Invercargill Snow Day - Aerial Footage, 18 September 2010

[walkin999]

AWESOME!!!!



[CarAudioGuy21]

what helicopter is this ? or is it a Quadricopter thing?

[ghost141000]

i also live in invercargill hahahaha

[TheSouthernmoonlight]

Saw you get a good write up in the paper this morning... good work.

[MusikChik21]

how the freak did you do that? lol its so kwl

[MSargeNZ]

@dingles615 the gopro is on it's way..

[benokobi]

Awesome I from invercargill as well

[Crintingnut]

Brilliant!

[Snow4everBHV]

How often does Invercargill gets a snow cover in each winter?

[seargentbrainfry]

imagine following a cop chase with one of these run while streaming it to a mac mini hooked up to a projector and controlling the tricopter from your couch. dreams are free...

[MSargeNZ]

@seargentbrainfry It was sounding good until the bit that involved an apple product.

[ZannessaMileyCRulsz]

kind of sad. two natural disasters happening right after each other just a week between each of them start. mother nature must hate our country. (NZ)

[J05CM]

Reminds me of CoD :[

[toocoolforu]

WTF you guys have snow in september??!!! The suicidal rate must be high ....

[MSargeNZ]

@toocoolforu It's up there, I don't think it is as bad as Timaru, my hometown , even though it has high sunshine hours.. Statistics fail.

[toocoolforu]

@MSargeNZ btw its a great video! i just woke up when writing the other comment...

[wackowillie]

Im moving down to Invercargill from Whangarei at the end of the year... I CANT WAIT! Wooooooooo love snow.

[littlebittyjulz]

@wackowillie LOL dont get ur hopes up too high! last time was like 15 years ago!!!

[wackowillie]

@littlebittyjulz Thats all good, Queenstown few hours up!

[shakenama]

Awesome video! - Just wondering...how much did the Tricopter cost? (greetings from warm sunny Virginia!)

[S8in6sic6]

princess street eh mint i live round the corner, reckon we can fly your camera round girls high hah!

[MSargeNZ]

@S8in6sic6 Thats a bit seedy innit.

[MrBinkz]

Marcus FTW!

[teddiesgomeow]

NEW ZEALAND RULES

[Odenkay]

WOW, that's awesome. Nice range too.

[canyoncarbon]

That was awesome footage mate! I have been to invercargill only once, beautiful town, can't believe this is the same place! Looks more like a town from siberia!

[nzecureuil2]

mean unit!

[mitchellavenged]

lloyd your a babe

[mediamechanics]

very cool, what type of camera is mounted on the heli?

[816sprint47]

Very very cool!!!

[realgud]

and all we had in dunedin was a little flakes of snow :( JEALOUS!

[Deinacrida]

Very very impressed...big snow fall too . Thanks

[Mudwiggler]

Well done this pretty good

[2000Ajjet]

Cool! (sic) Great to see what my old hometown looks like...good work!

[timseft77]

Thats Frickin wicked mate. I want one, Where do i get one..

[timseft77]

Thats Frickin wicked mate. I want one, Where do i get one.

[morf114]

each to their own.

[Faisal600]

Thumbs up to the annoying noise of the tricopter. Couldn't you just turn off the mic ? nah good job bro.

[morf114]

man that noise !! imagine if real life helicopters sounded this bad!

[MSargeNZ]

IMO the noise of the real thing is better than some cruddy music that only 1% of the population will enjoy. I found it interesting to listen to what goes on with the motors in flight.

[TheSouthernmoonlight]

@morf114 From a distance it just sounds like someone running a chainsaw. I was wondering why someone was running their chainsaw yesterday morning.

[tomhardwick1261]

Thans realy cool. We didn't get much snow in Bluff

[allan8233]

well done .

