Aruu Falls Flyby

AIRVŪZ STAFF NOTE : Top content creator and pilot Scientik built his own drone to create this video of the amazing Aruu Falls in Uganda, in the heart of Sub-Saharan Africa. The falls are situated in the northern part of this landlocked country, not far from the border with neighboring Sudan. Uganda is far less well known than some of its neighbors, namely Kenya, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As you'll see from the video, it has beauty which is fully the equal of other countries in the region.

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This is one movie from the archives (2014), done with DIY drone, together with my friends. However, it was so epic I wanted to post it here! :-)
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So you can build a drone. You can fly a drone. In your backyard. In your neighborhood. But how about this: pack it up, travel to Africa, find a little-know waterfall called the Aruu Falls, traverse a river, hack out a helipad with a machete, and then fly a drone. Now that is insane! But we did it. With intense humidity, water everywhere, rocks to scramble -- but it was a blast, as you can see.

Alas, not all adventures have happy endings. After our escapade at the falls, we visited the second-largest waterfall in Africa, Murchison Falls. One of the rotors on our drone unexpectedly shut down at 150s altitude, and we are sorry to say the quadcopter now rests at the bottom of the Nile among the skeletons of hippos and crocodiles.

MUSIC: Moby, Lie Down in Darkness (via http://www.mobygratis.com)
SECOND CAMERA: Vojta Duchoslav
BIG THANKS: Michal Ruda, Jan Duchoslav, Muna

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This is the setting used:´
3DR ArduCopter Quad C Frame
FC APM 2.5
3DR GPS uBlox LEA-6 Board
Motors 880Kv AC2836-358
ArduCopter ESCs 20 Amp
APC Propellers 11X47 SFP Style or Graupner Elektro 11"x 5"
Rx Graupner SJHott (2.4 GHz)
no FPV, completely line of sight! ;-)