Amazing drone POV piloting skills

[yugi]

Here's one for Pono and other drone pilots. I've little experience but know via you guys how tricky drone POV flying can be. Enter the generation of kids who grew up spending hours a day on video games.

http://qz.com/602230/theres-now-a-drone-racing-league-that-feels-like-pod-racing-from-star-wars/

[Beasho]

Cool stuff.  Really cool.

Here's how you can get started $80 from Target.  HD SkyViper.  Simply stunning for the price:

PS:  This is how we walk the dog when too tired from surfing 

[Off-Shore]

That is pretty awesome stuff.. Clearly the pilots cannot see their drone for parts of this..

[yugi]

^ doubt the pilots are looking at anything else other than  the drone POV

[RATbeachrider]

It's not that hard.  You started out with the small durable plastic one before racing on the racing one as shown.  A group of guys raced Saturday and Sunday at El Dorado Park in Long Beach

[Weasels wake]

Betting on packing the stands with screaming fans?  Really?
You can barely see them as they whiz by, and there is no danger, you'll need danger to make the fans show up.
Maybe strap little bunnies or kittens to them or something.
Maybe drone to drone rockets to take each other out during the race, but they'll need something, that alone won't do it.
I'd rather watch battle-bots, now that's inventive.

[Tom]

Put paper streamers on them for air to air combat like model airplanes

[PonoBill]

Nice piloting, but who in the world is dumb enough to think this could be a spectator sport.

[bigdom]

nascar fans 

[SlatchJim]

I heard on the news this morning that ISIS is training falcons and eagles to take out drones.

[Bean]

I heard on the news this morning that ISIS is training falcons and eagles to take out drones.

Love this clip!

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/84319254/

Ironically, it would take more man hours to train a raptor than to build a drone...

[stoneaxe]

I heard on the news this morning that ISIS is training falcons and eagles to take out drones.

I heard the same but it was the Dutch Police.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/dutch-police-train-eagles-to-take-out-drones/

[PonoBill]

The drones that isis is worried about would suck up an eagle and spit it out.

[ninja tuna]

test...

[Zooport]

That vid made me motion sick.