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- Guys! What's going on?
Today, we're having a drone day.
we're actually out here
at Willow Race Springs, Willow something.
I dunno, it's a racetrack.
(drone whirring)
It's far away, drove about an hour and a half to get here.
That's basically how far out of Los Angeles you have to
go to be able to freely kind of fly some drones.
But, we're here with some professional drone pilots
and they're going to show me how much better they are
Than flying than me.
This is like my drone dreams come true.
This is, this is what we need.
I've been doing everything all wrong.
Gear truck with a platform.
Filming on the A1 right now, this is the A7S3
and Sony let us borrow this 200 to 600 millimeter lens.
And we're going to see if we can try to follow
and track the drones as they're flying.
Oh this is going to be great.
- $10,000 a drone.
It's always super relaxing to fly.
- [Woman] I'm stressed for you guys
(woman laughs)
- What could go wrong honestly?
- Oh gosh, please don't say that.
- It's only my camera, so.
My name's Jake, I'm from Drone Dudes.
We're an aerial cinematography company out of Los Angeles.
We specialize in any kind of remote cinematography.
So mostly drones.
Today, we're going to be flying
a couple of different drones.
We've got the Money Shot Mini, which Paul Nerc
is going to be flying.
He's a DRL world champion
so he's going to give that thing a proper workout.
That's the latest and greatest kind
of heavy lift cinema FPV drone.
It's carrying the Red Komodo,
which is like the tiny pocket sized red camera.
And he's going to be chasing around behind the motorcycles.
And then we're going to flip over to the inspire two,
which is like a more traditional cinema drone
and even Justine, I think, is going to get
in on the sticks on that.
- So do you think that you're going to trust me
operating that camera?
- Oh, definitely.
You've worked with a lot of cameras in a lot of tech
and this is no different.
- Yeah, I fly a lot of drones, just not FPV full manual.
Not ready for that yet.
Or maybe I am!
- We'll get there, Yeah.
Paul's the one to train you up, so.
- It's true.
We're out here at Willow Springs Raceway,
Drone Dudes invited me
out to come and fly their Money Shot Mini
which is a drone that carries the Recon Moto.
And we were chasing a couple
of awesome motorcycles across the track.
And I figured if you wanted to come and hang out,
you might as well come fly some drones
check out some cool bikes.
- For anyone that doesn't know,
do you wanna give a brief history
of like your FPV drone flying background
because, incredibly talented pilot.
- Yeah, so I started flying drones in 2014.
My in-laws bought me like a toy drone for Christmas one year
and I broke it immediately and I'm like,
I'm kind of an engineer.
I was a programmer at the time.
I was just like, I should be able to figure
out how to fix this.
So searched around, got a YouTube university education
in fixing drones.
And along the way, discovered drone racing.
Just like as soon as I saw it, I was like
I have to try that.
It is the coolest thing in the world.
And that took me around the world.
I got to go like all across United States, China, Germany,
United Kingdom and eventually became the 2018
world champion of drone racing.
So it's, it was, it was awesome year
and was so proud to have that title
because it gives me opportunities to come
out and tell more stories about drones
and drone racing and what it can do.
- It's so cool.
Well, thanks for the invite.
This is like the coolest thing ever.
I was like, Tyler,
We're gonna go fly drones with cool people, let's go!
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That was pretty freaking cool!
It's hat time.
- We're just gonna swap the batteries and we'll give you
the tutorial and if you wanna film that or whatever,
however you want to get it.
- Nice, I have my hat on, I'm ready.
- [Man] Are we ready? Let's do it!
This is called the Cendence remote from DJI,
it's kind of their like big, fancy inspire remote.
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- I feel pretty good, I mean I'm not piloting,
I'm just basically camera ops, so (indistinct).
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- [Man] That's perfect, you got him, you got him, hold it!
(man cheers)
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Legit though, anytime that you want to work with us like--
- Oh I'd love to!
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So much fun, I just, I love,
I mean I wasn't actually flying,
but like the whole, everything that goes
into flying drones, I just, I just love it,
It's just like such an exhilarating feeling
and it's so fun and just freeing.
It was actually great
because not having to worry about flying and just focusing
on kind of using the camera and piloting that part.
And I think I just got a job offer, so I'm pretty excited.
I wonder when I start.
So should I, do I start Monday?
I'm gonna come in Monday?
- Yeah, so I think, you know, Monday is good for us.
If it's good for you.
- Let me check my schedule.
I'm free!
- I mean, we have four shoots next week
so, the sooner you could start the better.
- Great! (laughs)
Dude that's it.
This was so much fun.
I love drones.
I love flying them.
I love watching people fly them and obviously being geared
with like the best of the best is so inspiring.
I'll put links in the description
if you guys want to check out all things Drone Dudes.
And be sure to check out Nerc's YouTube channel
because he does so much incredible content with drones.
Go check it out.
I'll see you guys later.
Thanks for watching.
See you in the next one, cheers.
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