Drone Pilots for Hire

Located in the between the two "forks" of Long Island, New York, a bit over 100 mi. (around 175 km) due east of New York City, the quaint village of Sag Harbor (which is actually split between the towns of East Hampton and South Hampton) has evolved into a prime summer getaway for the rich and famous.  In addition to multi-million dollar homes, that means multi-million dollar yachts, and lots of them.  Check out some of the Sag Habor resident and visiting yacht fleet in this excellent drone video by AirVuz contributor HamptonsDrone.  

Check out this excellent drone video of Doak Campbell Stadium, the home of the Florida State University Seminoles, by top contributor Bumble Bee Productions.  It's based on the school's campus in the state capital, Tallahassee. Opened in 1950, for nearly seven decades it's been the home field for one of the most storied college football programs in history.  The stadium, which seats just over 80k fans, is known as the largest continuous brick structure in the USA.  It's now technically called Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium.

Italy based denisbarbas is one of the top content creators in the AirVuz community; he was a Drone Video of the Year Finalist in 2022 and 2023 and has won the Drone Video of the Week/Month contests multiple times.  He is also one of a growing number of aerial videographers who have branched into the world of first person view (FPV) flight, which provides opportunities to create shots that can't be made with gimbal-stabilized drones.  In this reel, he shows what he can do with DJI's Avata 2 drone.  

Top AirVuz contributor haussmannvisuals earned a Drone Video of the Week Finalist spot for this piece he created filming a training session of a high altitude rescue team working atop the Germany's tallest skyscraper in Frankfurt's financial district.  The 56 story Commerzbank Tower stands 850 ft. (259 m) above the city's streets; with its antenna spire (featured prominenty in the video) the height rises to 985 ft. (300 m).  When it was completed in 1997, it was the tallest building in all of Europe until 2003.  

Multiple DVOW Winner dronesantana007 brings us this stunning drone video of the Vietnamese port city of Da Nang.  One of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing travel destinations, Da Nang is located about midway down Vietnam's long eastern coastline, at the mouth of the  Hàn River.  The video opens with stunning shots of the Lady Buddha statue in the surrounding Marble Mountains, the tallest in Vietnam.  Other highlights include the Sun Wheel, a massive Ferris wheel in the Asia Park, the city's beachfront hotels, river bridges, and more.  

Multiple Drone Video of the Week Finalist timoksanen bings us this outstanding Fall drone video from the Lapland region of Finland.  It was filmed near the village of Hetta in the municipality of Enontekiö, an appendage of northwestern Finland which is sandwiched between the territory of Sweden and Norway.  Popular with cross-country skiers, this is some of the most remote territory in continental Europe: there's an airport nearby which has seasonal flights, but off-season the nearest airport is about a two hour drive away.  

Top AirVuz contributor panvelvet won the Drone Video of the Week award with this fantastic demo reel.  Brilliantly edited, the reel features a mix of shots of urban, landscape, and action scenes from around the world, primarily China.  Movie quality sequences range from shots of a climber scaling a massive skyscraper in Shanghai to a shot of the famous hot air ballooning scene in Cappadocia, Turkey.  At the :32 mark, you'll see a partially submerged submarine, and at :47 there's a shot of a high-speed train racing past a pagoda.   

In this fantastic piece, AirVuz contributor and first person view (FPV) drone pilot CragLord gives us an FPV tour of the Chugach Mountains in Alaska.  The video was filmed over Chugach State Park, which covers about 775 square mi. (around 2k square km) in the south-central part of the state, just east of Anchorage.  It's home to the Chugach Mountains, whose peaks rise up to about 13.1k ft. above sea level (around 4k m), and have some of the world's highest annual snowfall totals.  The Chugach form part of the Pacific Coast Ranges.  

Multiple Drone Video of the Week Winner davetke2002 brings us this stunning drone video from the famous Serengeti of Tanzania, Africa.  The video was filmed over mingling herds of zebra's and wildebeest, both of which are native only to eastern and southern Africa.  The Serengeti covers about 12k square mi. (around 30k square km) in the northern part of the country.  It is the home of the world's largest annual animal migration, which typically encompasses over a quarter million zebra's and roughly seven times that many wildebeest.