When your production brings you to Las Vegas, Area 51 Drones offers Inspire 3 cinema aerials, FPV, and experienced local production support—with one point of contact.
Whether you’re planning from London, New York, or elsewhere, the conversation can begin before anyone travels. Share a general outline of your production and intended schedule, leaving out confidential plans, and Jim Kegley can discuss how the aerial coverage could support your shoot.
For planned camera movement, imagine 3D Dolly as a track in the sky—a defined flight path with control over how the shot develops.
That could be a tracking shot alongside a vehicle, a controlled push-in, a revealing pullback, or a rising move with the visual character of a boom, jib, or crane shot.
With the Inspire 3’s 3D Dolly mode, the pilot controls speed and direction along the established route while a separate camera operator controls framing.
The director can refine the pace around the performance, then request another take along the same path with different timing or camera movement.
For vehicle work, high-precision RTK positioning supports more accurate flight-path control. The aircraft’s route, vehicle movement, and working separation are planned and coordinated by the crew.
The benefit is a consistent path with flexibility to shape the shot—not a fixed movement that dictates the performance.
For more closely repeated passes, Repeatable Routes reuses a saved flight plan with preset flight and camera parameters.
That creates opportunities for matching takes, revisiting compositions on separate shooting days, or connecting daylight and nighttime passes in the edit.
Distance-and-time calculations help establish the pace of the move around the required shot duration.
When the scene calls for freeform flying, the crew can work without programming a route, respond to the action, and develop movement on location. Jim can offer tracking, reveal, and transition suggestions in support of the director’s vision.
The Inspire 3 provides full-frame capture at resolutions up to 8K, with recording options including ProRes RAW and CinemaDNG.
The lens package includes eighteen, twenty-four, thirty-five, fifty, and seventy-five-millimeter options. A director’s confidence monitor provides a shared view of the camera image for evaluating framing and movement between takes.
Alongside the cinema aircraft, Area 51 Drones offers FPV through Jim’s partnership with a Las Vegas pilot who brings ten years of drone-racing experience and teaches small-drone racing.
Together, they provide distinct approaches to aerial movement—from controlled cinema tracking to immersive FPV coverage—coordinated around the needs of the sequence.
Area 51 Drones can provide aerial coverage for a visiting production or work alongside an existing team when additional crews are needed.
The starting point is your creative direction, location, schedule, and delivery requirements. From there, Jim can discuss the crew, equipment, and approach that fit the production.
For your first booking, ask about our new-customer discount, or visit Area51Drones.com to see our current monthly promotions.
Tell us what you’re looking to achieve, without sharing confidential production details, and let’s discuss how we can contribute.
Area 51 Drones. Ready when you need us.
