Aircraft
Aircraft
AGL flies heavy lift multirotor, the DJI Inspire 3, FPV, and a lighting array carried as a payload.
Each one exists because a shot needs something the others cannot do. The camera package and the geography decide which one goes up, so that is where choosing starts.
01Platforms
What AGL flies
Four platforms, each with the figure that matters most to a coordinator planning around it.
Freefly Alta X
Heavy lift
Cinema camera and lens packages heavier than a standard production drone will lift, on a full size cinema gimbal.
Payload budget35 lb
DJI Inspire 3
Inspire 3
An integrated Zenmuse X9 full frame camera, so there is no external camera to rig or balance. Agility over payload.
Recording8K RAW
Aircraft
FPV
Continuous fast moving shots a conventional camera drone cannot fly.
Stratus array
Drone lighting
A lighting payload flown on a gimbal under the Alta X, as a payload swap rather than a different aircraft.
Array2x2
02Choosing
Which one you need
Start with the camera package and the geography, not with the aircraft.
If the camera package is the constraint
It is heavy lift. The Alta X carries 35 lb of camera body, lens, gimbal, and accessories together, which is what lets an aerial unit shoot the same body as the ground units instead of a lighter substitute. It needs room to work.
If the move is the constraint
It is FPV. Continuous fast moving shots, and geography a large aircraft cannot get through, are what FPV is flown for.
If light is the problem, not camera position
It is the lighting array. It flies on the Alta X as a payload swap, so it is the same aircraft and the same team, with the camera exchanged for a source that can be pointed independently of where the aircraft is heading.
If the schedule is the constraint
It is the Inspire 3. The camera is integrated, so there is no external body to rig or balance and the aircraft is in the air sooner. It trades payload for that, which is the reason it is not the answer when a specific cinema body has to fly.
If none of that is obvious
Send the shot, the camera package, and the location. That is enough to answer, and it is the same three things a heavy lift day is planned from.