If you try it again. 1. Fly backwards. It will feel more natural with the drone facing the same way you are, and you won’t need to worry about the forward sensors. 2. Wear a jacket with long sleeves. If the drone heads toward you, your natural response will be to put your arms up to protect you. With a jacket, you will be less likely to freak out during landing. 3. I was waiting the whole video to say this . . . I think we’re going to need a bigger truck! ;-)

Also, you're a brave man for flying the drone so close to your crotch...

This was some nail-biting suspense, I could feel my heart-rate go up as the drone approached! Really well filmed, nice job!

*walks into the emergency with a rotor blade stuck in genetalia* "What happened?!" "Uh, well.. you know.. things."

Chris, if you disable obstacle detection, and then most importantly, under advanced vision settings, disable the downward vision position, you will be able to land it on any moving surface. This is the same feature you need to turn off if you want to hang something under the Mavic without it shooting into the sky automatically trying to avoid it. Once this is off, you can land full speed. It won't slow down as it approaches the ground. In fact, it will SLAM into the ground at max vertical speed (i.e. doing damage). But, it's a way to get it to ignore the surface or any forward movement.

Dude! That's intense, awesome video Chris! This might be a start of a new drone challenge trend. Haha!

I'm usually a drone snob, but this was great! One thing I didn't see mentioned was the massive turbulence that is created behind the truck. I use the following method for spot landings: 1.) Get used to landing manually. 2.) Develop a set routine of commands (usually forward/down) and get used to where that puts you. 3.) ONLY AFTER YOU HAVE MASTERED STEP 2, find the appropriate place over the truck bed and execute this maneuver. Trying to react to the drone in turbulence is futile. Perfect your landing, then trust your skills and use them!

I was literally crying laughing after that first crash! These videos are amazingly funny, keep up the good work!

This is one of the most entertaining videos I've seen in a longtime.

Great video! I was thinking whether it is possible to take off and land from a yacht. Your video gives a clear answer.

Great fun and entertaining video Chris. Cheers from the UK

Thanks for the video. I also had serious trouble trying to land on the deck of a cruise ship whilst it was moving slowly forwards. It's actually much harder than you think. I wonder if you track your self and let the mavic follow you and then gradually control the mavic down, would that work?

Your channel is awesome man. Great vids.

im new to this whole drone thing and i just bought a mavic pro platinum so ive watched a shitload and i mean a shitload of videos and this by far had my attention during the whole video. very good thank you for a normal video o yeah and a normal truck not like most vids in a fancy car or viewing there mansion of a house i know not all the videos but a lot of them do it so again loved your video keep up the good work.

Dude I love your videos, keep it up

Really cool Chris, Thanks for posting. Just for those whom will try this challenge in the USA, please be aware of FAA Part § 107.25 and do this in uncrowned/less-populated areas (as mentioned in part B). Also be aware of your local State laws as they differ by state. Part § 107.25 Operation from a Moving Vehicle or Aircraft No person may operate a small unmanned aircraft system - A) From a moving aircraft; or B) From a moving land or water-borne vehicle unless the small unmanned aircraft is flown over a sparsely populated area and is not transporting another person's property for compensation or hire.

Chris, great attempt! I'm with you, I would have thought this would be relatively easy, or at least do-able after a few tests. Much harder than it looks! Thanks for sharing, and for being willing to put your Mavic through some abuse to get the shot! PS -- I watched your abandoned hotel footage you shot (presumably the next day from your comments), excellent work! Did you use the Point of Interest mode in order to get that orbital shot of the exterior of the building, or just fly that manually?

I’m actually glad you posted this. I’m doing some traveling with a boat ride and I thought I could probably land on a moving target…I might have been wrong.

Extremely awesome and fun video to watch!!! Kudos for trying though!!!

MAN... I respect you for trying so hard. it might work if you have a net kind of base to catch the drone when it lands... so that i won't flip over... you're the champ man!!

Great video. Best video I have seen all day. You are very brave. You could easily make that landing with a racing drone. The manic is cool but not easy to precision work like that.

Enjoyed that... (I think I would give myself more flight time with the drone before attemping that. but just out of curiosity am I right in thinking the home location can be set to where the controller/phone is? will it return home to a moving target?

Chris I enjoy this clip and you have a hell of a courage to do this. I can't even think about wrecking my Mavic! Hell no! Subscribed!

