Meet One of the World's Best Drone Pilots

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My name is Carlos Puertolas

but you know in the drone community,

I'm known as Charpu.

It's almost like a superpower,

is this complete freedom of movement.

I'm not a really competitive person.

I don't like to have that feeling like,

ah I want to beat this guy.

I prefer just to enjoying

and the kind of free style of it.

When I was younger I used to do a lot of extreme sports,

a lot of skating, snowboarding.

10 years ago I have an injury climbing,

and I completely broke my leg

and I had a few surgeries on my leg.

I wasn't able to kind of do those things anymore.

I discovered drone FPV flying

and slowly I realized that I was getting that same

adrenaline by doing this, without the danger.

It feels like an outer-body experience

and it almost feels like your inside

a completely different animal.

You're not a human anymore.

I've been doing the drone stuff

and posting videos online probably

for a couple of years now.

I never got so much attention.

It's pretty amazing,

I never expected anything like this to happen.

Where we're flying today is a little dangerous,

why, because there's a lot of metal.

It got stuck, right there.

Let's see if I reach.

It's the problem with frequency, you know,

and the interference that all of these metal parts create.

The view that I can see on my goggles,

sometimes gets a little fuzzy

because of all these metals,

and it creates lines.

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God, ahhh!

Idiot.

Here the camera's fine, everything's fine,

this model is not going to be the same

but it'll fly.

Well I'm here.

It is a little scary.

They're not toys you know.

There's a model that really spins really fast.

It has four propellers that spin really fast,

so obviously if you put your finger in the middle

its going to cut you.

So it's important to know, you know,

it's important to kind of respect them.

The QAV that I fly is called a Charpu X.

Completely designed for my taste

and it flys really amazing.

It's amazing to go to events

and have everybody kind of stopping

to say like, hey man thanks so much

because of your video I started flying.

Every time I hear that it just makes you want to fly more.

I definitely see it as an art form,

as a way of recording something that is not easy to see,

something that you don't see every day.

Alright!

A way of seeing an environment

in a completely different perspective.