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This is part of a series of videos that we are creating from the San Antonio 110 Organization's 10th Annual 911 Memorial Climb event. The event was organized by the San Antonio 110 organization. #sa110 #sa1102022 You can find out more about the San Antonio 110 organization at https://www.facebook.com/sanantonio110 This video covers the opening ceremonies and speeches just after sunrise, as the participants gather together at the base of the Tower of Americas in downtown San Antonio, then shows the release of the doves and the start of the climb by the firefighters, police and other participants. The Tower is nearly 750ft tall and the participants climbed the stairs, over 600ft to the Observation Deck level, where they exited the stairwell and began to descend via the 2nd stairwell. Towards the end of the event, there were multiple firefighters and other participants who collapsed from the 90+ degree heat inside the stairwell and had to be helped to complete the descent. There was a line of volunteers willing to return backup the stairs to help their fellow participants, so many that they had to turn some away. Those volunteers took the elevators to the top, then descended until they found the stranded people. Description of the event from San Antonio's 110 Facebook event page: "San Antonio 110 9/11 Memorial Climb is a very specific type of 9/11 memorial. There is a reason it is not a 5k, a bike ride, or any other type of "sporting" event. There is a reason it is specifically a climb: to pay tribute to the climb that our 343 fallen firefighter brothers made, and lost their lives in the course of, on September 11th, 2001. That is why we climb, in honor of their sacrifice. In addition we also incorporate tribute to other tragic first responder casualties of 9/11 including the 70 Law Enforcement Officers and 9 EMS personnel who perished at ground zero as well. We highly encourage all types of tributes at our event and for everyone to pay tribute as they feel moved and best fit to. However the sole mission of "110 climbs", created all across the country, is for our brotherhood to honor and remember the lost lives of our 343 firefighters. #SA110 is special in that we also open it to the public as well for friends and family to come and pay respect to the losses of 9/11 while still keeping true to the 110 purpose for our brotherhood. 343 tags will be carried for each of our fallen firefighter brothers up the stairs of the Tower Of The Americas. There will also be 70 tags for the fallen Law Enforcement Officers and 9 for EMS personnel. We will climb these stairs twice to reach (and actually exceed) the 110 floors of the World Trade Center to pay tribute to each. We will complete these climbs for them and their accountability tag will be placed on an accountability board when finished. There are many other symbolic moments and events represented in this event as well to pay respect and honor the lost lives of our brothers of 9/11." Yellow Rose Drones was happy to be a part of this ceremonial climb for the second year in a row and looks forward to being back again in 2023. Our thanks to Jeff Dillon for acting as our volunteer observer and additional videographer during the event. For more information about Yellow Rose Drones, please visit us at https://YellowRoseDrones.com. Music from Epidemic Sound.

We rented the Lodge at the Great Northwest Community Improvement Association for my wife's Celebration of Life event in October. She passed away September 2, 2022, from an untreated medical condition that shouldn't have been life threatening, but by the time we realized what was happening, it was too late. Before the event got too crowded, I powered up the DJI Avata drone, put on the goggles and did a fly-thru of their main rental hall and their swimming pool area. This wasn't a scripted video, just doing it because we could. The tall guy in the kitchen that I "played tag" with, was my son, David. The guy sitting on the bench seat by the window laughing at my antics, is my other son, John. For more information about my wife's GoFundMe campaign, visit https://gofundme.com/f/patricia-knight-ad5br if you are interested in helping us out with her funeral and legal expenses. For more information about us, visit https://YellowRoseDrones.com Music track from Epidemic Sound. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did flying thru this wonderful facility.

Just some playtime with the DJI Avata Drone while we were up at Canyon Lake Texas for the Dam Fine Car Show. Music from Epidemic Sound

This was the 5th Annual Dam Fine Car Show & Sunday Drive event, sponsored by the Dam Community Alliance of Canyon Lake. In this video, we'll take you across the dam to the car show, drive you around the car show in a golf cart (Courtesy of the Hill Country REACT Team) and finally, show the show cars departing as they head across the dam following the conclusion of the event. The general public paid $10 a vehicle to drive across the dam and $5/person to enter the show area. Entries into the car show paid $15 in advance, or $20 on the day of the event. Proceeds from this event are used to fund future improvements to the Canyon Lake Dam access, primarily ADA compliance features. We used multiple video sources for this video, ranging from the GoPro Hero 10 camera, to the DJI Avata FPV drone (coastal shots), and the DJI Mini 3 Pro drone (aerial view of departing show cars), in an effort to make this video more entertaining for the viewer. For more information about the Dam Community Alliance, visit them at https://damcommunityalliance.com For more information about Hill Country REACT Team, visit them at https://HillCountryREACT.org For more information about Yellow Rose Drones, visit us at https://YellowRoseDrones.com. Music was from Epidemic Sound.

