Cold Weather and Altitude: How They Cut Your Drone’s Flight Time and What We Do About It
Cold weather slows LiPo battery chemistry. Altitude thins the air the rotors are biting into. Both cut flight time. Here is what that means for your shoot day and how we plan around it.
Why Camera Prep Saves Luxury Commercial Productions: What Almost Went Wrong on the YSL Libre Shoot
A burned-out gimbal, vintage Panavision lens motors stiff in the cold, focus rings that needed maximum torque. Here is what camera prep caught before the YSL Libre shoot stopped.
Night Flight Waivers for Drone Production: What They Are, How We Got Ours, and What It Means for Your Shoot
Night flight drone waivers require a separate FAA petition. Here is what our waiver authorizes, what it took to get it, and what it means operationally for your night shoot in Los Angeles.
What a Plan of Activities Is — and Why Your Drone Operator Should Hand You One Before Shoot Day
Most productions have never heard the term Plan of Activities. Here is what it is, why a professional drone operator produces one before every shoot, and what it means for your production day.
We Lost Our Home and Our Business in the Woolsey Fire. Then We Built a Service to Help Others Who Did the Same.
We lost our home and our business in the 2018 Woolsey Fire. Here is how that experience shaped the wildfire documentation service we now offer to homeowners and law firms across Malibu and Los Angeles.
