Drone filming on the very edge of a geofence no-fly

Regents Park cycling on the Outer Circle

I was tasked with making a film of my cycle club on their weekly Saturday morning laps of the famous London park before winter fog hits us.

The issue facing me was the geofence for central London starts north of the park and covers all of it (ot just because the American Ambassador’s residence is close by).

But not quite all of them park is exclusion zoned. I zoomed in on the dji CAA  map to discover a sliver of road on the east side some 700m falls just outside the exclusion zone. I positioned myself there to capture the bikes as they came round the corner. Tricky filming as the low overhead trees and poor signal did make the shoot nerve wracking!

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