[Orbiter007]

The pilot sitting in this plane must have been drinking. I think Buzz Lightning would love you if he knew you had one of these, he would be flying it to save all his friends in Toy Story. I really wanted to see you dive bomb it in thru a window....eh eh. Keep up the good work

[eazyep]

@Orbiter007 buzz lightyear..

[camy205]

I hate living in Paraparaumu.... We only get rain.

[MSargeNZ]

@camy205 Usually that is all we get too :)

[murrymurrymurrymurry]

@camy205 thats coz its called paraparaumu LOL

[TRVABL]

what sort of range are you able to get with it.

[MSargeNZ]

@TRVABL Range is Line of Sight, seveal kilometers with the 2.4ghz radio link, the trouble is since I am still controlling the model visually from the ground I am limited in how far away I can fly. Before anyone asks.. YES video downlinks are a viable option and YES I am looking at implementing a system in the near future to allow me to pilot the model from such a down link. I have had interest from local camera crews to do some more filming in and around the town.

[TRVABL]

@MSargeNZ  Yea because i was thinking about steaming from a cellphone using 3g network but want to shure on how to steam it to my PC

[MTERM775]

great video footage!

[wevenhuis]

Nice. one of the more practical uses of such technologies.

[teawheoterangi]

Well done. Thanks for posting.

[blufifi]

that was brilliant....good thinking guys... :)

[Alimick1]

Well aren't you a clever clogs then! Well done. Have posted to Facebook.

[kiwirock30]

how much weight can it lift?

[MSargeNZ]

@kiwirock30 I'd say comfortably 200-300g.

[kiwirock30]

@MSargeNZ cool. chris mentioned he spoke to you to out of interest too. did you just use a still camera set to video? or does it have a video transmitter on board? i've played with 2.4ghz transmitters for video that do about 5-10KM's that are under 100gms. cool idea though.

[MSargeNZ]

@kiwirock30 It's a Panasonic SDR-S7, pretty cruddy video camera by today's standards. No downlink at present, flying all visually from the ground. The video downlink that i get will be 5.8GHz, since I am using 2.4 GHz for my radio link and I want to mitigate the risk of any interference. All devices on 2.4 are supposed to work together but video transmitters have a nasty habit of smearing their signal across half the useable band! Best not tempt fate huh? Useable range should be 1 or 2 KM

[kiwirock30]

@MSargeNZ Yeah analogue video uses much narrower but stronger spectrum power. Modern one's are reasonably good though, usually module based and well shielded/filtered. My 1000mW one doesn't interfere at all with my 4KM wi-fi link. The Wi-Fi link only has 20dB S/N so if it was to cause a problem it'd be dead. Older senders only output about 10mW. Bumping up the TX remote power would certainly help.

[studogs9281]

sweet video

[frankenlips1217ad]

that was great!!! love your work



[kapitman69]

That was awesome, what kind of camera did you use?

[MSargeNZ]

@kapitman69 it's just a small panasonic Standard Definition handycam, records to a microSD card. There are much better cameras available such as the GoPro HD.

[rumblechick]

That;s flipping crazy! Can't believe I'm missing the snow!

[j0wled]

That is one flat city. But I love it.

[arachni2005]

awesome to see an aerial view. thanks heaps for sharing

[LinnBoy]

Noice!

[koweesmum1]

Neat video! Enjoyed a bird's eye look around the old stamping ground - SGHS and Rugby Park

[HSDDTS]

Sensational!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GEHDunedin]

Excellent work!!

[newschch]

Hi there - great pics. TVNZ would love to use some of your material for tonight's news. Can you contact Megan 0272205989. Thanks :)

[ryanhellyer]

Awesome video. I tried visiting your site but it appears to be down.

We don't have anything like that much snow here in Dunedin.

[ryanhellyer]

@ryanhellyer It appears to be up now :)

[Tama2toes]

Great view from Princess Street, awesome!

[littlebittyjulz]

@Tama2toes Princes St =D

[phatputer]

That.. is stunning, go invers