When you fly drones, you either fly visually by looking at the drone, or (if it is far away or behind something) piloting by the camera's view displayed on your Ipad. Now start shooting a moving target, and it gets tricky. After all, one doesn't want to scare the balloon's passengers or crash into the big moose.
First, however, we perpetual adolescents must be entertained by playing the burners:
Think of it as a Wurlitzer organ--with lights...
I've already put lots of clips of the balloons being filled and taking off (see earlier posts) and http://divexprt.phanfare.com/6956381 so I'll concentrate on those of maneuvering near the baskets. This morning there were three balloons. Captain Gary hustled his into the air first, and drifted away fairly quickly.
I had to get on the other balloons now! Captain Ron was piloting the second balloon to get off, and didn't mind the drone buzzing his ship:
Captain Casey had a wedding party. a pleasant way to celebrate, on a gorgeous, calm flying day. Good luck to the bride and groom!
A very worthwhile practice session!
Of course, flying a thousand feet over water from the platform on the far right of this webcam feed across and down to the waterfall on the left will be challenging. At that distance, I won't see the drone and do the entire round trip by piloting the camera http://shoshonefalls.tfid.org/live.htm
The best water flows are in June or July when they open the dam upstream. I tried to hit that on my last visit. They kept broadcasting radio spots that said: 'We'll be opening the dam any day now,' but never did.
September is late, but still pretty if I can get close to the main flow.
We take what they give us...
