The Devils Pulpit as a moss covered ravine North of Glasgow. It's really something special and looks like something from Jurassic Park.It is very high sided and has overhanging trees and that is the problem. Let me explain.
Twice 2 years ago i tried to film the Devils Pulpit by drone and twice i failed. Extremely annoying after well over an hour drive each way. First time it was packed with foreign tourists and people like myself out for the day as it's popularity had grew since being in TV shows like Outlander as a mystical location. So i couldn't fly with people around.
So i went back 2 weeks later at 7am on a sunday morning. Yes!! Totally dead and i have it to myself. I had hoped to film in tripod mode, however when i got down there my Mavic Pro could only find i think 6 satellites so no GPS mode. So i had to use Atti mode which i had never used before, but after that long a drive i wasn't not gonna do it.
So i had wellies on and am literally walking in the stream 8ft behind my drone and flying very slow. Suddenly my drone just goes to the right for no reason and i lose control. I believe the prop wash hit off the left hand wall and pushed my drone to the right. It smacked into the right hand wall and was covered in mud and moss, but thankfully ok. In a state of shock and at that point not sure if my drone was ok i packed my kit and went home. I was there literally only 15 minutes.
I have posted some pictures of what the ravine looks like and also my crash video. It you look at 24 seconds the drone heads to the right and that is not me controlling it.
Anyway that was 2 years ago and this week i saw on another TV show they had used the location as part of the show and it made me want to have crack number 3. There are very few drone videos of the pulpit, but most are above and looking down. I wanna be a very slow Luke Skywalker in the Death Star Trench. So anyone have any suggestions or ideas how to film in a narrow 50ft sided ravine and keep the drone from crashing?
Thanks
Devils Pulpit Crash 2018
Twice 2 years ago i tried to film the Devils Pulpit by drone and twice i failed. Extremely annoying after well over an hour drive each way. First time it was packed with foreign tourists and people like myself out for the day as it's popularity had grew since being in TV shows like Outlander as a mystical location. So i couldn't fly with people around.
So i went back 2 weeks later at 7am on a sunday morning. Yes!! Totally dead and i have it to myself. I had hoped to film in tripod mode, however when i got down there my Mavic Pro could only find i think 6 satellites so no GPS mode. So i had to use Atti mode which i had never used before, but after that long a drive i wasn't not gonna do it.
So i had wellies on and am literally walking in the stream 8ft behind my drone and flying very slow. Suddenly my drone just goes to the right for no reason and i lose control. I believe the prop wash hit off the left hand wall and pushed my drone to the right. It smacked into the right hand wall and was covered in mud and moss, but thankfully ok. In a state of shock and at that point not sure if my drone was ok i packed my kit and went home. I was there literally only 15 minutes.
I have posted some pictures of what the ravine looks like and also my crash video. It you look at 24 seconds the drone heads to the right and that is not me controlling it.
Anyway that was 2 years ago and this week i saw on another TV show they had used the location as part of the show and it made me want to have crack number 3. There are very few drone videos of the pulpit, but most are above and looking down. I wanna be a very slow Luke Skywalker in the Death Star Trench. So anyone have any suggestions or ideas how to film in a narrow 50ft sided ravine and keep the drone from crashing?
Thanks
Devils Pulpit Crash 2018