As we were in the area, it would have been rude not to take a return visit and at least fly up the Cwmorthin Waterfall cascade, and with the weather being so perfect, plus the AVATA2 being so stable, I was able to get nice and close in…
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Really loved the fly up the falls, nice and smooth. Looks like the perfect day for it as well.
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Thanks, yeah, perfect conditions, I flew 4 places in the area, this being the last, and using the very last of the batterys…
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Having seen this it is making me want to go and get a goggles setup.
I have a simialr, but nowhere near as large waterfall close to me and I’ve tried to capture it with the standard remote on my Mine 3 Pro but I’m just too jerky/random with my movements.
Partly comes from not recording whilst flying enough. So my question is: do you find it easier to control the movements with the FPV side?
BTW: nice capture. I enjoyed that.
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Hi Stuart,
Thanks for the kind words…
Yes, this type of flying is much simpler with goggles, a ducted drone and - in this case - a Motion Controller. The goggles allow you to see more and be in the moment, head tracking allows you to set the camera position, and the MC is instinctive to do. I don’t use EIS in drone, instead I run it through Gyroflow in PP, which helps to smooth it further, but the key is smooth flying and minimal corrections…
AVATA / AVATA2 are perfect for this type of flying - I have a few similar videos on YT like this Fairy Pools on Skye, Blackbird Flight in Tongue, Aber Fals in Wales, always fun to fly low and close in…
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Thanks for the response, very useful… will head off to investigate 
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I mean, I’m not saying that sort of waterfall hasn’t got every right to be unreasonably pretty, but that one’s just showing off…
Polarising filter to bring out the underwater detail? Brilliant, and I held my nerve this time (it’s only a video, she won’t crash, everything’s all right, nothing gonna hurt you, and… relax!).
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Lol, thanks… No filter on the AVATA2, just the bog standard camera, with a wee bit of underexposure set…
I was also holding my nerve, this was the 4th AVATA2 flight of the day, and was made with the last battery at 38% on take off, hence why it is an up and down flight with the quick turn at the end, the drone was wanting to RTH at that point, and I could see the power dropping as I was flying, so had to hold my nerve and not end up speeding up and making the footage unusable…
Thankfully it all worked out, apart from hubby catching his finger o the props when he hand caught it, hence his jump, but he didn’t drop it, so that is all ok 
2 more video from that location to come, but no close calls in them, one for Rhosydd Quary and one for the derelict Capel Rhosydd…
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