We were invited to fly our drones for the Annual Dam Fine Car Show at Canyon Lake TX on Sunday. We flew a variety of drones & used our GoPro camera for additional closeup footage. This video captured the time when Canyon Lake Fire/EMS units were changing shifts at the car show. We "chase" the 2 units departing and follow the new ambulance that's arriving. But when the orange REACT golf cart shows up, we naturally started to follow it instead. Members of the Hill Country REACT Team were onsite to provide radio coordination for the car show by setting up their commercial UHF repeater, loaning out a dozen HT radios to key volunteers, and driving their 26 year old gas powered golf cart, affectionately named "Gassie" by their members. This golf cart is reaching the end of life quickly and they need a new(er) one to use for these public service events. REACT is a 501(c)3 not for profit organization with all volunteers, no paid employees. If you can help them get a newer golf cart, they are looking for a 4 or 6 passenger cart with off-road tires and suspension. Contact them via email at info@HillCountryREACT.org to offer donations or help to get a new cart. The DJI Avata FPV drone was used to capture this video footage. For more information about Yellow Rose Drones, visit us at https://YellowRoseDrones.com . Music was from Epidemic Sound.

This is just a short cell phone video that we took as we drove across the dam after the 2022 Dam Fine Car Show was over. I handed my cell phone to my son and said here, record some video. So, what I got is what I got. Enjoy.

#damfinecarshow #canyonlaketx just a quick video as we were leaving the Canyon Lake Dam where we had been situated all day for the damn fine car show. Jen Crownover was waiting for us at the exit gate to prevent other tourists from coming across the dam the wrong way. Only those who were in the show were allowed to exit going southbound once the show was over.

Just some friends from the Central Texas Drone Meet-Up Facebook Group out having fun flying our drones. We had some guests today, a couple and their grandson who were interested in learning more about drones, so we were putting on a show. Kai with @Lone Star UAV hooked up a tablet to his goggles so that they could "ride along" with him as he flew one of his many FPV style drones. (FPV - is where you navigate using goggles, so you get the First Person View, because you are looking out the camera of the drone live while it's flying. This short video is from our DJI Avata drone, which is also an FPV drone flown with goggles. But instead of using the normal remote controller with the 2 toggle sticks, we used DJI's Motion Controller. It was surprisingly easy to pick up on, but we prefer the greater control of using the standard controller. Central Texas Drone Meet-up normally meets up on the 3rd weekend of the month, depending upon the weather and soccer / football season. For more info about us, visit https://YellowRoseDrones.com.

It's nice to have friends who own a nightclub, so last night we took our DJI Avata drone over to his nightclub on a night that it wasn't open to the public. We wanted to find out if the drone could be safely flown inside the nightclub and over the dance floor with the strobe lights & fog machine turned on. It was fairly easy to fly with the daytime lights turned on because it was nice and bright, but with it being dark and with the lights strobing? That's a whole other challenge. First of all, you won't get many GPS satellites locked while inside a building, if any. We started out with 6-8 locked satellites, but quickly lost even those as we flew further away from the outside wall. It was almost like flying in purely manual mode, but with some stabilization help still being there. The drone tended to drift and move in directions that we didn't want it to, or change altitude if we weren't vigilant at all times. We did successfully fly around the nightclub, as you will see in the video, but the question remains, would it be safe to fly when there were people inside the area? It's not against FAA regulations to fly over people inside a building, but is it against common sense? The jury is still out on this experiment. Perhaps we'll try again on a night when it hasn't (yet) gotten crowded and everybody inside has been alerted / warned on how to behave properly if the drone is nearby. For more info about us, visit us at https://YellowRoseDrones.com Music track from Epidemic Sound

