Bonneville (Current Conditions) Aerial View

[RCKirby]

For those of you suffering from a lack of saline you in your diet...here you go!

Rest assured that the SCTA-BNI, Save the Salt AND Mother Nature are working hard you provide a great course in 2014!

To everyone that makes land speed racing so much fun...I salute you!

http://youtu.be/kBhKSj3qI_0

RCKirby

[donpearsall]

That was pretty cool video! Thanks for giving us an up-to-the-minute view of salt flats. Tell us what equipment you used to get the video.
Don

[N72727]

Many thanks for this fantastic video of the salt.

[stay`tee]

excellent,, for me it was the first time to see snow on Piolet Peak, ,,

[RCKirby]

It was shot with a quad-copter.  It was pretty breezy and thus the instability you see in the video.  What I thought was interesting was where the water had accumulated and the "dry" areas.  You can see pretty far down the course once elevation was hit.

RCKirby

[revolutionary]

Conditions at El Mirage (not so current)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByYMTi7T_x0

[manta22]

Wow, all I need to run at Elmo is a few wrenches and a copy of HRM! 

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

[BobDcuda]

Nice off-season view of the salt.  Thanks for sharing.

And I love that ElMo clip.  Talk about a "period piece", it's outstanding.

[sodbuster]

Sweet! Thanks for sharing, I have a friend that has this one & has been posting some pretty need video's with it.

http://ardrone2.parrot.com/

He picked it up from woot.com for $175.00

Chris

[Richard 2]

Conditions at El Mirage (not so current)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByYMTi7T_x0

That was cool to see the Eddie Miller Lakester Run on the lake.
Richard 2

[Phil Bennett]

It was shot with a quad-copter.  It was pretty breezy and thus the instability you see in the video.  What I thought was interesting was where the water had accumulated and the "dry" areas.  You can see pretty far down the course once elevation was hit.

RCKirby

Just out of interest, and I can't do this myself coming from the UK, but are there restrictions on using these sorts of gadgets during the racing?  Even a view from behind the public lines would be impressive and give a good perspective on the speeds being run. 

[jacksoni]

It was shot with a quad-copter.  It was pretty breezy and thus the instability you see in the video.  What I thought was interesting was where the water had accumulated and the "dry" areas.  You can see pretty far down the course once elevation was hit.

RCKirby

Just out of interest, and I can't do this myself coming from the UK, but are there restrictions on using these sorts of gadgets during the racing?  Even a view from behind the public lines would be impressive and give a good perspective on the speeds being run. 

Gotta ask permission from the FAA:  http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/washington-nationals-face-faa-penalty-for-using-drone-to-take-promo-pictures/ 

[donpearsall]

Actually on reading that article, you DON'T gotta ask permission from the FAA. FAA has no rules preventing their use, and the NTSB upheld that there are no rules.
I think the drones are a valuable video tool and I hope the FAA ignores them as they should.
Don

[Stan Back]

I know next to nothing about drones nor aircraft -- and now I'll probably prove it.

It seems to me that if an airplane can suck in a bird and be disabled, the same could be said for sucking a drone.  And I'd hate to run over one that stalled and fell while I'm doing 200 and it's trying to get a real neat shot.

That said, I spent a day at SpeedWeek last year helping a documentary crew whose drone-driver and photographer were getting some sensational images.

[jauguston]

I believe there is no restriction on their use except a 400' maximum altitude if their use is recreational and not for hire.