Some Aerial Pictures and Videos From The Zone

http://alexcheban.livejournal.com/154932.html

Hello,
Very nice Link, thanks for sharing!

Wow, very nice indeed! Thanks for sharing!
I always thought the zone was no-flying-land?

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I always thought the zone was no-flying-land?

I dont know about the current situation, but earlier there was a possibility to fly with the helicopter over the zone. For something about 1k$ per hour.
http://pripyat.com/gallery/pripyat-i-ch ... oleta.html

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUfcvSgN ... r_embedded

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Pictures from helicopter flight over the Zone.

http://coder-in-ua.blogspot.de/2011/10/ ... ivejournal

http://alert.io.ua/album481754


Video from helicopter flight over Pripyat. Taken from soviet movie "Decay" 1989.
http://rutube.ru/video/c1fdfa95047a4aa8 ... e964522d0/

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I always thought the zone was no-flying-land?

A helicopter trip is one of the few things I'm still missing so I put it on my
todo list a while ago and did some investigations:

Yes, it's possible. Unfortunately, as there is no helicopter available in
Chornobyl, you have to get there from Borodyanka (and back!). This adds
two more hours to the whole trip -- as a result you pay 3 x 900 Euros for
being one hour in the Zone actually. The area directly above ChNPP is
never-never land but apart from that you can go everywhere.

It's quite a bit of money but I'm pretty sure I'll do this one day (if I just had
more time ;-()...

I always thought the zone was no-flying-land?

A helicopter trip is one of the few things I'm still missing so I put it on my
todo list a while ago and did some investigations:

Yes, it's possible. Unfortunately, as there is no helicopter available in
Chornobyl, you have to get there from Borodyanka (and back!). This adds
two more hours to the whole trip -- as a result you pay 3 x 900 Euros for
being one hour in the Zone actually. The area directly above ChNPP is
never-never land but apart from that you can go everywhere.

It's quite a bit of money but I'm pretty sure I'll do this one day (if I just had
more time ;-()...

Count me in!

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Count me in!

You're sure? The MI-2 got room for 6-8 people so even if there
are two Ukrainian friends coming along, this might be possible.

One has to figure out if he can drop us off near/in the Zone so
we can take off for a nice 3-days trip after that (just dreaming)...

OK, I won't be able to do that before next year (too busy at the
moment) but let's keep that in mind...

Count me in!

You're sure? The MI-2 got room for 6-8 people so even if there
are two Ukrainian friends coming along, this might be possible.

One has to figure out if he can drop us off near/in the Zone so
we can take off for a nice 3-days trip after that (just dreaming)...

OK, I won't be able to do that before next year (too busy at the
moment) but let's keep that in mind...

Absolutely. If everyone pays their share, it won't cost a fortune. And flying over Pripyat is definitely worth the money! Next Year sounds good, too. This year I'm already out of budget

There are other ways to get aerial photography of the Zone. I've seen a friend's homemade tri-copter that carries an HD video camera. It is entirely remote control with a live video feed and heads-up display for piloting. Imagine sending one of those up the inside of the cooling tower, or around the block 5 reactor hall.... I'm seriously considering building one for my next trip.