Given that it is now a compliment when somebody says you have the attention span of a goldfish which suggests that you have an intention span of at least five seconds, I need to make sure that people stumbling across my flying videos have an option of viewing shorter videos. Mine are normally created for…
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On a Sunday flight a few weeks ago in my ultralight aircraft from MKT Airfield to Delissaville Airfield, I crossed the Blackmore River flying over Greenwood Island. I do this almost every time I am heading west to Dundee or Bynoe Harbour… but this day I saw something a little different. A sunken vessel. At…
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Long slow flight out to Gunn Point to test out my GoPro 13 with Max lens providing 177 degrees field of view – hence the video name. The camera showing the scenery without me in it is the GoPro 13 and the camera on the wing is a GoPro 11 set to hyperview which is…
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My name’s Mark Christie and I fly a drifter ultralight aircraft out of MKT Airfield near Darwin, the capital of Australia’s Northern Territory. I’ve been flying, filming and taking photographs of remote locations for over a quarter of a century. As the Pilotographer, I take any opportunity I can to find an interesting place to…
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Okay, this is my longest (recorded) and slowest flight yet… At one point off the Eastern end of Indian Island I tracked further east to get a photograph of the entire island’s length, my ground speed was about 15kts. As I turned west to track up the island, suddenly my ground speed was 90 knots.…
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While I Google and try to find out how to use my multimeter to detect a short circuit in my drifter (finding information using CoPilot was quick, but finding the actual short circuit will take longer), I decided to take some time out and share a video of a flight that I took a little…
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Well that’s the million-dollar question. On the weekends when I’m flying my ultralight over the blue waters around Darwin I looked down and see the many fishing vessels dangling a line or maybe dropping a crab pot into the waters hoping at worst a snare meal for the evening and then further up the scale…
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Greetings! Today I want to share with you my amazing experience of flying over some of the most stunning and unique landscapes in the Northern Territory. Even though I have flown this lap before, each flight offers a different visual spectacle along with the chance to witness something new or seldom seen. I took a…
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In the dry season, the waters surrounding Darwin turn into a turquoise blue. Although the horizon is hazy with the smoke from bushfires of this time of year, the waters change from an impenetrable jade green into a clear turquoise blue which allows me to see all manner of fish swimming below the surface. During…
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It is fitting that I am taking photographs of this suburb from the air as Zuccoli is named after a famous Territorian and aviator. Guido Zuccoli, known as a famous aerobatic and warbird pilot along with his engineering skills. He made the Territory his home in the late 60’s. Here are some photographs of this…
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