My first video worth sharing. Hope you enjoy.
Garden of the gods is Colorado Springs city parks which are out. If you study a map you can fly on the boarder and still get great shots. The area around Blackhawk is probably good. It is in a national forest. Check out Nevadaville, Colorado's most well preserved ghost town.What places in Colorado are definite NFZ other than National Parks and Airports? I plan to go there soon and hope to use my bird. From this list what is most likely to be not flyable for legal reasons:
Mt. Evans
Pikes Peak
Black Hawk
Garden of the Gods
Estes Park
Any suggestions what to see over there? or what to avoid?
Will appreciate all info...
I got lucky with a calmer day. I got a few warnings but didn't notice any issues. I don't fly over 20mph. It is usually calmer in the mornings that high up but it's a total crap shoot, you are almost touching the jet stream at 14000'.Nice job! That's the kind of flying I'm doing this summer around Rado. How was the wind up there that day? I fly around Summit County all the time and you have to pick and choose what days you can fly. Especially at the tops of the mountains!
Thanks,Too many to name but State parks are out as well. For open spaces you have to check county by county. I love deer creek canyon but it is Jefferson county open space which is out. I just flew at Devils Head this morning which is on national forest land which is always fine to fly in. Just do your research.
What a beautiful planet we live on... I'm not religious at all, but watching that video does make even the most ardent skeptic question how lucky we are to be here.
I did notice some artifacts just above the ridge line as you flew the circular POI route - almost like the heat off of a BBQ grill. Was that in the original? Or is that just an effect of compression by YouTube? There's just a ton of pixels changing with each frame, and I'm wondering whether the MP got a bit overwhelmed.
Also, did you happen to watch the prop RPM? I'm curious if they had to spin faster at 14k feet...
So you consider your chosen form of recreation is somehow supperior to others. Tough!As a climber that gets around this state, i will say drones are absolutely annoying. Why? As a climber i enter a remote environment to enjoy nature. Then, out of nowhere there is what sounds like a thousand bees hovering over you. We risk our lives to pursue our passion, intensely focused on what is in front of us whilst these "pilots" hover over our heads so they can capture our adventures. This is extremely distracting and dangerous. I was on Mt. Evans this past Saturday doing the sawtooth, and I really wish I had a shotgun to shoot these bastards down.
As a climber that gets around this state, i will say drones are absolutely annoying. Why? As a climber i enter a remote environment to enjoy nature. Then, out of nowhere there is what sounds like a thousand bees hovering over you. We risk our lives to pursue our passion, intensely focused on what is in front of us whilst these "pilots" hover over our heads so they can capture our adventures. This is extremely distracting and dangerous. I was on Mt. Evans this past Saturday doing the sawtooth, and I really wish I had a shotgun to shoot these bastards down.