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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Torn between watching the Boxing Day cricket test and going for a flight, I decided to go for a flight. Not before I saw Konstas make an impressive debut at the MCG. Because the cricket is on and I don’t want to cut into your prime cricket watching time, I have compressed this video into…
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It wouldn’t be Christmas in Darwin if I didn’t go for a flight and despite it being 35 degrees and with a humidity rating guaranteeing if you stand too long in one place, a puddle of sweat would form at your feet, it is the best time to fly for a couple of reasons. The…
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Normally my Gopro cameras are mounted to the wing or underneath my nose of the drifter aircraft. On this particular flight I hand held the Gopro 13 and took some footage in the form of a selfie as I was flying in and around clouds over the Blackmore River. The perspective is very different from…
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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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Having given away the interesting aspect of this particular flight through the title, I will describe some of the photographs that I took on my way out to this popular location. With the dry season upon us, sea waters clear up giving great visibility of sea life below as I fly over. This compensates for…
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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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The monsoon is upon us and because I can’t go flying. It gives me an opportunity to reflect on a flight that we did during the wet season a few years ago. A lot of folks think that flying in the Northern Territory especially in the Top End is best done during the dry season.…
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