Within the past 10 years, winter sports have taken a dramatic turn, in terms of their increasing popularity throughout the globe. Are you planning on booking a trip anytime soon? Perhaps you are travelling to a well-known ski resort or ski passes. If you intend to engage in extreme winter sports, then you need to seek adequate protection, for your health and your finances. Never underestimate the importance of winter sports insurance when you are travelling.

Benefits

Insurance plans that cover winter sports have several benefits. Essentially, you will receive the typically allotted benefits you would with everyday travelling insurance. Basically, if you happen to develop a sudden medical condition or you end up with a serious physical injury, you will receive full coverage of this. This will minimise your out of pocket costs when you are travelling abroad. This is especially smart if you plan to engage in winter sports. Sports radically increase your chances of receiving a traumatic physical injury. Hence, you need the accessibility of quality health coverage.

Your insurance will also cover any lost luggage. If you are planning to ski, or engage in other winter sports, your luggage will hold the key to your sporting experience. Most likely, your luggage will carry your ski clothes and other key preparatory items. As a result, sports insurance is highly recommended.

If you decide to cancel your trip and return to your home country immediately, this can be covered as well. Sometimes, family emergencies or deaths arise while you are overseas. It is critical to travel back as soon as possible to attend to your personal issues. Hence, cancellation coverage is yet another quality benefit of enrolling in this type of insurance plan.

Finally, one of the primary benefits of this type of insurance policy is to cover any damages that affect your winter sports equipment. Sports equipment can prove costly, and, you cannot afford to break you sports paraphernalia. Hence, you may be able to find coverage that reimburses you for sports equipment damage.

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The phantom 3 from dji brings quite a lot of new features and improvments across but from my own phantom 2 experience I want to tell you what I need and see if the phantom 3 delivers on that.

Indoor Aerial filming

The phantom 2 would be incredibly hard to get steady meaningful indoor shots as the motion of the drone is going to be more random due to there being no GPS available indors - doh of course not !
The phantom 3 has the same underside camera/sensor recognition system so that it can feedback motion from the floor detail into the brain of the drone and correct - I would be keen to know if this also works outside to augment the GPS or if that is then just ignored.

Camera Control - the biggie for me

A big issue for me is not having access to any video camera controls while in the air - we do have tilt control for the gimbal in the phantom 2 of course but now the phatom 3 brings in start and stop recording (how many times I have landed to realise that I wasnt recording I am ebarassed to say !) and there are some exposure contros I believe too. The software allows some further custom Tx (Transmitter) inputs for you to assign in the software. I am not quite sure what you would use these for yet.

Well you may not catch me taking a ride in this just yet as I dont think for a moment that the multirotor is proven in flight as much as a helicopter but this is a fantastic stepping stone from concept to reality. Thanks to the fastcodesign guys for inspiring me to write this early in the week. Here is the full suite of images

This image found on the google group Aerial Photography and Videography [as we love this kind of good press for drones] and now the coming reality showcased already at the german air show AERO Friedrichshafen 2014 seen here..
I count around 14 motos and no doubt you can fly on fewer. So long as there is quite a bit of redundancy then this should be as safe as a helicopter both share the same principals of aeronautics.
I think personal transport systems are one of the more exciting things to come. Get me off the darn roads.

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Also see below for the answer to the Question : What is the gopro hero 4 black 4k video like ?

I run a Phantom 2 from DJI FPV system which is capable of full 4k professional aerial footage both photographs and video. This inspire takes things to a different level in areas that you may or may not need. I shall explore the inspire further but for now the phantom 2 has everything I need and travels well also.

What is the big advantage to the inspire ? Well for me it is the almost full control of the camera while flying. So you can tune the exposure for example or frame rate or resolution, yes it does support 4k up to 25fps so seems to be on a par with the hero 4 black from gopro. But this is adding a lot of cost to the hobbyist and I feel pushes this into the company realm. We will have to see how the production inspires turn out and maybe see what a second generation inspire brings. But in closing it is what dji do best they marry the apps and peripheral stuff to the multirotor model - its how they weave it altogether its what apple would be making if they did quad copters. I am very very happy with mine.

Answering the question on how good is the video of the gopro 4 black edition shooting at 4k in reality?
Here is a still made from 4k video with the gopro hero 4 black edition. (the image seen needs to be downloaded or inspected at the full file size it has been reduced in size to fit this blog post.)

In fact its not true 4k but UHDTV with a slightly smaller resolution of 3840 x 2160 (this was my first shock)- you may need to right click to get the image in a new browser tab to see the full size version - or download it and inspect it more closely. I do have to say that you can zoom in and take a crop at a quarter and still see a sharp image. I might be with a lot of people saying that technology has gone beyond what we can natively appreciate ! I think the value of the slow motion 1080p for action sports is worth looking at otherwise 4k might be of use for projecting a large image perhaps. Not sure..