I was on youtube looking for something else when I happened across this video. It's shot from a radio control flying craft off an upper deck of the Fantasy while docked at Castaway Cay. Very neat perspective!
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Interesting Disney Fantasy Video!
- Thread starter sweetpee_1993
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If you look thru that guy's videos there's other neat ones from his cruise. I wonder how he did this. I can't imagine DCL would've okay'd it. Wouldn't it be hard to sneak something like this onboard?
englanddg
One Little Spark...
You know I'm into this sort of stuff. That's awesome!
englanddg
One Little Spark...
I thought about doing this last year with a microcopter I have, but I was afraid I'd get in trouble...
He's using a quadrocopter with a gopro mount, most likely. Though, I have a microcopter with a 1080 camera on it that could make very similar videos, but based on the prop noise and other factors, I suspect he's got a small quadrocopter.
They'd be pretty easy to bring onboard. There are several compact models. The one I have (though it isn't powerful enough for my gopro) is about the size of a bottle of soda, and you can control it from your iphone or ipad, including first person views of what you are recording.
Fascinating! I have no idea what sound it's making. Hubby's asleep so I have the sound turned off. Looks like the guy did an Eastern judging by his other videos. That thing's got a heckuva range going!
englanddg
One Little Spark...
I would guess he's got one of these.
The video is very stable (something my microcopter doesn't do well).
Diassembled, it's not much larger in your suitcase than a pair of mens jeans.
englanddg
One Little Spark...
I caught shadow off it from this video. He definitely has a quadrocopter with a gopro mount, though not the model I posted a picture of. It's one of the cheaper barebones kits (cheaper because you build them yourself through kit orders rather than preassembled)...
The more expensive models are interesting because they'll sense battery life and have an "auto-home" feature. So, basically, you can sent them up in the air and let them sit there, and when they know their battery life is going out, they'll come home before the battery dies on their own, overriding manual controls.
Still, awesome!
alissafalco
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at point 35 in the video you can see the shadow of the plane he has. Look to the right of him
englanddg
One Little Spark...
Which video? The first or second?
alissafalco
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2nd
englanddg
One Little Spark...
Oh, nevermind, yeah, that was the same one I spotted.
englanddg
One Little Spark...
He has a nice rig. I've wanted a quadro like that for a while, but they can get fairly expensive if you don't build form a kit or scratch (which, the design isn't hard, and I could do either)...
The microcopter I got was to play with and learn how to handle drone recordings...the plan was I'd do a few flyovers of the ship...but I chickened out.
Got pretty good with the controls though!
The microcopter I got was to play with and learn how to handle drone recordings...the plan was I'd do a few flyovers of the ship...but I chickened out.
Got pretty good with the controls though!
Brian & Jill
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Those are awesome videos!!!!! I am into radio controlled stuff and I think that I might have to start looking into a quad copter they look fun and fairly easy to fly.
Disneyfalcon
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Wow! Those are so cool!
ChuckElias
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Ok, these are kind of cool. But I can't believe that DCL would allow it, if they knew about it. There are too many people who would bring them and fly them around the island. I'm not sure what they could do about it once you had it up in the air, but I'm pretty sure they would not want these to operate on the ships or the island.
Cesar R M
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@sweetpee_1993 , @englanddg in the video comments, he said he used a quadrocopter "DJI phantom"
stillgoofy
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Those were really awesome. Great perspective of the island from the air. Enough land there for few of us to make homesteads. 
GMRO
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Actually nothing good will come of this. The person who “stowed away” this model did not have permission nor insurance if anything went wrong to fly such a radio controlled model. It shows a total lack of responsibility of a person who has about $1000.00 to spend on a credit card who THINKS they I’ll get some airborne video on a private/commercial island built by Disney.
I’ve been in the R/C Industry/Sponsored Pilot and developer for the past 28 years. Over the past 2 to 3 years as we develop more items to allow a model to seeming fly almost by themselves more folks who do not understand the liability and responsibility of flying R/C models, be them QUADS; MULTIROTORS; HELICOPTERS etc, get into the hobby and RISK things they don’t understand or know anything about, i.e. doing exactly THIS. It is very concerning to folks like me who see constant postings of aerial videos on social media and etc like this. They fly over schools, busy highways, churches, and in populated neighborhoods. I’m not worried about big brother…or personal privacy…I’m more worried about the failure rate of these toys with their fly-away potential or even more the persons skill set and orientation ability as they fly in an unfamiliar area. These are toys with consumer grade components. They are not military quality by any means. And they are also mislabeled “DRONES” by the media who know even less about them. It takes a lot of things to work right for controlled flight. BUT it only takes 1 thing to fall out of harmony to cause flight failure and loss of control - no matter how GOOD a pilot you are. GRAVITY wins all the time at that point. “Murphy” is always around and can strike at any time for any reason and the result is always an uncontrolled crash.