From what I have seen/read/watched, the Mavic works really well with return to home/land when you snap a pic of the takeoff landing area..... Get it up over the bed of the truck, snap a pick of the star in the truck bed, THEN start moving..... Once you're up and moving it might be easier to give it the land command...... just a thought, great video!

thanks for sacrificing and risking it! Great to know what a challenge it is!

Thank you for this test!

Good video Chris. Very entertaining for sure! I had my doubts about this from the beginning, but maybe it's possible somehow? The problem is maintaining forward momentum to match truck speed while also bringing the motors to a full stop. If you do a second attempt at this I'll be very interested to follow along!

Glad people like you do this so I dont have to :)

Haven't gone through all the comments, pardon if this is spam, but thinking the air turbulence of the vehicle, even at just 20 mph, might make for a tricky landing? So, maybe matching wind speed and direction, ie - on a boat, would be a good trial?

Were you trying to do that in GPS mode?? That would explain why it was sliding off the back of the truck in landing mode. its using gps to hold its position while landing while your moving down the road.

Hey Chris try coming in backwards so your stic relatively is easier to control and also turn off all avoidance so you don’t get the noise that was bothering you or simples try on beginner mode and just keep it close! All has an easier effect on controlling quad?

Love you bro and your experiments

Great video. I didn't think it would be that tough to land on a moving platform.

Thank you for doing something just because you can, at your own expense, to show us what we shouldn't try. [big ass grin] Seriously, that was very educational...and entertaining!

Hey, what DSLR do you use to film this video? And what mic? Thanks

Feel good about it. You gave it more try than any viewer!

This is a great argument for buying a Mavic Pro. 20mph crashes onto a paved road and it still works great! Arms didn't break off, props stayed intact and the camera still worked; nor did the battery pop off. (Seriously impressive) This kind of drone is in my future as I'm a totally new to drones. Any suggestions for a good drone to learn on before dropping a house payment on the Mavic?

Nice video. You should have used the toe-in command right when the Mavic got low. Can't wait to fly mine, just unboxed it.

sick video again dude!

Great video! Just came from watching max distance test!

This guy proper crack me up. reminds me of me just experimenting with the drone too. was kinda waiting for that thing too go in his face loool glad I guess it didn't happen cos that would hurt. keep doing your thing man! good videos :)

Man this was a strong effort! It can be done! I have not attempted a moving truck but have landed on my boat deck in motion on water! It was literally sink or land bud!

Cool video, I could feel the thrill! Try witch CSC maneuver next time 👍

Man, you are crazy! Almost i die of a heart attack for each landing attempt. Great video btw!

awesome video man! i had the exact same intense experience when i tried to land mine on a kayak! It'd be awesome if you'd try again in a slower pace

Nice try Guys great to watch. I can see it must be hard to do that.I think it is hard to land when you need to make the drone fly forward at the same time to land it. I do think it can be done with a lot of practice.

'failure is always an option' - I'm so impressed by ure perseverence and commitment to the cause, the least I could do is a thumbs up! just to increase the like to dislike ratio!

thanks for trying and sharing :) I'm trying to find out if I'll be able to operate Mavic from large ship :)

I was wondering. When you reach a foot up the platform while fling, you could use the option of pointing both sticks down inside. Like this you will stop the rotors (emergency usage) and then the drone will land (a bit rough maybe) but will. I'm thinking about it for some footages to be done in some sail boats here in the Caribbean, which means landing in movement. Ah, other thing. Maybe hand landing can works as well? At least you can grab it tight and put the left stick down to stop the rotors. You could try when have chance. Maybe can works. Do the tests in safe places as you have done. Cheers,

OMG - the Mavic is so tough, and you are so very, very brave!

Great video. LOL. I would never try something like that with mine, but it was very entertaining.

Can you try to use Active Track while landing? It might work, especially for both Magic and Spark

Man every time I watch you, you get me stressed as hell!! NO MIND bro!!

I would like to know if Mavic will track a moving remote control if set as Home Point.

Very cool! maybe do emergency power off next time.

Hey man awesome video! Just a quick tip have the drone facing the way your facing and fly backwards to land it it's easier

Hey Chris, I tried landing on a moving boat at the start of the year. Let me put my video together and I'll send you a link...

Very entertaining and instructional. Would probably work with a 3 0r 4, by grabbing the leg(s). Now I know one thing not to try. Thanx vm!

