Filming a beach arrival in my raft with Mavic Pro Drone

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Nov 2, 2022
I'm just approaching a beach that I'm going to land on and I want to film it from the drone.
So that's my Pelican case which I have a 3DR silo in which didn't behave very well so I didn't use
it much. Most of the time I used my two Mavics which were always reliable and I was also able
to launch them on very rough seas and they always managed to initialize and I managed to land them
safely each time which was pretty hard work. They were pretty quick to set up. That's a polarizing
filter that I've got on. I left that on most of the time. I had two mobile phones for backup.
That's my old iPhone 5 which I was happier to get wet if it happened. There's no phone
coverage out there it's just purely for the drone control. So you've got to be very careful when
launching from a moving boat because as soon as you launch the drone wants to stay still
but it appears to you like it's shooting off in the direction so you've got to be as still as you
can or launch it so you're prepared that it's going to try and stay still and predict which
direction that's going to be so it doesn't fly into your face. All right so we're just
right so it's ready to go. I've got GPS just check a few pre-flight things batch of percentage
controller percentage 79 it's all good I focused it I'm recording now and now I'm going to launch it
and I'm not drifting.
So I want to get a shot of me coming into this campsite let's focus it again what a beautiful
beautiful campsite it's gonna be it's gonna be unbelievable wow just gimbal all right let's get
going yes we're recording I'm gonna make it active track me active track unfortunately I can't show
the DJI app view because there wasn't enough memory on my phone so as I'm doing this I'm
scanning between the task at hand which is driving the raft and secondly driving the drone so I'm
trying to look through the viewfinder shield the sun that's coming onto the screen think about what
shots I might need try not to bump the sticks so I have erratic movements and also try and just
enjoy how nice it is because it's a pretty spectacular spot and I've never been here
before I can see that it's you know a beautiful beach it's going to be a nice calm night I'm
probably gonna have to worry about the crocodiles and there was actually a croc that lives in there
I ended up having to string my hammock up a boa tree it probably wasn't quite out of the reach
of the crocs but I just felt a little bit safer than just lying flat on the ground there
there's nobody out in these places just completely remote you don't see boats or anything it's just
beautiful you don't know which shot you're going to use when you're doing this you just try and get
as many as you can and hopefully get something at the end that you just go yeah I love that little
three to five second take and you capture that.
