Drone pilot captures spectacular footage of volcano erupting

Cameraman Bjorn Steinbekk discusses the spectacular footage he has captured with drones of a volcano erupting in Iceland. The volcano is spewing lava after weeks of intense seismic activity in the country’s southwest. “With a drone, I can get pretty close … the police have been really helpful with media, they’ve let us up to a kilometre away,” Mr Steinbekk told Sky News Australia. “The beauty about the DTI drones which I use is that the system you have in place for obstacle avoidance actually detects heat. “It’s not meant to do it, but it actually detects the heat, so you start getting warnings on the remote so that sort of gives you an indication that you’re getting a little bit too close.”