Brookwood Military Memorial

This seems a logical option as a local site to me to get a video and I do have some great ideas about what I want to create. However, it seems I have set myself a challenge as having been there twice I have totally failed to get the footage I want. Mainly, as I want a fast and rapid fly through the long entrance between trees, but I can’t get the drone to fly straight as it constantly goes off course and into the trees. There have been high winds both times, and I will be able to get there but it needs the right conditions.

Then having gone to take some footage, I realised I need to properly recce the site as there are varying trees and hazards, so I need to plan a route and properly map out my intentions, had wind warnings and a “loss of vision” sensor today, so it all felt dodgy and uncomfortable. All felt too risky today and I decided to abort.

This let me to take some still images just before I landed instead.

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Some great photos.
We went on one of the CWGC tours there earlier this year, and it was brilliant.

Thanks - appreciated. I have a plan with this, and it will be a video.

Its just going to take longer than planned. I underestimated the site and potential, but I can’t wait to get what I have in my mind done. Tricky site, but hopefully, will be a fab video.

If you fly on a calm day, so any leaves in any trees aren’t moving and any clouds are largely static, you could fly in tripod mode and speed it up in post.

Nobody would know :shushing_face: