Recent content by cloudbuster

Ohary, not trying to hose you off but the cost is tied directly to what the market will bear. Maybe this market research will help: (1.) A chopper flight here in Texas will run you $1,200-$1,750 an hour. To that, the client must add the service provider's travel time and expenses, plus the cost...

Greetings from God's Own Wind Tunnel (West Texas, USA), and welcome aboard. Out here, between Fort Worth and El Paso, if we don't fly in the wind, we don't fly. Thus, to my eyes, six hours of flying time in a month reads like serious commitment. Would muchly appreciate seeing some footage from...

Woa. Didn't take long for this thread to veer down a dark alley. As to the video, nice neighborhood. Where was the footage shot?

Magnificent scenery. Safe to say we don't have anything like that in West Texas.

Impressive. I need to learn how to do something similar. Well done.

Okay, neighbors, just to get SOMEthing started, I down-loaded GoPro Studio edit software. In the tutorial, first thing asked of me is to import my video file and convert it. I don't know how. Worse, I can't find anything that looks like the screen shown in the tutorial. Advice anyone?

Bravo. A skillful pilot, combined with clever editing delivers a visually arresting video product. I aspire to the standard you just set for semi-suburban real estate aerial photography. Jolly well done.

Newbie Phantom II pilot here, beginning to capture semi-decent footage with my GoPro. Nexxxxxt ... I need to learn a software that will allow me to edit the file, lay down a music bed and such. I need an intuitive, dummy-proof software that is almost paint-by-numbers easy to use...

Chuckling again. Out here in the Dust Devil Capital, nearly every day is trash-bin day. Paper or plastic? No matter. It blows from pick-up beds with equal loft and destination.

This little thread seems to be organic, which as a mullet newbie I appreciate. While you continue to fly in free air space and I learn left from right, up from down, I hope you will continue to provide input. As a total rookie, I gain by your practical field field experience. I fly...

Am chuckling over here in God's Own Wind Tunnel. Your first three or four paragraphs (below) will require more study. I am anything but techie, so it startled my two sons that I even dreamed of plunging into the science of aerial photography. Am pretty much a raw rookie pilot, so I have zero...

Okay, BPatty, on your advice, I purchased the I.D. stickers from the outfit in Colorado. They should be here in a week. More problematic so far, however, is the GPS tracker. My online market research turned up a myriad of styles, priced at +/- $50 to $150. As you rightly point out, wind is an...

Appreciate your comments regarding aerial photography in real estate and oil/gas. Per your recommendation, I bought an extra battery and am learning to use the Black Pearl Fly Sight, which enables the pilot to see what the GoPro "sees" in real time. Or so I am told. Emphasis on the "learning."...

West Texas guy here, just getting started with a Phantom 2 and GoPro for aerial photography. Am eager to learn from those who have gone before, but living in Midland, travel and the calendar are significant issues. Advise.

In AZ, your path reads exactly like mine so far. Bought the GoPro camera just today. It's still in the box, so you know I have miles and miles to go before I am proficient. The bird has been ordered; it's on the way next week, so I'm told. That's when I plan to start terrorizing all the...