I think you all missed the most important part of my original post above:"Buy lots of spare planes and cameras. This is not an easy task for an experienced pilot. With a newbie, it will be very expensive." This guy doesn't stand a prayer in all actuality unless he hires an EXTREMELY good pilot. This is no beginner undertaking. Trying to fly any model up in the mountains with the inherent tricky winds is a challenge in itself. Now he is also going to need a video downlink so he'll know what is being filmed at any given time or all he's going to get is trees and rocks as he crashes. IMO the entire project (the plane or heli part) should be scrapped. Sorry.[&o]