All of these types of items are flying models with the potential of doing damage to persons if hit or property damage as well. That is why there are CLUBS with airfields to fly ALL R/C. It’s in a designated areas and not to be done in a crowded neighborhoods - because these things "fly-themselves". Are they easy to fly? SURE. BUT do good times go bad often? YES. Anyone ever see an R/C model fly thru a mini-van windshield on the highway at 60MPH+? Ever see the battery that powers these models…the electric motors on them… ignite and see the fire it produces? It’s over 1000 degrees and it needs NOTHING to kindle or ignite it. And it will melt and BURN everything in its path until it goes out. GOOGLE LI-PO fire and watch the video postings. Folks have lost cars, trailers and had house fires from Li-PO charging accidents. AND some are folks who actually knew what they were doing. The batteries are Lithium Polymer, LI-PO, cells. A lot bigger than your cell phone battery and if they go off from abuse or misuse or a crash/damage from another flight gone bad…its real bad when they go off. Normal fire extinguishers won’t put it out…only CLASS-D or sand suffocating it will. Think of that in a DCL stateroom going off.
Still impressed with the video?
Do don’t go to this persons “facepage” or YouTube channel and LIKE it or applaud this activity by any means. This was a huge RISK the person took and it shows a total lack of responsibility and understanding of liabilities when flying such models. Stowing away the model onboard with potential risk of battery failure/charging and fire on the ship as well as flying it around in an area NOT deemed or approved for R/C flying puts safety at risk for everyone. I don’t want to see this on one of my DCL trips. UNLESS it’s being conducted for Disney by Disney. This was not.
This is the beginning of bad things IF more fools attempt the same type of activity for their home movies.
I’ve been in the R/C Industry/Sponsored Pilot and developer for the past 28 years. Over the past 2 to 3 years as we develop more items to allow a model to seeming fly almost by themselves more folks who do not understand the liability and responsibility of flying R/C models, be them QUADS; MULTIROTORS; HELICOPTERS etc, get into the hobby and RISK things they don’t understand or know anything about, i.e. doing exactly THIS. It is very concerning to folks like me who see constant postings of aerial videos on social media and etc like this. They fly over schools, busy highways, churches, and in populated neighborhoods. I’m not worried about big brother…or personal privacy…I’m more worried about the failure rate of these toys with their fly-away potential or even more the persons skill set and orientation ability as they fly in an unfamiliar area. These are toys with consumer grade components. They are not military quality by any means. And they are also mislabeled “DRONES” by the media who know even less about them. It takes a lot of things to work right for controlled flight. BUT it only takes 1 thing to fall out of harmony to cause flight failure and loss of control - no matter how GOOD a pilot you are. GRAVITY wins all the time at that point. “Murphy” is always around and can strike at any time for any reason and the result is always an uncontrolled crash.
All of these types of items are flying models with the potential of doing damage to persons if hit or property damage as well. That is why there are CLUBS with airfields to fly ALL R/C. It’s in a designated areas and not to be done in a crowded neighborhoods - because these things "fly-themselves". Are they easy to fly? SURE. BUT do good times go bad often? YES. Anyone ever see an R/C model fly thru a mini-van windshield on the highway at 60MPH+? Ever see the battery that powers these models…the electric motors on them… ignite and see the fire it produces? It’s over 1000 degrees and it needs NOTHING to kindle or ignite it. And it will melt and BURN everything in its path until it goes out. GOOGLE LI-PO fire and watch the video postings. Folks have lost cars, trailers and had house fires from Li-PO charging accidents. AND some are folks who actually knew what they were doing. The batteries are Lithium Polymer, LI-PO, cells. A lot bigger than your cell phone battery and if they go off from abuse or misuse or a crash/damage from another flight gone bad…its real bad when they go off. Normal fire extinguishers won’t put it out…only CLASS-D or sand suffocating it will. Think of that in a DCL stateroom going off.
Still impressed with the video?
Do don’t go to this persons “facepage” or YouTube channel and LIKE it or applaud this activity by any means. This was a huge RISK the person took and it shows a total lack of responsibility and understanding of liabilities when flying such models. Stowing away the model onboard with potential risk of battery failure/charging and fire on the ship as well as flying it around in an area NOT deemed or approved for R/C flying puts safety at risk for everyone. I don’t want to see this on one of my DCL trips. UNLESS it’s being conducted for Disney by Disney. This was not.
This is the beginning of bad things IF more fools attempt the same type of activity for their home movies.