Hey man have you tried the Litchi app?

You deserve a lot of credit for making the effort. Balls of steel too. I would have first tried it at a much slower speed. Maybe even tried without riding in the truck. Take off while the truck is moving, then set it quickly back down. German in a little practice. You'll do it.

It's good to see how difficult it is. It's like being on moving boat and trying to land your craft. At least you didn't lose your craft in water.

This looks like a good drill for increasing your piloting skills!

really appreciate your works.... it reminds me to knight rider...

A valiant effort. I'm not sure if this can be done. If it uses GPS while landing it would see the motion. But if it only uses the ultrasonic sensor and down facing cameras it should be possible. These things have so much "smarts" it simply might refuse to power down if it thinks it's still moving. I think it's probably possible. You could always "hand land" it of course. Just get it close and pull it out of the sky.

I respect your amazing tenacity and being able to watch your drone fall over and over again. You're a man of steel balls. I'm not sure if I could do that if I owned a $999 dollar flying device. Just a thought, did you have the obstacle avoidance turned off?

Why was the gimbal protection cover still on? I thought they had to be taken off before you turn it on.

I would try cutting the engines right as your coming down. There's control feature you can turn on that will cut the power during light by aiming the sticks a certain way.

be cool if they could add a locked velocity to your flight, or a match velocity to track point, be very hard to do manually anyhow, especially with controls that sensitive!

Nail-biting stuff! I was thinking maybe a blanket on the floor of the truck and hit emergency cut off at the just the right moment if the cut off actually stops the props immediately.

we call this an abuse of drone man !! my heart already broaken

I was intrigued, and like one other poster, I found myself leaning left and right and wanting to help you land it. It appealed to my desire to increase my skills and the whole question of "is it possible?" piqued my interest. Braver man than me (for both drone and ball damage risk) Pity though, I scrolled down a long way and found a few "i could do it" responses but didn't find any links to verify their claims. I'd be interested to see if anyone actually succeeded. Inquiring minds want to know!!!

Thank's for trying, guy! Hello from St. Petersburg, Russia, your experience was funny and useful 👍

LOL, had to watch full screen in case it got gory/extra exciting from coming in too hot. Don't think I could have held my legs open like that on approach... 'you got blade marks on your roll-bar' ha!

great content!! i also got the mavic and i want to carry it to the us is there's any regulation on carrying the mavic to the us?? Thank you keep the good work!!

You are the best drone pilot bro ..try your best move next time..then i’m gonna try my mavic 2 pro sometimes on how it works

i dont know why so many dislikes? it was cool idea !! i cannot afford to do that but many people can, well done mate for the video

Awesome video now we have a idea bravest Pilot out there good information for the rest of us sorry about your Mavic

Thanks Chris for the demo....attempts. I don't own a Mavic but thinking about getting one. I've wondered myself if it could be landed on a moving object as well. Reading through the comments, many of them make a lot of sense. It was a bit freaky when it approached you with the loud buzzing sound. I kept wondering if you would lose your balls during one of those approaches, lol. Good try my friend. I think this might not be your last test.

Great try! You've made sth I wanted to try for a long time.. I think you have to turn off the forward obstacle sensing.. it will affect the motion of entry to pickup trunk. Meanwhile, how about put a more flat maybe wooden plate in the trunk instead of leaving the zigzag floor.. definitely would like see you make a second shot. LOL

oh God, you're so brave, I was screaming everytime you try to land it.

Very impressive as to how much punishment it can take and yet still work perfectly! Esp. the gimbal surviving two serious crashes !

Nice work! That did not look easy and I think the Drone is pretty durable. Im guessing its the draft from the pickup cab thats messing with it right as you try and stick the landing.

Love to see you try again. I may try myself. People do it in boats RIGHT?

This cannot be done, there is no way that the aircraft will land while it detects a forward velocity. It just assumes that it's flying at 10mph straight into the ground. The only way I can think of it to hand catch it or else come in faster and as low as possible then use the emergency engine kill (same as the engine start) so that the rotors are stopped and it drops to the floor. If you aren't fast enough it will slide of the back of the truck again. Did you have the collision avoidance on? Was that the incessant beeping every time you got close, it sounded like it.

I just wanna point out that you are *not* making all drone pilots look bad, because in this video, you weren't doing anything illegal (like other KZfaq pilots tend to do) and you were far away from other people.

