Sky News - pointless heli-cam

[G-ARZG]

Hate to take work away from fellow Ppruners, but does Sky News really need to launch a Twin Squirrel for live aerial shots of LHR T5 on the flimsiest reason that our beleaguered Chancellor is landing there? Not as though they'll even see him disembark. Rant over

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Shame they didn't have someone on the plane to record his reaction to being sacked mid-atlantic.......

[peterperfect]

The BBC had a helicopter up following his Range Rover when he left number 11....its not exactly livecast-worthy news unless he got accosted en route to his flat.

[Ascend Charlie]

I was asked by a TV channel to organise a landing on a sports oval, inside Sydney control zone, under the flight path for Rwy 16, and do it quickly. Luckily the Senior Terminal Area Controller (STAC) was a friend of mine, so with some begging and pleading, he said he would squeeze me in between arrivals, but I had to be right on the button, and it was going to limit how many requests I could make from him in future.

No worries, says I, and between the Jumbos, we made it into the sports ground. I expected to find some VIP, but they simply wanted to interview some football player who had a sore ankle. Grrr...

[Mike Flynn]

Camera drones are the way forward for this sort of work, Silent to those on the ground and much more stable in terms of fixed footage.

[DBSomeone]

And a sure bet cheaper to run too!