We went along to see the Flying Scotsman locomotive arrive and leave Wansford station on the Nene Valley Railway.
I still need to get the subject more centrally on the screen, but my controls of the drone are certainly getting better. It was interesting to see how fast it would fly sideways to try to keep up with the engine.
I use a Potensic Atom.
Bloody marvellous. 6 chuffs for every revolution of the big driving wheels; 4 on a 2- or 4- cylindered loco but FS has got 3, the two you can see and one inside driving by an eccentric on the centre axle. You should be able to keep up with her (him?) on the Nene Valley Railway, which has a speed limit of 25mph.
One thinks of a 10 foot tiger in an 11 foot cage…
You got the subject centrally enough in the frame for my taste, QED. With a steam engine I find it best to place the cab in the crosshairs and zoom in/out around that. Keep the tender in the frame or the image looks ‘unbalanced’. You chose near perfect conditions for steam loco filming; there is less white steam about in warm dry weather than cool damp conditions, and it is the steam exhaust that gives the atmosphere, and shows how hard the engine is working. Of course you’ll never get a powerful loco like this working anywhere near hard on a level 25mph railway!
Video ?
I was talking about panning still photos, but the principle works for video as well.
Says the person that’s yet to post a single photo or video as evidence they ever actually fly a drone … let alone a perfectly composed one of a steam train.
Lovely video, bonus point for using Falling as the soundtrack.
Impressive work from the Atom also. 
A very good film/video - thanks so much.
Made my thoughts for the week soar before its begun.
Wasn’t aware that this was obligatory.
Rules of the Internet, or it never happened
Obligatory? No.
Does it give better than 0% credence to anything you post? Yes.
Until then people will believe you’re a bullshitter.
Quite simply, Googling and copy/pasting what you find isn’t cool.
I have heard the potensic atom is a great drone for beginners?? Is this true as I had a look at one and the specs looked great 
As a beginner, at least with a drone where the camera is on a gimbal, I’ve found it quite easy to learn the controls, but only in the last few months have I really been using them to view things in a more 3 dimensional way. So when I started I only used one control at a time, up or down, left or right, turning the drone. But now I find myself using 2 or 3 controls at the same time to get the views that I want.
So for instance where the drone flies over the train and the engine emerges from under the bridge, the drone was flying sort of sideways, turning and I was changing the camera angle to keep the engine in the centre of the shot at the same time.
I know the DJI drones are great and they have a great reputation, but I’ve owned the Atom since August, flown it in some quite miserable weather and got some great views of places we go to. So far I can’t really find fault with it.