In preparation for next weeks shoot for the UN over some bad countryside. I ran a shake-down test today on the gimbal as a stand alone unit mounted in the normal way on the S/800 landing gear. This I will take into the Hughes 500 and shoot three quarters side/fwd from the back. It was just awesome. like shooting cineflex on wide angle. I was also able to rebalance the mount successfully to take the 18-55 OSS lens (Locked at 50). It ran the initializing calibration OK so It seems to be not just a single lens set-up after all. I can understand why they would not want people playing around in that area. It runs some pretty fancy auto calibration/anti vibration program before it will initialize ready for use. This is much more advanced technology than I thought it would be. When they said it could only be used with a WKM controller I was a bit surprised to find that this is not just a way to keep you from using it on another system. It really does reference the WKM IMU unit as well as a high sensitivity gimbal imu. and has nothing to do with matching up serial numbers etc. :tennis: This is a real camera mount.