Master drone pilot captures video while flying around, inside, and under a moving train

"What if someone had died during the shooting". Who? How?
The engineer is the only person aboard the train and is unlikely to swerve off the tracks.
Million ton train vs 1lb drone. I know where my money's going.
Great footage.

What an astonishing piece of photography. A man using the right tools for the job. All you hipster, coward, snowflake, pansy, PC retards can just bask in awe at how much better at life this guy is,, than you are,, or ever will be.

Grow a pair.

Sad to say his name is of Finnish origin. :-( What if someone died because of this and now hundreds of copycats.

After about 30 s, this video was stunningly boring.

I got motion sickness after watching this...

Just another person who believes he is above the Law. This encourages others to try stunts like this it until someone gets hurt or killed.

Common sense must prevail when doing all forms of Photography.

I guess I don't get it. Is the point of this to show off flying skills or to show great video? I mean, yea neat drone moves, etc but the video is well yet again another drone video, so what's the point?

What? No hobos in the box car?

Disappointing.

That was awesome.
And I'm sure if the law said to put your finger up your ass and smell it too DPReview and all those wankers complaining about this would follow that to the letter.

I wont comment on the legality of the stunt other than say a) the drone posed absolutely no risk to the train but b) dura lex, sed lex.
What I am interested in is (as a dumb novice drone pilot) how on earth did he do it? and I mean some of the stunts like flying UNDER the train? With all the wind, the vibration, etc, how is it possible that the rotors didnt touch anything? Amazing skills + amazing luck? Special equipment? Propeller guards?

Incredible flying skills, but he is flying illegally and that just harms every other drone pilot out there that is trying to do this legally.

What did he do that was illegal? He needs to have line of sight on the drone at all times or have a visual observer that has line of sight and is in communication with him, the remote pilot.

Pretty pathetic he doesn't know this and even challenges people to say exactly what is is that he did that is illegal.

Duh, you and your VO (doubt he had a VO) have no line of sight dumb dumb.

Great flying skills but no video skills what so ever. A little boring really....

The negative reactions - and frankly ridiculous comments from most on here (most of whom have probably never even seen a drone in real life, let alone flown one) is mind boggling. Take a chill pill for heavens sake; if you don’t like it or can’t appreciate his skill, go back to your EOS100D, portrait and BBQ selfies!

Spastic indeed. Maybe his talent is more in not crashing than in making nice footage.

Should've been disqualified for the obnoxious Ozzie blast at the beginning.

Interesting, but the movement is way too spastic. Could have been much cooler if the guy had a more cinematic approach.

Wonderful, breathtaking, skillful footage! Please post lots more of these so we can say 'Tut tut!' to.

High tech dizziness...

Talented. No doubt. He's an artist.

This is Also highly illegal, disruptive, a perfect example of how drone operators shouldn't behave, and perfect ammunition for those who oppose drone legality.

I usually don't hope that people get in trouble. But, the FAA should not tolerate this.

We have reasonable FAA regulations on maximum drone altitude. We need regulations on minimum altitude in relation to distance from operator off of private, leased, or property where one has reasonable permission.

Behavior like this makes regulations necessary.

Why call him a 'master' - why not just 'professional'?

"dpreview in no one condones this"
By sharing this to all your users you are in a way condoning what the drone pilot was going by sharing this video and giving it so much attention

I'm all for limited government, but as a lawful drone and RC airplane hobbyist, it is my opinion that this is exactly why the FAA needs to tighten up regulations regarding irresponsible flying of drones.

So he made himself a criminal while demonstrating great remote pilot skills.

Job interview for black ops?

I'm sure they'll make him an offer he can't refuse...

The beginning and the end of the video does show someone from that group illegally trespassing on the gated property. To even walk along the tracks is trespassing.

As a commercial drone pilot I found the video both exciting and disturbing. Can you imagine being on a railroad crossing with a semi while the train is approaching and the engineer is distracted by the drone outside his window? Not an issue? Then why did the engineer look to the right, get distracted and find it necessary to close his cab window?

99% of the time, I find that added music detracts from drone videos. Annoying and distracting. But not here. Good choice of music, not too loud, and fit well with the theme of the shoot.

And by sharing, are DPR not also encouraging and promoting this "illegal" activity?

If you travel from home to the office by car, you pose a bigger threat than all the drones in the world (well, apart from armed military ones), combined. Heck, wet floors represent a bigger threat than drones.

Why such hostility towards them at DPR? Because they can be pesky, like mosquitoes? Anything else? What's the deal?

Regulations do not make any sense. "Flying in line of sight", ha... What about autonomous cars? Do they (autonomous cars) happen to be lobbied better? Am I the only one seeing how absurd the situation is?

Flawed, inconsistent laws cannot be forced. In USSR, there was a saying that roughly translated as "Strictness of Soviet laws is compensated by them being nonobligatory". Very few seem to understand that concept these days, hence those "flying in line of sight" and similar requirements.

They artificially *create* outlaws. And if somebody breaks one rule, heck, here goes another, not a big deal now that he/she overstepped the line already...

excellent video! way much better than to see tons of legal boring crap shot by endless bunch of talentless law obeying stupidos

Great video!

Illegal? Maybe. Irresponsible? A little but the guy obviously knows what he's doing.

The fact is that people's hostility and scaremongering when it comes to drones is WAY out of proportion to reality thanks to the media sensationalism, it's one of those things people love to get irate about.

If that drone had hit the train it would have been like a fly hitting a car.

Much bigger risks to trains are wild animals, stray tree limbs, people walking on the tracks or driving over crossings when they know a train is approaching. But that doesn't sell as many newspapers and so doesn't get people pointing their fingers.

dpreview must be run by young people, looking for quick adrenaline rushes; it's rather immature if you ask me.

What's wrong with you people? "Illegal" doesn't necessarily mean "bad". The only danger in that movie was to crash the drone. Obviously a drone cannot do no harm to a freight train.

How long before a lb of PE8 with detonator is attached and.........?
Crowded stadium, freeway, runway, endless possibilities.
This looks like North America, it could be anywhere, 'We' REALLY need to start controlling these things.
I mean, you wouldn't let somebody run around in public, with say, a loaded assault rifle.......would you?
For every 5000 enthusiasts that have fun shooting paper targets, there is probably 1 nutter that needs to shoot people.
Why take the risk in an increasingly crowded world?
This is a much, much wider discussion, I know.
We can't even stop vehicle drivers with murderous intent.
DPR, you need to have a long hard look at yourself, regarding this.
God Bless America.