UR My Co-PilotThese videos consist of footage that I shot by placing a Sony Handicam on the right-hand seat of a Cessna 172SP, rented from Flight School Hawaii. This in July 2005, about one month after I got my Private Pilot's Certificate. For the "mounting" I simply put the camera on my tripod and aimed it, and then let it run. The camera's perspective is probably a little higher than most people would have. For sound, plugged a headset into the right seat jacks, and rubber-banded the ear cups together, with a microphone inside, which was connected to the camera audio input. It worked surprisingly well. The mic was small enough that I actually wore those headsets with the mic in one ear on other flights, and plugged it into a cassette recorder to record the cockpit audio. In my opinion, one of the more instructional aspects of these videos is the screw ups -- there's one go-around (a go-around is when you abort a landing and just take off again), and a few radio goofs, but it can be observed that radio goofs don't result in any real problems, you just correct and move on. If you're in the pursuit of a pilot's certificate, the details may be the interesting stuff. I trimmed pretty hard in some places to fit it into YouTube 10 Min. increments, but there are complete patterns, and complete radio procedures intact for your edification. |
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