While we were waiting to have our vehicle looked on a lazy Saturday morning, we got bored. We've been coming to this shop for years and gotten to know the mechanics and staff pretty well. The owner was here, so I offered to fly through the shop just for fun. The owner liked it well enough, that he's asked us to come back to do one for real. FYI, they didn't charge for today's work. Update: This version of the video was re-edited on our computer using out full editing suite of software, rather than a quickie job on our cellphone on-site at the shop. We think you will enjoy this more professional version better. For more information about Cambridge Auto, visit them at https://CambridgeAuto.com or listen to their "Under the Hood Show" on Saturday afternoons from 3:30pm-5pm Central Time on WOAI 1200 Talk Radio in San Antonio, TX. For more information about Yellow Rose Drones, visit us at https://YellowRoseDrones.com Audio track from Epidemic Sound. Filmora 11 Editing Software by Wondershare

This is just a flying for fun video where I checked out the picnic / greenbelt area behind my HOA's buildings. Lots of trees and other obstacles to practice flying around or thru. Found some deer who decided they didn't like my noisy drone and bolted away, further into the greenbelt area when they detected it approaching. This was my first attempt to fly a bit more aggressively in an area with obstacles abound. I did bump into a few tree limbs, but the Ribbed Rider bumper guards from @OriginaldoBo worked as designed. The Avata drone never actually crashed to the ground after any of these incidents. Towards the end, a green leaf decided to hitch a ride and covered up the camera so that I couldn't see thru it any longer. I just took the goggles off, put my glasses back on, and visually guided the drone back to me. Those neon yellow bumper guards really made it easy to spot this (otherwise) very dark colored drone. I will be returning to this area for more practice, but won't bother to upload the footage each time. I did experiment with the stabilization modes in this flight however. This flight was done with "horizon leveling" turned on. I still saw all the twists and turns live in the goggles, but the final video was nice and level. If I was flying in Manual mode, instead of Sport or Normal modes, I wouldn't want that stabilization to be turned on. Music from Epidemic Sound. DJI Avata Drone flown in normal & sport mode. No color adjustment made to the video.

While we were waiting to have our vehicle looked at this morning, we got bored. We've been coming to this shop for years and gotten to know the mechanics and staff pretty well. The owner was here, so I offered to fly through the shop just for fun. The owner liked it well enough, that he's asked us to come back to do one for real. FYI, they didn't charge for today's work. For more information about Cambridge Auto, visit them at https://cambridgeauto.com or listen to their "Under the Hood Show" on Saturday afternoons from 3:30pm-5pm on WOAI 1200 Talk Radio. For more information about Yellow Rose Drones, visit us at https://YellowRoseDrones.com

This short video contains footage from the final 2 miles into the BikeMS Valero Ride to the River Finish Line on day 2, Sunday, October 2, 2022. It includes a nice interview with Charles, a Ham Radio Volunteer with the Hill Country REACT Team, who has been volunteering for this event for many years. Charles shares why he volunteers and why he feels it makes a difference. This is a different editing style, compared to the other videos on our channel, but we felt it was important to share his message with you. For more information about this ride, find it at https://mssociety.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&eventID=1156 For more information about Yellow Rose Drones, visit us at https://YellowRoseDrones.com Music from Epidemic Sound. Footage came from a cellphone mounted on a DJI OM5 Gimbal Stabilizer.

This is a short drone view of the start line as the riders get started on Saturday's routes on the 2022 BikeMS Valero Ride to the River 2-day bicycle event at Rolling Oaks Mall in San Antonio. They had around 900 riders starting this day. We'll be releasing more footage from the weekend as we get the time to edit and release it. For more information about this ride, find it at https://mssociety.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&eventID=1156 For more information about Yellow Rose Drones, visit us at https://YellowRoseDrones.com Music from Epidemic Sound. Drone used was the DJI Mini 3 Pro.

This is a short drone tour of the starting line area for the 2022 BikeMS Valero Ride to the River 2-day bicycle event at Rolling Oaks Mall in San Antonio. We had around 900 riders starting this day. We've got more footage from the actual start, after sunrise, showing where the riders are lined up and ready to hit the road. For more information about this ride, find them at https://mssociety.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&eventID=1156 For more information about Yellow Rose Drones, visit us at https://YellowRoseDrones.com Music from Epidemic Sound. Drones used were the DJI Avatar and the DJI Mini 3 Pro.

