Superb video

Awesome.

All those dreams where you are flying.... at last, cyber reality.

Brilliant, and all filmed with a rc quad copter that costs less than a grand.

Just shows what the average guy can achieve now.

Remote control has come on since I was little, the height that thing went to! Seems so simple, fit on a small remote camera and away you go...I want one

I got one for Christmas Shifty, you need to factor in a Go-Pro camera and if you want a stable picture then you'll need a gimbal camera mount so they both add to the price.
The actual DJI Phantom quad copter it self is a brilliant piece of kit, anyone can fly these things. It acquires gps signal and locks it's location before take off, it is then super stable, let go of the controls and it just holds it's position.
As for the height they go to, well I think the 20 minute battery life is the limiting factor here, I set my max altitude to 2km.

The best bit, if you get lost or can no longer see the thing, just turn off the handset and it will return to the point where it acquired the gps lock so it just flys home.

Just wondering - in the UK, how many operators of these things are aware of the risks of lack of third-party insurance, or the Air Navigation Order?

At the very least I would recommend that any users pay the tenner a year to the BMFA to get the insurance.

(And I am reminded that under the ANO someone who landed a paraglider in the Queen's Park(?) in Edinburgh a few years ago got his paraglide confiscated and a fifty grand fine... the same would apply to one of these beasties.)