How high can you go? Extreme altitude test

[Ian in London]

Okay.. mischievous title to get the drone police in a tizz
Having a great time on my trip in the mid-US and took advantage of an amazing place to fly in Wyoming. Got to well over 11,000 feet and got some amazing footage. I thought the battery would wear down pretty quick in the thin air but was on still 50% after 15 minutes.

Anyway, here's the video; amazing views and all good fun...

Cheers,
Ian

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[Top Hat]

Nice shot Ian.....awesome

 

[RickyMavic]

Great video editing, great spirit, great mini movie, but not the right intentions or mind set.

Don't encourage extreme altitudes. Droning is such a great hobby, with such few rules really being implemented.

Don't be that guy man. Hope to see more videos, at/or below 400ft/120m

 

[Top Hat]

Great video editing, great spirit, great mini movie, but not the right intentions or mind set.

Don't encourage extreme altitudes. Droning is such a great hobby, with such few rules really being implemented.

Don't be that guy man. Hope to see more videos, at/or below 400ft/120m

He took off on 10.9K mountain, he just actually climbed maybe <50'.

 

[RickyMavic]

Man you're right. I apologize.

I've been awake for a little over 40hrs at this airport and I kinda caught myself in this vicious cycle finding people just flying drones as high as possible or within a mile of an airport or into restricted areas on purpose.

In that case I stand by my great mini movie, editing, and spirit!
(The headline is a little misleading tho, just something to consider for next time)

 

[Eric17]

Lol at the title, drone police are going to pass out. Nice video man looks great, have you ever been up to wa state? Tons of epic places to fly!

 

[mavicQ]

title is misleading....

 

[Ian in London]

title is misleading....

Title is mischievous! Of course I can't fly up to 11,000 feet, but I had great fun taking off at 10,947 feet and, more to the point, the air really is thin up that high and I wanted to know how the Mavic woudl handle and last out....

Thanks guys; all good fun....

Ian

 

[Roo]

Okay.. mischievous title to get the drone police in a tizz
Having a great time on my trip in the mid-US and took advantage of an amazing place to fly in Wyoming. Got to well over 11,000 feet and got some amazing footage. I thought the battery would wear down pretty quick in the thin air but was on still 50% after 15 minutes.

Anyway, here's the video; amazing views and all good fun...

Cheers,
Ian

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Stunning, mate! Well done.

 

[Crocket1158]

Amazing footage....

 

[jasonbrooks]

Great footage Ian, nice one man! Bummer about your dodgy gimbal too - these things always happen at the worst moment, I live in fear of the first time I get mine out of the bag only to find that it won't cooperate. I guess on the bright side at least you were able to pick up a replacement relatively easily! BTW how did you transport it on the plane out of interest?

One note/question. At around 4:45 in your video, I noticed a problem that I've seen in a couple of my own vids. The cloud shadow sweeping the foreground has a very jerky movement to it. I assume that this is a weakness in DJI's codec implementation, as they've assumed that the image won't be changing that dramatically. Do you have any insight into this sort of issue, and ideally a fix?!? Cheers man, jason

 

[Ian in London]

Great footage Ian, nice one man! Bummer about your dodgy gimbal too - these things always happen at the worst moment, I live in fear of the first time I get mine out of the bag only to find that it won't cooperate. I guess on the bright side at least you were able to pick up a replacement relatively easily! BTW how did you transport it on the plane out of interest?

One note/question. At around 4:45 in your video, I noticed a problem that I've seen in a couple of my own vids. The cloud shadow sweeping the foreground has a very jerky movement to it. I assume that this is a weakness in DJI's codec implementation, as they've assumed that the image won't be changing that dramatically. Do you have any insight into this sort of issue, and ideally a fix?!? Cheers man, jason

Thanks Jason

I've looked at the video; I don't fully know what's caused that. I shot it at 30fps but I agree it looks more like 10 fps on the video for the cloud movement, but everything else looks smooth... Some of my other videos (eg Action Shots) has a lot of fast moving footage and this doesn't seem to be an issue there, so I'm not too sure.
Cheers
Ian

 

[Former Member07122019a]

Man.. great video. Sheesh.. I want an 11k foot mountain in my backyard!

 

[webvan]

Nice !
Hey I remember driving up that pass 23 years ago, driving into Cody I think ;-)