When Jerry Grayson left the Royal Navy's Search and Rescue helicopter fleet aged 25 he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history. In terms of excitement, however, civilian life lacked spice.
But Jerry had a passion for the movies and carved his way into a new career. Setting out to develop radically different ways of capturing dramatic aerial footage, Jerry pushed his helicopter to guarantee the most exciting, innovative and sometimes impossible shots that top film directors demanded.
Over the past 35 years Jerry has become the go-to man for aerial film-making, shooting everything from music videos, award-winning footage of burning Kuwaiti oilfields and flooded New Orleans, to the Athens Olympic Games, the landing of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and fast-paced, action-packed James Bond movies.
With entertaining behind-the-scenes stories and revelatory insights into how this invisible sector of the industry operates, Film Pilot reveals the lengths gone to, and the dangers endured, to capture some of the most exciting and inspiring footage ever committed to film.