Hexie can
send video
up to 4km
away from
500m high.
Right: Red
in the cherry
picker at
Brookleigh.
hopefully, reduce the 60
hours of editing that the
first production took.
They plan to bring this TV style show
to equestrian audiences Australia wide in
the short term, then launch internationally.
Once they have fine tuned the content and
processes, the sky is the limit! Well, that's not
quite true as Darren's latest acquisition is a
hexacopter. This space-age remote control
helicopter-like contraption carries a video camera
and relays coverage live to a computer up to 4km
away. Hexie flies up to 500m above ground and
can land and take off remotely.
This provides
such a unique
view, especially
on a cross country
course, and a wonderful
opportunity for riders and
their trainers to track,
watch and analyse the
entire course. Perhaps
we will see an aerial
course walk, with stops
at each jump, or follow
an endurance rider, or
the hunt. The possibilites
are endless.
Widely used in the
professional movie
industry, Hexie provides
the next step in the
future of technological advances in the equestrian
industry for training, entertainment and also for
increasing the interest in this popular spectator
sport by making it readily available to the public.
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