@Chris Rollins Bro, love these vlogs. I can see that you are under the impression that you should fly with the clear dome on. YOU SHOULD NOT! lol. It is just to protect the gimble during transport, but needs to be removed because A) ALL of your shots are going to be fuzzy and reflecting the light onto the lens and B) it obstructs the airflow from cooling the Mavic; like a turbo charger for an engine, except this engine requires that airflow or it will overheat and damage the Mavic. Hope you read this while your Mavic still functions. I know that the Mavic is hot enough to boil an egg when it's finished it's flight because you're flying with that dome on slowly ruining that awesome little drone. LOL Love your vids and like how ya think. Peace bro and keep 'em comin'.

Hi Chris, you're best off flying it backwards so at least the controls are easier! Great video thou!

I have noticed that once it is landing you have almost no control over the mavic as far as directional control. I am sure the wind just blew it out of the truck in that state because you had very little forward stick at that point and props are still on until it lands. It needs a expert mode where we have full control of it.

You need to pull the two center stick in and down. That cuts the motors completely. Just a suggestion. Great video btw.

I did land the mavic on a trailer behind my car driving 20 km/h approx 15 m/h. Flew above trailer, kept throttlestick (pitch) in position and moved slowly fwd as i started to pull left stick to zero to compensate for rpm drop. worked fine on first attempt. switched off obstacle avoidance to stop that beeping :-)

this is not a gps problem, it's a wind resistance issue. once it lands on the bed, it continues to move whatever direction or speed the truck is. put a topper on the truck (or wide rubber feet on the landing gear) and disengage the rotors completely when it lands, and you're golden.

I've done it several times on a boat. You have to hand catch it otherwise it will always slide as soon as it touches a surface. The Mavic need to be tilted forward to be able to move forward. Another suggestion is to come in in reverse, basically facing away from you, makes it more intuitive on the controls.

Did u turn the obstacle detection/the ground sensors off? if you didnt, it will resist landing and try to get altitude/slow down the forward motion. Disclaimer: i dont recomend hand catching or landing on moving obstacle ;)

Mavic's Joystick kinda complicated .. it's more easy if you try phantom 4/pro landing on moving platform & if you wanna take off on moving platform .. make sure switch the drone into Attitude mode .. do not use GPS mode to take off on moving platform

why you fly with front cover on ? They said is block cooling system, and must be out all the time

Its a bit late but if you want to that it would be better to practice with a cheaper drone. The problem is that once the drone in landed I guess you let go of forward move which physically is equal to landing the drone on the not moving ground then as soon as it landed pull the ground off from underneath it by 10 m/h To achieve that you need to gradually slow down forward moving force after it landed, not letting it go at once. I am not sure how easy is that with drone controller, I am gonna receive my drone in few days so I was watching some videos about it to learn some stuff but I definitely won't do this test on it. :)

some good ideas man!!! love your think of some crazy shit to try haha, ur sooooo keen with your crotch exposed like that!! and that first pass u did and u said maybe needed neck protection!! was maaaaaad haha thanks man

Aerodynamics. The air is streaming over the trucks cabin and then it drops to try to fill the low pressure directly behind it. When the drone is approaching you and coming down, it's being hit by that air stream, which pushes it back. When you did get it through that stream, then it lunges forward, like when it almost hit you and it hit the roll bar.

Great also :-) was wondering if you make it. Why didn´t you put a blanket on the truck to prevent the drone from slipping. Would have been my idea. But anyway,GOOD !

Tried a "similar" thing with my Inspire 1. Tried to have the craft hand caught on a slow moving sail yacht. I did this in GPS mode and not ATTI mode. Once you center the sticks, the craft wants to stay in that exact GPS location. Hence it is doing 0 mph and the truck is doing 20 mph. The laws of physics dictate that the Mavic "flies" out the back of the truck. Unfortunately the Mavic doesn't have ATTI mode. If you tried with a Phantom in ATTI mode, the craft would have a momentum (flying forwards at about 20mph) when the sticks were centered, allowing you to lower it onto the truck. Someone covered their Mavic with aluminium foil creating a version of ATTI mode. By the way I ended up crashing my I1 onto the deck as the battery was getting low. Better than ditching in the ocean. It was then I realized ATTI mode would have helped. I never did try again. Another way would be to have the truck going backwards, take off from the truck and play the video backwards.