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Hi all UK based Phantom pilots, a friend and I are attempting the first non-stop and outright fastest round Britain in a sailing dinghy world record in June 2019. We’re planning to make a film of the attempt using a number of onboard gopro’s, however what the film really needs is lots of stunning top quality drone footage, ideally something similar to the Volvo round the world footage that was achieved.
A another friend who recently lost his Phantom 3 to an Osprey in the Caribbean, suggested that I write to this community to see if people would be interested to get involved. I should say now that unfortunately we don’t have any budget to help you out financially, as we barely have enough for the challenge itself, sorry, however the film we’d be putting together will be put out to social media and entered into the Banff Ocean Film festival in 2020, so who knows your footage could be shown on the big screen all over the world!
The three areas of the country that would be easiest for getting drone footage of the boat from land are: the Southeast England from Beachy Head around to Great Yarmouth, then the Southwest of Cornwall from the Lizard to Lands End and then most of the West and North coast of Scotland, where we’ll be passing close to numerous head lands.
The challenge should take around three weeks starting on the 7th June 2019 but we won’t know which point of the country we’ll start at until around 5 days before the start but we will have a yellow brick GPS tracker device onboard sending updates of our position to a publicly available site every 30mins and combined with consultation with our onshore team we will be able to make some estimated ETA’s for you but be aware you would need to be super flexible and track us remotely to time your positioning on a headland.
I don’t want to dress this up too much, it goes without saying that anyone keen to take this on needs to be a bloody good pilot primarily, able to shoot film worthy footage from the top of a headland at any daylight hour of the day in potentially windy conditions, willing to fly their drone over water in hazardous sea conditions as well as being super flexible and organised, still keen?!...
We’re totally open to suggestions from you guys as a community, we’re guessing that it would be most practical as a co-ordinated approach with three or four pilots from the different areas of the country mentioned shooting their area as opposed one person that would be up for joining our onshore team and following us around with for three weeks, but up to you guys, we’re not really sure how keen people would be to do this? We will be conducting sea trials in the SW area during April/ May 2019 if people wanted to use the opportunity to practice.
If you’d like to find out more about the project please go to our website at: nipegegiroundbritain.com and if you have any questions or suggestions please don’t hesitate to get in touch through your forum or at my work e-mail address at [email protected]
Kind Regards
Will
A another friend who recently lost his Phantom 3 to an Osprey in the Caribbean, suggested that I write to this community to see if people would be interested to get involved. I should say now that unfortunately we don’t have any budget to help you out financially, as we barely have enough for the challenge itself, sorry, however the film we’d be putting together will be put out to social media and entered into the Banff Ocean Film festival in 2020, so who knows your footage could be shown on the big screen all over the world!
The three areas of the country that would be easiest for getting drone footage of the boat from land are: the Southeast England from Beachy Head around to Great Yarmouth, then the Southwest of Cornwall from the Lizard to Lands End and then most of the West and North coast of Scotland, where we’ll be passing close to numerous head lands.
The challenge should take around three weeks starting on the 7th June 2019 but we won’t know which point of the country we’ll start at until around 5 days before the start but we will have a yellow brick GPS tracker device onboard sending updates of our position to a publicly available site every 30mins and combined with consultation with our onshore team we will be able to make some estimated ETA’s for you but be aware you would need to be super flexible and track us remotely to time your positioning on a headland.
I don’t want to dress this up too much, it goes without saying that anyone keen to take this on needs to be a bloody good pilot primarily, able to shoot film worthy footage from the top of a headland at any daylight hour of the day in potentially windy conditions, willing to fly their drone over water in hazardous sea conditions as well as being super flexible and organised, still keen?!...
We’re totally open to suggestions from you guys as a community, we’re guessing that it would be most practical as a co-ordinated approach with three or four pilots from the different areas of the country mentioned shooting their area as opposed one person that would be up for joining our onshore team and following us around with for three weeks, but up to you guys, we’re not really sure how keen people would be to do this? We will be conducting sea trials in the SW area during April/ May 2019 if people wanted to use the opportunity to practice.
If you’d like to find out more about the project please go to our website at: nipegegiroundbritain.com and if you have any questions or suggestions please don’t hesitate to get in touch through your forum or at my work e-mail address at [email protected]
Kind Regards
Will