UHC - PORTUGAL
Senior Heliman
Location: LISBOA
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Hatim post here these oportunity mainly because he is with a lot of work in Dubai, and was unable to cover these job in the record time that costumer wanted to,...
Running my business as a professional for 6 moths and trying to make full live in these industry i have made all my best to catch the job and make the best possible work,.. First problem was that our blimp is also in use, so i have to rent another blimp and take my photo higher mount 2XR-AP mount from my glow heli and installed in the blim,... Its seems all easy but the problem is that we only had 2 days, plane tickes already in my e-mail,..and due to the dificults in getting the visa and an entry permits i passed 2 days traveling to Lisbon in order to get all ready in record time, so true time we only had the last night before travel. Packing all you need such as chargers etc,... for travel is realy a issue making our best we exceedd 16 Kilos of lugagge paying extra 375 euros in each direction.
In Portugal all family have to help, mother wife and camera operator me in bue in front of the blimp! We have filled the blimp with air to checj for leaks and also to install the cameramount.
Almost without sleeping we catch the flight to Frankfurt and then to Jeddah Saudi Arabia. After landing the temperatures were so hot. I tought that i can´t survive many hours,... you use to get 35 degrees at night and up to 50 degreees during the day,... harsh enviroment
Very well recieved and after a tipical and excelent Saudi meal with the costumer we have made by night a small visit to the place were we will take the shoots. It will be a beautifull 50 floors building in the meedle of Cornich beach. We are requested to take pictures at all direction at all floors and also a panoramic to the sea. After the visit we proceed to the hotel,..
Sleeping just 2 hours as we want to be at the spot realy early in the morning.
First day all went realy bad,... Strong wind, extremely high temperature and humidity, and the place was realy hard,... to huge cranes and 6 giant buildings arouns including a lot of cars and movement in the area,...I saw my radio completely covered with water and thought that nothing will work. The worst is that the blimp was not climbing,... Costumer not happy and big problems,... big stress at the field we even touched with the blimp in a crane due to wind and lack of vertical climb,...
Again to the hotel think a lot of all,.. we even ask the costumer if the helium is pure, it was unbelivable,... the blimp does´t want to climb.
Problem was found that we are not used to fly with such great temperatures, our blimp was tested at 20 degrees at the fresh portuguese summer. To be able to fly we have bought 2 extra 1 meter ballons (Kid Baloons) attach them to the blimp. We only have one cameramount so the payload can´t be less,.. We also bought a very light rope with 260 meters,...
Sleeping just a little again and having to charge and checkk all as we only have one more chance,.. tickets for retur are already bought no margin for error.
We tought to climb during the night with more cold and then when the sun rises we start shooting and descending,.. but at the field again problems,.... the blimp has no energy,...
Last solution, use the new rope, the rope was so thin,.. But yes the blimp starts to work very efectively,... we have climbed up to 250 meters,.. wind conditions were perfect, we have taken all the pictures we want,... perfectly from were we wish to take. Only issue was my fear that the rope breaks,.. It was vibrating so much,..
250 METERS
Problem was proved to be excess payload for the temperature and humidity.
At the end all of us were very tired, but very happy and proud! Costumer loved our work and also our energy solving the problems,..
Flying cam style picture at the end  Me with less 10 KG (yelow) and costumer Mr.Fahad
Jose Manuel Marques - WWW.UHC.PT |
