BBC One Show – Alex Jones – Mother of All Challenges
We were hired to film aerials for the BBC One Show’s Mother of All Challenges with Alex Jones for Sports Relief at Dorny Lake which was the venue for the 2012 Olympic Rowing.
The shots were used for the event promotion and general advertising, One Show and Sports Relief social media campaigns. Full details about the challenge can be viewed on the Sports Relief website here: www.sportrelief.com/news-and-tv/mother-of-all-challenges
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Hiring a Drone Operator: The Paperwork to Ask For, and What Each Document Proves
Booking a drone operator means checking paperwork, and the names have changed since most checklists were written. This piece sets out the three families of document a client should ask for, registration, authorisation and insurance, what each proves, and the pairs most often confused: an Operator ID against a Flyer ID, an Operational Authorisation against the retired PfCO, a GVC against an A2 CofC. It closes with the paperwork that belongs to your job rather than the operator.
Where a Drone Takes Off From, and Whose Permission That Needs
Every drone flight starts and ends on somebody's ground, and an aviation authorisation gives no right to it. This post explains the two separate permissions a professional flight needs, the air and the ground, what happens when the client controls a site but does not own it, why the best vantage point is often next door, why public land and roads are rarely the answer, and how Drone Media Imaging settles the take-off point during planning rather than on the day.
Booking Drone Work: Where the Legal Responsibility Actually Sits
Hiring a drone operator does not make you responsible for the flight, but it does make the choice of operator yours. Since the rules changed at the end of 2020 there is no commercial drone permission as such: the category is set by the risk of the flight, and work on a working site normally needs a Civil Aviation Authority Operational Authorisation held by the operator. This article explains who carries what, and what a competent operator should show you before flying.
