Last week I took a trip over to Scammonden Water to try and get some drone footage for a project I'm working on. However, things didn't quite go to plan.
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Good morning welcome to today's video
and welcome to Scammodden water
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if you've ever driven a car between
Manchester and Leeds on the m62 you
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probably have seen this place but
probably never been here and that's the
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same case for me but I've always wanted
to come here and get the drone out and
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see if I can get some nice nice shots of
the landscape and the water see it
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that's the plan but I've got here and
it's extremely windy so I'm not sure if
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I'm gonna be able to get the drone out
but yeah let's give it a go but yeah
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usually the first thing I like to do
before I even get the drone out is that
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I've got an app called drone assist and
essentially it's an app that kind of
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allows me to see is any reason why I
can't fly the drone in this area yeah so
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I'm just gonna open up the app at the
moment here we are over down here at
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Scammoden water and currently here
we've got off the ground hazards which
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is the motorways the m62 is actually
goes over the dam so I'll make sure that
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I stay away from that it looks like
there's no other aircrafts gonna be in
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the area or if a drone uses so I'm now
going to create my own flight report and
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then that's probably the area that I'm
gonna fly in and so duration probably
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for the next hour or so and and
then just go drone videography and then
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create flight report and then the other thing I
probably want to check is the weather to
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see how how strong the wind is whether
it's gonna be rain the next hour or so
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and so yeah one app I like to use is
called dark skies I think it's quite
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accurate so yeah it looks like this is
gonna be rain but at the moment I can't
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see any rain and so I just need to be
aware of that if I scroll down in look
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at the wind, so the wind is going to be
about 18 miles an hour
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now the Mavic air which is a drone that
I use
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be kind of used up to around about 22
miles per hour so the wind is looking
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strong
so what I'll probably do is get the
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drone out set it to a probably a height
of about 10 meters see what the drone
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and how its reacting and then yeah kind
of take play it by ear to make sure
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being safe obviously I don't want the
drone to come out of the air while it's
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over the water or anywhere else any
other people so now you get on the car
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and head down to the water's edge see
what the winds like down there and if
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it's favorable and I think it's okay
then I'll probably get the drone out and
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yeah try and get some footage
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I've made it down to the water's edge
and it's actually not too windy down
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here but you're already here there's
that absolute drone of the motorway in
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the background I'm gonna try and find
somewhere that's a little bit
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secluded away from everyone kind of them
yeah safe place to get the drone out as
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I said I'm gonna kind of test to see if
the wind isn't too bad and then yes
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everyone get some nice shots of the
reservoir
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unfortunately yeah although I found a really good location it looks amazing
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on this occasion he seems as though it's
little bit too windy to to get any
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decent shots the drone was this going
like this and even though on the
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camera it was keeping like the gimbal
was doing this job I just didn't feel
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confident having it above the water so
yeah I'm gonna start walking back and
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towards the car when I first got
down here the wind wasn't too bad but he
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seems to have picked up quite a bit and
the waters there now there is choppy and
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so yeah maybe if I walk back along the
water maybe the wind will die down and
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I'll be able to get the drone back up
again
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unfortunately the weather conditions on
the other side of the reservoir were
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exactly the same I managed to get the
drone in the air for a couple of minutes
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and capture a couple of shots got about
ten meters and it was just wobbling
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around all over the place so for it
wasn't worth the risk and yeah brought
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it back down to ground these things
happen I guess I'm in the process of
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getting my permission for commercial
operations so hopefully in the new year
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I will be able to use more drone footage
in my client work that's it for me today
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I'll see you in the next video