Great thanks! So a wider tube in certain sections leading to greater lateral movement in the curves? Would the flow of the water slow slightly in these sections too?
Volcano Bay Construction & Preview Discussion
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Just wanted to give my 2 cents regarding this drone video, sorry for the late post but I've been on a cruise for the last week and stayed off the interweb.
You're dead on - rules explained below.
I own a few drones and use them for personal-use videography, if I wanted to charge people money to shoot aerial photography/video for them I would need a commercial license. I so happen to be studying for this right now (about halfway through the course) so here's my thoughts on the video:
Awesome video, I appreciate the cojones he had to do this because this particular flight was definitely NOT legal.
The most obvious reason is because of his flight over I4 which is illegal for drones (cannot fly over highways).
Also because of what @Teebin mentioned:
There's no way the pilot can ensure the drone would pose no hazard to the construction workers on the steel of the volcano (imagine if a gust of wind/radio interference causes the drone to lose control and crash into a worker, causing them to fall). Just to show how often this occurs, here's a video of one of my crashes that was later determined by DSLR Pros (where I buy/service my drones) as to be radio interference; this is playing a round of Disc Golf in Iceland, radio interference happens around 0:23 seconds.
Pretty simple.. cannot fly over people not directly participating in the operation of your drone.
Another reason why the drone operator should be worried, Universal Orlando straight up says drone's are not allowed over it's property:
"As a private property owner, you have the right to that column of air over your property," said Haggard (Aviation Attorney), who indicated airspace below 500 feet is generally considered to belong to the landowner. The FAA requires traditional aircraft to fly above 500 feet in public airspace.
So yes, this guy could be sued by Universal Orlando.
I've thought long and hard about bringing a drone up to shoot some stuff from areas off property (like the high school's field behind Universal), but even still that's risky.
Finally, here's the rest of the footage from our Iceland trip. I'm putting it here (shameless plug) because someone mentioned something about the quality of the camera/drone, but this could have been easily shot with a drone that costs less than a grand and a GoPro black (4k video). Some parts are of our family but feel free to skip around to the drone parts. I'll put it in a spoiler since its not extremely on topic,
Feel free to bump up the quality to 4k.
For those wondering, I named the drone baymax because it was our white-colored buddy who followed us around everywhere.
For those wondering, I named the drone baymax because it was our white-colored buddy who followed us around everywhere.
Beautiful video! What had your family in Iceland of all places?
Wow, they are already installing glass in the two oval towers... mercy. Universal's accountants and buyers must be going bonkers.
Again, terrible quality because it's off my phone and the hall lights were too bright but looks like construction is ongoing into the night.
Not sure if already posted, but when I booked Sapphire Falls for 2017 via Virgin Holidays they stated on website 'Early Park Admission† to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter™ and Universal's Volcano Bay™ (opening 2017)'
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We travel with our best family friends a few times per year and we caught Iceland towards the beginning of whats now an all-out tourist blitz on the country. It's an amazingly beautiful place (especially during the summer) with close to 24 hours of daylight (it never really gets pitch black dark). It has hundreds, if not thousands, of stunning waterfalls, glaciers, volcanos, lava fields, martian-like landscapes one minute and glacier lagoons the next. By far our favorite trip ever. If you love the outdoors/nature, highly suggest you go. They're opening a new route from Miami for only $200 round trip starting in April, already planning a return trip.
Fun fact, Miami-Dade county has almost 8X more people than the entire country of Iceland.
Again, terrible quality because it's off my phone and the hall lights were too bright but looks like construction is ongoing into the night.
If you press your phone camera against the glass you will be able to capture just what you see outside of the glass, and no reflections from the inside
Another view of the glass that's been installed.
It seems like every piece is having work done this morning as well as work on the tram path from the car parks.
lol!... It will most likely open before that!
Heh, you just gave me a sore neck trying to look at it sideways.
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The early admission is to be expected. It's the Express pass that is not automatically included at SF.
It's so awesome to get to physically see this every single day. My lunch breaks consist of me usually watching construction.
Work is well under way on the roof that looks like a restaurant. There is one to the side that looks like the entrance. Glass is now getting installed on the east side CB tower.
It looks like all the volcano molds are in place surrounding the side facing the wave pool.
Latest video from Midway Mayhem (Facebook post below video for the photos):
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