One of our primary locations is 15,000 ft above sea level. The shot in that location: the unit would have to be flying down a hill at about 5 ft above grade following the leading edge of a 100 ft long Buddhist tapestry as it's unrolled by a team of monks. Other than the downward angled flight path, and a reverse 180 camera angle, mid path, the fairly constant 5 ft above grade is essential. This will be on a large budget 4k feature documentary with a week or more of aerial shooting in India and Tibet. Anyone with high altitude experience interested who thinks they could pull this off at that height please contact me for more details. David davidcATallinonefilms.com
Hi David, sounds like a tricky one. Flying uphill is easier but I assume its a slow flight otherwise the prop wash might prove a problem. Anyway just a thought would a powered and rigged gyro stabilised remote cable camera not do the trick?
Just remember that the 11-13 kg payload with Red/Alexa at that altitude is going to equal nearly 20kg or more at sea level. We did some at 14,000 and it was murder on everything( lipos, motors, escs, wires, connectors) with a 5K shoot. I wanna see the BTS on this... pls
Brads correct, the air will be thin. You will need high c rated 6s batteries, probably run 4x 5000 or 8000 batteries in parallel which should get ya 5-6 min flight times, extra motors/bearings, larger or high pitch props, ESC of 60amp min, all main wiring 10/12awg, minimum EC5 connector, X8 configuration for easy traveling & wind, 70amp/2000watt charger to keep up, portable 2000watt geni, an epic with EF mount and canon 24-70 IS running off a 3300 4S to keep weight down and have a back up rig with backups of backups.
Good day David sent you a PM & email. Let me know if your still looking for someone to assist. Sincerely, Jason info(at)jasontoth.com