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Dependent on camera model and environmental conditions. Once all done I use the remote to start and stop recordings.For information about using the Smart Remote with other GoPros, see gopro.com/help. Once lined up in the correct angle I remove the LCD and line up the next camera etc. I did when I had a single camera, but once I purchased more I find it much easier to use the LCD BacPac to line up my cameras and check a preview etc. I actually very rarely use the GoPro app now.

This was all just feeding my obsession with flight.' And then drones appeared on the horizon for the Newcastle man. And you do stunts, and fly them in pattern formations. 'As I got older and was working and had a bit of money I started to build the bigger ones with petrol engines where you could only fly them at a club.

'As hobby evolved into drones, they didn't fly very well when we first got into it around seven years ago,' he says., 'I was on the forefront there. Wakeman was keen on the challenge drones presented as they started to appear in the market (and in the skies). A 2020 report by Deloitte for the federal Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications, estimated that drones and their services could be worth $15 billion by 2040, targeting agriculture, construction, mining, government services, ecommerce and recreation. The Civil Air Safety Authority, which regulates the industry, said since it updated its rules and regulations in 2016, more than 6000 had registered their intention to obtain a commercial drone pilot's licence. But the industry took a giant leap forward in the 2010s as the technology improved.

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'First Person View means we have a camera on board that transmits video. 'The drones that I fly and have been building for years are called FPV drones - first person view,' he says. But Wakeman's headstart on the hobby, and his own customising techniques, have kept him ahead of the game. Wakeman laughs when recalling those first efforts to make a drone: 'We would take electric airplane motors and run an individual speed control to each one and then use a very basic, I guess today's equivalent, of your 'raspberry pi' circuit , like your little control board, with a gyro out of your mobile phone, and then we would program them and they didn't fly very well at all.' Nowadays, retail stores offer a wide range of drones, mostly AP (aerial photography). The tiny high quality action cameras with video editing software revolutionised recreational and professional adventure videos, growing with the market along parallel timelines to drones.

And another camera, which livestreams video back to him. So the whole flying experience is very surreal.' Wakeman's technique utilises two cameras on the drone: an HD (high definition) camera, which is in a GoPro. We see what the drone sees, like we're in it.

'It's a very steep learning curve. 'I get a lot of people who've seen my videos and want to get into this,' he says. His passion, combined with his skill level developed over time, has made him a pioneering expert in a very young field. Right now, he has eight drones he uses frequently for shoots, with another dozen within reach he can use if needed. He's lost hundreds of aircraft and drones over the years, all part of the learning process. 'Basically my drones are racing drones with a GoPro on it.' Counting his experience with remote control airplanes and helicopters, Wakeman has thousands of flying hours.

You do not need a licence to fly one. Whereas the faster drones, which are up to a kilogram, can do up to 200 kilometres an hour.' Anybody can buy a drone. The small ones are very safe, because the propellers are protected by guards, and they can fly at walking pace up to 80 kilometers an hour. They range from micro drones, weighing about 200 grams (battery included), which are about half the size of the palm of your hand and can be flown indoors for commercial shooting, up to a kilogram for the faster FPV drone, and on up to a bigger one with eight motors and a cinema camera that may weigh up to six or eight kilograms ('It's getting very popular within cinema now, so a lot of directors are using the FPV drones for action shoots,' Wakeman says.) 'The smaller ones, I call slow drones, where you need to move through a space, to say do real estate shoots,' Wakeman says 'or, if you want to do an interesting shoot, like a recent one the bowling alley where they were flying through the front door and fly around people and stuff. You would build things from scratch and you would find problems when it would drop out of the sky, it was very difficult to keep them flying.' There are more options on the market all the time.

That's definitely a niche skill.' It doesn't happen overnight. That's when you can really create what you want. 'You get to a skill level where you don't have to think about what you're doing and you can concentrate on just disconnecting from your body and enjoying the flight. Wakeman offers: 'It's probably an important thing to know: the barrier to entry, I guess it's a rite of passage to learn to fly these things. Somewhat like video games, not only does it take time to practise and refine your skills, there is probably an innate sense of how to operate the controls that may determine your success. But, it's definitely buyer beware when it comes to learning how to fly one.

No big deal.' Wakeman's distinctive style is absolutely captivating: High-speed flight at low altitudes. Worst case scenario is you might lose a drone or have to repair a drone. 'When you disconnect from your body as well there's no fear of getting hurt. A bit of courage there as well. 'And that's where it comes from.

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'You are looking for that fantasy of flight, to give people that feeling that they can fly. 'My videos aren't sped up when I'm flying fast over the coastline, that's in real time,' he says. He's shot hundreds of drone videos, plus commercial work. Jumping from Newcastle beach into the harbour and alongside a moving ship and back around Nobbys headland. Coming out of a cave at sunrise.

Now, it's a creative tool where I can give people that fantasy. It just started from racing and the fun of just building something that could fly like that. 'It's a creative tool for me.

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