Toledo Blade Blvd & I-75, North Port — first practice reps from the shot bank (orbit, rise-and-reveal, tracking line) in easy airspace before attempting the Sarasota hero shots. DJI Mavic 2 Pro · Litchi missions. The table below is generated fromlocations.json and the CSVs themselves — waypoint counts, altitude and gimbal ranges are read from each file at build time.
| Shot | Mission | Waypoints | Altitude | Gimbal | Fly | Light | CSV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W1 | Marsh orbit frame — POI A round marshwalton-ranch-practice-litchi.csv✓ Altitude✓ Frame✓ Mission✓ Airspace | 10 | 40 m → 40 m · min 15 m / max 100 m | -20° → -20° · min -30° / max -10° | 41 m AGL | Golden hour pm | ↓ CSV |
| W2 | Marsh-mosaic reveal NE (hero)walton-ranch-practice-litchi.csv✓ Altitude✓ Frame✓ Mission✓ Airspace | 10 | 40 m → 40 m · min 15 m / max 100 m | -20° → -20° · min -30° / max -10° | 110 m AGL | Golden hour pm | ↓ CSV |
| W3 | Dirt-track leading line northwalton-ranch-practice-litchi.csv✓ Altitude✓ Frame✓ Mission✓ Airspace | 10 | 40 m → 40 m · min 15 m / max 100 m | -20° → -20° · min -30° / max -10° | 23 m AGL | Golden hour pm | ↓ CSV |
| W4 | North Port Estates from the preservewalton-ranch-practice-litchi.csv✓ Altitude✓ Frame✓ Mission✓ Airspace | 10 | 40 m → 40 m · min 15 m / max 100 m | -20° → -20° · min -30° / max -10° | 85 m AGL | Golden hour pm | ↓ CSV |
| W5 | Tree-line silhouette into sunsetwalton-ranch-practice-litchi.csv✓ Altitude✓ Frame✓ Mission✓ Airspace | 10 | 40 m → 40 m · min 15 m / max 100 m | -20° → -20° · min -30° / max -10° | 12 m AGL | Sunset | ↓ CSV |
| Shot | Mission | Waypoints | Altitude | Gimbal | Fly | Light | CSV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bird Key wide — skyline behindbirdkey-wide-litchi.csv✓ Altitude✓ Frame✓ Mission✓ Airspace | 4 | 115 m | -14° → -16° | 115 m AGL | Golden hour pm | ↓ CSV |
| 2 | Bird Key low close-upbirdkey-low-litchi.csv✓ Altitude✓ Frame✓ Mission✓ Airspace | 4 | 110 m → 100 m | -20° → -24° | 110 m AGL | Golden hour pm | ↓ CSV |
| 3 | Harbor Acres estates + Selby Gardensharbor-acres-litchi.csv✓ Altitude✓ Frame✓ Mission✓ Airspace | 4 | 110 m → 100 m | -18° → -22° | 110 m AGL | Golden hour pm | ↓ CSV |
| 4 | Lido Beach curve northlido-beach-litchi.csv✓ Altitude✓ Frame✓ Mission✓ Airspace | 4 | 110 m | -18° → -20° | 110 m AGL | Sunrise | ↓ CSV |
| 5 | St. Armands canal bendst-armands-canal-litchi.csv✓ Altitude✓ Frame✓ Mission✓ Airspace | 4 | 110 m → 115 m | -28° → -32° | 112 m AGL | Midday 12–3 | ↓ CSV |
| 6 | Country Club Shores → Gulf sunsetcountry-club-shores-litchi.csv✓ Altitude✓ Frame✓ Mission✓ Airspace | 4 | 115 m → 110 m | -14° → -17° | 113 m AGL | Sunset | ↓ CSV |
| 7 | Ringling hero — causeway into skylineringling-hero-litchi.csv✓ Altitude✓ Frame✓ Mission✓ Airspace | 4 | 115 m → 95 m | -17° → -22° | 115 m AGL | Golden hour pm | ↓ CSV |
| 9 | Marina Jack low — flyable exactly (85 m)marinajack-85m-litchi.csv✓ Altitude✓ Frame✓ Mission✓ Airspace | 5 | 85 m → 95 m | -14° → -22° | 85 m AGL | Golden hour pm | ↓ CSV |
| Shot | Mission | Waypoints | Altitude | Gimbal | Fly | Light | CSV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | Siesta turquoise — gulf foregroundsiesta-turquoise-litchi.csv✓ Altitude✓ Frame✓ Mission✓ Airspace | 4 | 115 m → 90 m | -20° → -26° | 115 m AGL | Midday 12–3 | ↓ CSV |
| Shot | Mission | Waypoints | Altitude | Gimbal | Fly | Light | CSV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | Venice waterway — Intracoastal bendvenice-waterway-litchi.csv✓ Altitude✓ Frame✓ Mission✓ Airspace | 4 | 118 m → 95 m | -18° → -24° | 115 m AGL | Sunset | ↓ CSV |
Recommended. 25 acres — open ballfields, pavilions, parking, walking paths. Off Sumter Blvd in east North Port, ~5 mi east of the Toledo Blade / I-75 interchange (the earlier draft misplaced it ~5 mi west). Drone crews already film here; launch from an empty outfield, weekday morning = empty park.
Right on Toledo Blade north of I-75, but it is preserve land — drones are commonly prohibited on preserves. Check posted rules before choosing it.
Backup, ~4 mi SW. Huge sports complex, the most open turf in the city if Atwater is busy.
Second backup, near US-41.
Launch: outfield near 27.06798, -82.10816 (verified against the 4475 Skyway Ave geocode; the earlier 27.0605, -82.1930 was ~8 km off). Set RTH 60 m.
Reps: (1) 60 m orbit at 40 m around a light-pole POI, (2) rise-and-reveal 60 → 90 m facing west, (3) straight-line tracking pass at 35 m along the tree line, (4) the Bird Key gimbal move, -20° → -24° while dollying back.
Timing: sunset ≈ 7:45 pm this week — arrive 6:30 pm for calm light, or 7:30 am on a weekday for an empty park.
Kit: ND filters off (test), spare battery ×2, landing mat, phone with Litchi.
Mission file: atwater-practice-litchi.csv ↓
FL §330.41 preemption — cities may still control takeoff/landing on their own property; no published North Port parks drone ban found, so obey signage and staff.
Practice flight = recreational: TRUST cert + drone registration; keep Part 107 habits anyway.
Stay off people and fields in use, VLOS, no flights over I-75 traffic.