Golf CourseWe had a great time flying the Snoqualmie Falls Golf Course early Thursday morning. We captured some spectacular footage and look forward to producing a high quality video this fall.
The golf course is located right next to a community airport so we worked closely with the airport association to ensure that no one was flying during our recording. |
Lessons LearnedShoot a pic of the hole sign before flying the hole for logging purposes
Batteries - This took all 4 of our Inspire batteries and 2.5 of our Phantom 3 batteries SD Card - we filled up a 32 gb sd card on hole 15 Strategy: Lift off from the back of the tee box and fly the hole and then drop down to 10ft to shoot an arc from the back of the green |
Lessons LearnedHelps to have a pilot and camera op in two separate golf carts - 4 total people
Drivers need to be spotters and keep pace with the copter - give feedback on copter positioning and green placement Talk with maintainance about movers and sprinklers ahead of time We started at 6:30 am to avoid as many golfers as possible. The lighting changed dramatically by 9:00 am when we finished. |