It's illegal, but if you could...?

[Bad Santa]

OK, we know it's illegal to fly in National Parks, for instance, but if you could fly and record ANYWHERE, where would you go?

I would want to fly around Yosemite, especially El Capitan. Check out some climbers, fly over the edge like flying off a cliff.
Or all through the Arches in Utah. That would be cool.

 

[AMann]

I saw a full-sized Ingenuity test model demo flight at JPL, and think flying Mars would be cool. No rules there except physics. I was pretty sad about Ingenuity biting the dirt. That was an amazing UAV. The controllers had a fun job, including the ones who drive the rovers. They even use VR googles and can walk around a full-sized 3D virtual image of the rovers with a 3D image of the terrain around it that was taken by the rover itself. Cool stuff!

 

[Yorkshire_Pud]

Yoe

Yosemite, especially El Capitan.

and the grand canyon would be a must in my book.
I want to do a Spock like dive lol

 

[Cafguy]

Yosemite, especially El Capitan.

I have dreamed of Filming someone as they climbed El Capitan. Never gonna happen. That or the Grand Canyon.

 

[Yorkshire_Pud]

I have dreamed of Filming someone as they climbed El Capitan. Never gonna happen. That or the Grand Canyon.

Playing in my mind, I wonder if it would be legal to throw a camera off El Capitan that had the following attached
1) a large parachute ( to give a slow decent rate )
2) a tracker, to aid finding it, and
3) a pair of motors & props to stabilise yaw ?
It wouldn't be flying as such but I guess the authorities would find some way of making it illegal.

 

[Cafguy]

Climbers actually hammer hammocks and little tents into the rocks and sleep on break as they climb!!! Not in a million years would I try it BUT its wild to see the little tents nailed to the Side of El Capitan.

 

[Yorkshire_Pud]

Climbers actually hammer hammocks and little tents into the rocks and sleep on break as they climb!!! Not in a million years would I try it BUT its wild to see the little tents nailed to the Side of El Capitan.
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I think they do it on other climbs too, I don't think I'd fancy sleeping on an open platform where the drop was lethal lol

 

[chadCO]

Imagine a country where defects in power don't preemptively punish everyone for the sins of the few.

 

[Rchawks]

So, if we could pair a flight simulator with a headset and controller to Google Earth we'd be in there...

 

[Bad Santa]

Climbers actually hammer hammocks and little tents into the rocks and sleep on break as they climb!!! Not in a million years would I try it BUT its wild to see the little tents nailed to the Side of El Capitan.
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And those climbing, and sleeping in those hammocks, would absolutely love to see some aerial footage of them doing exactly that.

But, alas.