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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What to Ask a Drone Operator Before You Hire One
Commissioning aerial photography, a roof inspection or a solar survey means buying the legal basis of the flight as well as the imagery. UK drone regulation changed completely in 2020, and the old shorthand no longer describes anything real. This is a plain guide to the four documents a professional operator should be able to produce on request, what each one actually permits, and the site-specific paperwork a properly run job generates before anybody takes off.
When a Solar PV Thermographic Survey Can Actually Be Flown
A solar thermographic survey only produces usable evidence when the array is generating properly. IEC TS 62446-3:2017 sets the minimum at 600 W/m² in the plane of the array, and sun elevation, sky stability, wind, wet panels and a curtailed array will each close the window on their own. This post explains why those conditions decide the data, and why a survey flown outside them tends to return a false all-clear rather than an honest result.
Hot Spot, Bypass Diode or PID: Reading Solar Panel Thermal Signatures
A thermal image of a photovoltaic array records surface temperature, and surface temperature is a symptom rather than a diagnosis. This post sets out how the signatures are actually read on an operating array: what a single hot cell suggests, why a uniformly warm third of a module points somewhere entirely different, how potential-induced degradation gives itself away by geometry, and why severity under IEC 62446-3:2017 is framed with caution rather than asserted from one temperature figure.
