| Nate Weaver |
August 12th, 2005 12:25 PM |
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Originally Posted by Charles Papert
Most importantly, please be careful...there are quite a few accidents every year that involve helicopter shooting. I myself don't do it any more, after two incidents within a few years of each other: an associate of mine survived a crash, but his production partner didn't. And a privately owned helicopter that I was imminently due to fly in (had gone for a short test flight the week before to make sure my Steadicam would rig up properly) crashed after hitting some power lines--the pilot and his two passengers didn't make it.
Sorry to be a downer, but this does happen. Garrett Brown (inventor of the Steadicam) has said that he has lost 7 friends due to helicopter accidents.
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All the heli shoots I've ever worked on (not that many, only 3) we used a Tyler middle mount, but the pilots were relatively new to "driving a camera".
I know heli pilots are generally more on their game than pretty much anybody you'll meet (they have to be, otherwise they don't last long), but at least once I got the sense that the pilot was a ltitle distracted by the novelty of what we were doing, which was air-to-air shooting with another heli. I would think distraction=danger in that world.
Patrick, you think this ever enters into the equasion with arial shooting? |
