A work trip to Birmingam to attend the Annual Apprenticeship Conference  at the ICC - where I was presenting a workshop along with my line manager - afforded a couple of opportunities to fly our MINI3 Pro, the first being in the evening after a short walk from the hotel to the Centenary Square.

The temperature was about 1C, and the Centenary Square was pretty deserted, so after affixing 3 strobes I had an 8 minute flight, which yielded the footage included...

Although I have flow the MINI3 Pro at night before, this location was close in to many obstacles and buildings, and when turning - even in the slower cine mode - the angular rotation appeared to cause some blurring - possibly the shutter speed set toolong due to the overall brightness - which meant some of the footage was not useable...

Lesson learned, moving forwards any night flying in similar circumstance will mean turning the drone very slowly to prevent the issue on other footage..

Sunrise the following morning gave me a second flight oportunity, which wil hopefully be edited in the next day or two..

Looks fantastic.  

DAFlys Posted at 2-28 01:50
Looks fantastic.

Thank you... Learned a lot about flying in a night time city scape too, I think I can do better next time

Looks pretty amazing in the night lighting.

Blériot53 Posted at 2-28 02:27
Looks pretty amazing in the night lighting.

Thanks... its been on my to do list for a while, think I can improve on it though..

Albion Drones Posted at 2-28 02:29
Thanks... its been on my to do list for a while, think I can improve on it though..

It never looked that attractive when I used to pass through in connection with work

Lovely night cityscape footage.    Night flying does bring on a few extra challenges for the pilot.  

Looks great to me, super clear and much detail.

DowntownRDB Posted at 2-28 04:57
Lovely night cityscape footage.    Night flying does bring on a few extra challenges for the pilot.

Thanks... yeah, a few challenges... Need to try this at a few other locations too though I think.

2sticks Posted at 2-28 14:57
Looks great to me, super clear and much detail.

Thank you

Albion Drones Posted at 2-28 22:25
Thanks... yeah, a few challenges... Need to try this at a few other locations too though I think.

You're most welcome.  Never hurts to get some more night flying practice in and get some more impressive footage at the same time.

Looks brilliant with all the lights

Codgerzh2 Posted at 2-29 07:46
Looks brilliant with all the lights

Thank you... it was an interesting place to fly

That's a different environment, but I like it!

Montfrooij Posted at 3-17 10:06
That's a different environment, but I like it!

Thanks... it was worth the cold and very early start

Albion Drones Posted at 3-17 10:29
Thanks... it was worth the cold and very early start

You're welcome. I would say so!