Drone and new drone authorizations in Las Vegas

It’s been a few months since a post, and I keep saying that I need to continue to post more; but life itself has just continued to get busier and busier. There is some good news though. As we mentioned earlier in the year, we got authorization to fly drones at night nationwide in certain airspace. So, naturally we’ve done a few different jobs with night flying since then and they’ve come out beautifully. One of the more recent authorizations we received was one to fly down on the Las Vegas strip, only .91 miles away from the runway at McCarran Airport, which is in Class Bravo airspace. This is huge, because I don’t think anyone else had received the same authorization as of this posting. Expect to see some great things coming up for drone flights!

Don’t worry, the still photography and other ground production is still within our business plan, it’s just that the drone stuff has been blossoming even further and caused us to focus a little more on getting legal and safe aerial shots for our clients. We’ve also added a new drone to the fleet, almost half taking a step back considering our other stuff we have, but decided to get a DJI Phantom 4 Pro, and I love it.

Now, obviously there is tremendously better stuff we’ve already been flying for drones (Matrice 600 with Arri Mini or RED) or some of our other larger systems for major productions, but the Phantom 4 Pro, at least for small scale use has some incredible imagery. It has a 1 inch full frame sensor that just sucks in light, along with a 20 megapixel still camera that captures some beautiful shots, it really has a place with the rest of the drone fleet for specific shoots.

For drone productions in Las Vegas and around the world, we’ll always choose the right drone to carry the camera or the capability you need. I’ll leave you now with this shot I took with the Phantom 4 Pro.

September 11th Memorial – Filmed with DJI Phantom 4 set to Disturbed Sound of Silence

Every year Palms Mortuary does a special memorial for 9/11 victims by displaying a flag for each victim. There were 2996 flags displayed. Each flag has a note card with a name of a victim written on it. This was a honor to be able to film this with my DJI Phantom 4 drone, a truly humbling experience. Please take a moment and watch the video, and remember all those lost that day.

InterDrone

Just finished up another year at InterDrone, one of the premiere drone conferences here in Las Vegas. This year it was held at the Paris hotel down on the strip, unlike last year when it was held at the Rio. I must say, this year wasn’t that impressive as far as the companies there. The focus was naturally on hardware that a lot of people were selling; such as new drones for companies to buy, new batteries, new simulators and new training. Other than that, there wasn’t much of a WOW factor from anyone.

One thing that was particularly cool was a product from Epson (yes the printer company) that was an augmented reality display glasses, much like Google Glass. The glasses allowed you to keep the drone in Line of Sight (LOS) but also have an overlayed FPV view for you to see the video. Epson had teamed with DJI in order to get the app working properly together and overall it was a great product. Brother (yes, the sewing machine and printer company) also had their own attempt at a display piece, with a small device that flips down over just one eye and gives the video to that one eye. This was not as impressive and overall I was not a big fan of that product.

More to come on some other bits of technology out there and different projects I am currently working on.

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