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How to do big group "dronies"

Recently, I took a picture of my entire senior class at Newman Smith High School in Carrollton Texas. I'd like to share the results with the rest of you all. 

I made a how-to on Instructables.com on how I planned the whole thing and also, all the other pictures and video. 

Here'st the link to the instructables: http://www.instructables.com/id/Aerial-Group-Picture-with-a-Drone/

Here's the video link again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFf14__5qn0

Tell me what you think about this, whether it's good or bad. 

**I understand that there was a big risk running such a machine near everyone's heads...we tried to not fly on top of anyone's heads - we ended up doing that for probably 5 seconds, max, when we flew it further away once the crowd had dispersed. Also, we followed the FAA's AC 91-57 and set the ceiling to 350, as opposed to the curricula's 400ft. 

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