Drone filming in Mondsee

Drone filming in Mondsee means a registered drone pilot takes aerial photos and video of the lake, the market town, hotels, properties and events, and checks before every flight where and how flying is allowed. The open category of EU drone rules allows flights below 120 metres, in visual line of sight and never over crowds, and the pilot looks up the Austro Control Dronespace map for any geographical zone at the chosen launch point. Around this lake the pilot also thinks about the ground and the water: the World Heritage pile-dwelling site See am Mondsee lies in a shallow bay at the eastern end, and the heritage body asks visitors to avoid boating and especially anchoring in its protection zone.

A few minutes north, the Irrsee is entirely under nature protection according to the tourism board, and a few pairs of the endangered Eurasian curlew breed in its moors, so a responsible pilot keeps well away from those areas or does not fly there at all. That leaves plenty to film elsewhere: the twin towers of the basilica above the roofs, the town at the north-western end of the lake, and the long line of the Drachenwand cliffs to the south. A typical drone job takes half a day including planning, with edited stills and a short cut or raw clips delivered within a week.