Earlier today, while helping out with a bicycle ride event, somebody accidentally ran over an unprotected sprinkler head & set off this huge geyser of water into the air. It started flooding the area, causing volunteers to need to move the covered tent, chairs and vehicles that were getting wet. The wind shifted while I was flying my drone, causing me to stand in a soft mist of rain. Electronics and rain is not a good combination. So I jumped in my rental van and relocated while the Drone patiently waited. and then I finished flying through the playground area and only bumped one of the bars once. We made a joke about The Beverly Hillbillies and the Clampetts drilling for oil, but only getting water. Eventually the maintenance people figured out how to turn the water off in the sprinkler system, without also shutting down water to the entire facility. This short clip was edited on my Android phone using Filmora Go software. I am still learning how to use this new software for me, and maybe I'll figure out how to add music one day as well. I normally use the desktop version of this software, so the Android version is a little bit different.

We hadn't seen anyone testing the Avata drone in low light conditions, so last night we had the opportunity to fly it behind a hospital at their loading dock after making a delivery. The time was about 12:30am and the security guard was bored and curious enough to stop and watch me fly. It's only a minute or so in length, nothing fancy, just zooming around in the empty loading dock area on the back side of the hospital. There were parking lot lights and other illumination to light up the area, but it was rather dim to normal eyesight. We were pretty happy with how well the camera functioned in such poor lighting conditions. For more info about Yellow Rose Drones, visit us at https://YellowRoseDrones.com. Music from Epidemic Sound of course.

We were down at the Tower of Americas, in downtown San Antonio, hours before sunrise to get ready for the San Antonio 110 9/11 Memorial Climb event that would be happening later that day. We put our Autel Evo 2 Pro drone up in the air to catch some B-Roll material and decided it was good enough to make this video. As a Part 107 Certified Pilot, we were allowed to fly up to 400ft above the antenna on the Tower because the downtown area is Class G unrestricted airspace. Recreational pilots are restricted to only 400ft above ground level, not allowing for the additional height of surrounding buildings or man made structures. But as we came back down for a landing, the San Antonio Pipe & Drum group chose to do their warm up practicing next to our launch area. The Evo 2 Pro 6K camera is perfect for low light conditions. The audio from the Pipe & Drum performance was recorded from a digital recorder. For more information about San Antonio 110 9/11 Memorial Climb, find them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/sanantonio110 For more information about Yellow Rose Drones, visit our website at https://YellowRoseDrones.com. Find us on YouTube, Rumble and Instagram by typing "/c/YellowRoseDrones" after those website addresses. Music audio from Epidemic Sound and live from the San Antonio Pipe & Drum group.

This video is intended to document my experience with the new DJI AVATA FPV Drone. We were out at the Central Texas Done Meet-up event in mid September and we decided it was a great time to fly the drone. We're using the RC controller for this flight, not the Motion Controller. That'll be our next test, because we're so used to the normal sticks on a RC controller. This video won't be in our top 10 video list for sure, but we'll be able to look back on it later to document it. Yellow Rose Drones is a certified Part 107 commercial drone pilot in the San Antonio Texas area. It's our hope to use this drone for fly-thru type videos. Visit us at https://YellowRoseDrones.com for more information.

This video is intended to document my experience with the new DJI AVATA FPV Drone. We were out at the Central Texas Done Meet-up event in mid September and we decided it was a great time to unbox the drone. Disclaimer - Prior to this event, we had already charged everything, linked the components, and updated the firmware. This video won't be in our top 10 video list for sure, but we'll be able to look back on it later to document it. Yellow Rose Drones is a certified Part 107 commercial drone pilot in the San Antonio Texas area. It's our hope to use this drone for fly-thru type videos. Visit us at https://YellowRoseDrones.com for more information.

The Libre Initiative gave out $10,586 in grocery gift cards, at a La Fiesta Grocery Store in San Antonio, on September 10th, to offset the cost of inflation under the current administration. We are keeping the Washington Politicians accountable by educating the community on the ways we are paying more, but getting less. We passed out 200 gift certificates for $52.93 each, which is what we calculated the current high inflation rate to have increased the cost of groceries. The audio is in Spanish, but the subtitles are in English. For more information about The Libre Initiative and how to support this effort, visit us at https://thelibreinitiative.actcentr.com/ Video created and edited by Yellow Rose Drones. If you want a video prepared for your company or community event, feel free to reach out to us at https://YellowRoseDrones.com for more information. Music track is from Epidemic Sound.