We will fly 3-5 missions (depending on whether you sign up for pre- or post-tour sessions) with each mission visiting three locations including: 1) abandoned barns, farm houses, grain elevators; 2) giant windmills; and 3) fields of wheat, barley, canola and the equipment to farm it. This is some of the most beautiful country in the US. The cost of the basic tour is $995 not including meals and lodging.
We have an extra-cost half-day pre-tour session for inexperienced pilots where we will review drone and controller settings, and practice flying one- two- three- and four-axis flight and cinematography maneuvers. The cost of the pre-tour is $125 not including meals and lodging.
We offer an extra-cost full-day post-tour session for intermediate to advanced pilots focused on waypoint flight as a technique to improve cinematography and create repeatable missions. The cost of the post-tour is $199 not including meals and lodging.
Elma, WA is the home of two unfinished nuclear power plants known as Satsop 3 & 5. There are two giant cooling towers each about 400 feet tall. And there are two reactor buildings, one finished, one never completed.
The unfinished nuclear power plant structures themselves are closed to the public, but it's possible and legal to fly around them and even into a couple of them.
Is this safe? Yes. The plants were never fueled nor operated, no radioactive material on site and no radiation hazards whatsoever.
We typically organize this as a day-tour. We drive to the site after traffic dissipates. It is also possible to fly near the Capital complex in Olympia and we often end the day with a nice dinner overlooking Puget Sound. The cost of the tour is $495 not including food.
*** For Advanced Pilots Only ***
Flying among the skyscrapers of a big city is beautiful in an industrial or architectural sense. Colors. Reflections. Paralax views of buildings moving in contretemps with each other. Maybe it's marinas. Or golf courses. Or, you name it.
These images will stun your friends. They will engage your social media followers like nothing you've shown before.
But there are unique challenges to flying in cities. Controlled airspace and LAANC approval, usually. Interference with satellite and WiFi reception. Flying near (but not over) people and vehicles. If your pilot skills are up to it, we can make it happen.
This is typically run as a dawn half-day tour, or a night-flight tour. And because of its nature, and pre-tour research and planning required, the tour is a bit more expensive than our other tours. We'll work with you but think $595.
You are passionate about drone photography and videography and so are we. If you're interested in a custom tour, contact us and we'll design and conduct one just for you. Let us know where you want to fly, what you want to shoot, what the purpose of your photography or videography is ... and we'll work with you to design something special, just for you.
Single day. Multi-day. Anywhere in the US that's legal. We'll do the research, the planning, the arranging. We'll meet you there and fly together.