5/7/15

Today we went out into the hills behind HPA to film Braithwaite's class. We followed them with the inspire, and filmed them exploring and reading. The scenery was really beautiful. The only issue was the wind: the wind had to be around 30mph. The inspire had such a hard time flying against it and at one point it couldn't even move when flying at full-throttle because the wind was so fast. Also, the wind made the drone work twice as hard, which drained the battery very quickly. We were only able to get about 7 minutes from each fully charged battery. We completely ran out of battery before Braithwaite's class was done, so we were unable to get the shots of them walking back to campus. Despite the heavy winds, the weather was beautiful and we think that the shots we did get will turn out nicely.