After waiting several weeks for the right combination of clear skies and clear schedule a crew of helicopter pilot, still photographer, and aerial DP finally lifted off from Manassas Airport enroute to Arlington. The mission was to gather fresh images of several real estate sites in Crystal City and Rosslyn. Our main goal was to illustrate the sites’ proximity to downtown Washington.

Most maneuvers were orbiting the locations at various distances and altitudes. The track shows our flight path that day. Some approach angles were shot with a chin mounted GoPro camera and with Alt Gobo’s Panasonic P2, operated by Peter Roof, was looking out the side door and using a crabbing maneuver. The side mount used the gyro-stabilized gimbal that is on a base that rotates. This low cost system makes for decent video at a fraction of the cost of heavy traditional systems.