Thank you! It was an amazing show - it is every year thanks to Petronas AMG. The crew were young and inexperienced I feel, hence the panic. Thanks for watching. I appreciate it. I've been enjoying your videos! 👍👍
Hey, People flying drones over firework displays can endanger the firing crew as well as the drone itsself, I'm one of the pyrotechnics that fired this show and I am (along with at least one of the other members of the firing squad) also qualified to fly drones. My daytime job is working in Film and TV in the camera department so it's an area I'm very clued up on. It's not just about the equipment sometimes, if there are signs up which say don't fly drones then there's usually a reason for it. It's impossible to know what is a 'safe distance' to fly above such large scale fireworks due to the fact that someone flying a drone doesn't know what kind of pyrotechnics are rigged for the display and even so, pyrotechnics are unpredictable. The drones that night were flying much too close to the firing area, a much safer place to fly them would have been much further back behind the audience allowing for the general public, the firing squad and the drone to be in a safer position. Further to that, hopefully the people flying the drones have learned two valuable lessons - about the exposure levels needed in camera to compensate for the initial explosion of a display category fireworks and that big fireworks look better from further away, especially on video 😂 Safe flights everyone 😊
I absolutely agree with you. I would never fly above fireworks. My point here was - from the ground - myself and others were saying they were nowhere near the firework themselves. They didn't fly into the display. The ground isn't that big and our group moved around, you could see better where they were and they were around the perimeter. It is of course illegal to fly over groups of people and I saw one of the two drones' TOAL positions which was outside the field, on public land. They took it up, flew it high from the off and around the display. The organisers were young Cadet volunteers who (as the police and security said in my conversations after the show) hadn't seen anything like this before - hence the panic - maybe an initial briefing of this as a possibility would have settled them. My son (who wasn't recording) heard one young girl say "Oh my God, I'm panicking!" on the PMR. Unlike other local shows, there were no flight restrictions in place above the event so I suggested they change that for next year to deter or stop over-flights. From what we could see, there were no direct over-flights of the fireworks, they were around the perimeter and not over the crowd. Thank you very much for taking the time to comment. A very interesting insight here Gemma! 👍👍 I also agree - SAFETY FIRST - in every situation!
Nicely captured and the firework show looked amazing. Did they really expect drines not to be flying? Well done
Thank you! It was an amazing show - it is every year thanks to Petronas AMG. The crew were young and inexperienced I feel, hence the panic.
Thanks for watching. I appreciate it. I've been enjoying your videos! 👍👍
Hey,
People flying drones over firework displays can endanger the firing crew as well as the drone itsself, I'm one of the pyrotechnics that fired this show and I am (along with at least one of the other members of the firing squad) also qualified to fly drones. My daytime job is working in Film and TV in the camera department so it's an area I'm very clued up on.
It's not just about the equipment sometimes, if there are signs up which say don't fly drones then there's usually a reason for it. It's impossible to know what is a 'safe distance' to fly above such large scale fireworks due to the fact that someone flying a drone doesn't know what kind of pyrotechnics are rigged for the display and even so, pyrotechnics are unpredictable.
The drones that night were flying much too close to the firing area, a much safer place to fly them would have been much further back behind the audience allowing for the general public, the firing squad and the drone to be in a safer position. Further to that, hopefully the people flying the drones have learned two valuable lessons - about the exposure levels needed in camera to compensate for the initial explosion of a display category fireworks and that big fireworks look better from further away, especially on video 😂 Safe flights everyone 😊
I absolutely agree with you. I would never fly above fireworks. My point here was - from the ground - myself and others were saying they were nowhere near the firework themselves. They didn't fly into the display.
The ground isn't that big and our group moved around, you could see better where they were and they were around the perimeter.
It is of course illegal to fly over groups of people and I saw one of the two drones' TOAL positions which was outside the field, on public land. They took it up, flew it high from the off and around the display. The organisers were young Cadet volunteers who (as the police and security said in my conversations after the show) hadn't seen anything like this before - hence the panic - maybe an initial briefing of this as a possibility would have settled them. My son (who wasn't recording) heard one young girl say "Oh my God, I'm panicking!" on the PMR.
Unlike other local shows, there were no flight restrictions in place above the event so I suggested they change that for next year to deter or stop over-flights.
From what we could see, there were no direct over-flights of the fireworks, they were around the perimeter and not over the crowd.
Thank you very much for taking the time to comment. A very interesting insight here Gemma! 👍👍
I also agree - SAFETY FIRST - in every situation!