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Aviation Forum / General / IFR / November 2008The "darker side" of flying (Night Landings) with ATC COMS - Video
Needed to get night current for an IFR flight next week. Since I have not flown at night for quite some time, figure to give me an adjustment period as day transitions to night. Video includes slow flight while waiting for the sun to set, watching the sunset from 3000 feet and two landings at KJAN. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-STNsb2ZC7A My next video will have the remainder of my landings back at KMBO. Night currency landings - video Video is a continuation of my night currency video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayv1Mq3FC9M This video captures one touch and go, one full stop landing and shut down. Video includes uncontrolled airport communications. Looking back at my log book it had been over 1 year (11/01.07) since I had done any night flying, Good overall exercise for me landing on runways of different widths. Cool! I've been messing with a Flip video, how'd you get the audio? Barry > Night currency landings - video > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Good overall exercise for me landing on runways of different widths. > Night currency landings - video Al, Here's one of mine... http://www.bburke.com/images/NightArrivalKHFD20.wmv I'd love to grab audio like you do! > atl...@gmail.com wrote: > > Night currency landings - video [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > I'd love to grab audio like you do! Link not working above??? I get file not found.... I bought a digital recorder and also a patch cord. http://aircraftpatchcord.com/ is where I got the patch chord. Total cost was $80 for both cord and recorder. You do not need an expensive recorder as I have a very cheap version. Setup, nothing to it. Literally, plug it, set it (turn it on) and forget it. Great way to time your flights LOL as I turn the recorder on once I flip the master switch on and turn the recorder off when I unplug it. Length of .mp3 file pretty much the time you were PIC of a plane! After flying, for my video, I put a prompt in when I turn the camera on so that I know where to start in the audio. Then it's a matter of syncing it up to the video. I say camera on and then camera off, and on the final product, I edit the prompt out. Stall horn loud enough to hear both through the digital recording and the camera audio, so landing syncing very easy. >> http://www.bburke.com/images/NightArrivalKHFD20.wmv >> >> I'd love to grab audio like you do! > > Link not working above??? I get file not found.... Weird... I sent it to others, and it worked. Sorry about that. Try hitting it from here: http://www.bburke.com/flying/videos.html > I bought a digital recorder and also a patch cord. > > http://aircraftpatchcord.com/ is where I got the patch chord. Total > cost was $80 for both cord and recorder. You do not need an expensive > recorder as I have a very cheap version. Ah-ha! That makes perfect sense! You just add the audio in when editing the video. Since there's no movement that coincides with the sound, it would be easy. I could ever record with laptop and sound card. I can build patch cords, etc... I thought you were recording it directly to the video. My cheesy camera doesn't have an Audio In jack. Thanks! > Weird... I sent it to others, and it worked. Sorry about that. Try > hitting it from here: http://www.bburke.com/flying/videos.html Worked, plus the benefit of viewing the other videos :-))) Didn't need much runway for your PVC landing! > Ah-ha! That makes perfect sense! You just add the audio in when > editing the video. Since there's no movement that coincides with the > sound, it would be easy. I could ever record with laptop and sound card. Somewhat true on the no movement. You have to be careful if ATC gives you a heading that you match up the turn with the instruction. In that case, I get the heading change, prompt myself "camera on for heading 220", turn the camera on and make the turn. This ensures that the movement / turn / bank of the cowling is in sync with the instruction. Or in my no gyro video, that the instruction matched up with the instrumentation values. I do adjust the volume downward on my video portion, but you still can hear me talk, so on low RPM situations, there is a slight "echo" if you listen carefully enough. Also sounds like my flap making a click in the indentation can be heard, so when I say flaps, in the video I listen for that click to sync up with me saying flaps. Other then these small nuances, it's not that bad in the sync process. Feel free to email me if you want/need tech details of the video editing aspect. Got a free programs that will help make it sooo much easier with the sound clips. > I can build patch cords, etc... I thought you were recording it > directly to the video. My cheesy camera doesn't have an Audio In jack. Cha-ching same situation, no audio in. My camera is just a shirt pocket size Kodak Easyshare point and shoot camera. Not the full blown version that really does run circles around mine for video quality. I just couldn't justify the cost for a full blown video camera, purchasing the "setup equipment" in the cockpit. > > Somewhat true on the no movement. You have to be careful if ATC gives [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > instruction. Or in my no gyro video, that the instruction matched up > with the instrumentation values. Good point. I have 60 minutes available on the camera, and lots more on a voice recorder, so I figured I'd just leave it on and splice later. The camera is a Flip Mino. I convinced my wife that she needed to buy one with _her_ spending money. ;^) I'm playing with ways to mount it to my headset, the support rod on the side of the glareshield, the right seat back, or suctioned to the left side window. I would have LOVED to have the AWOS audio on the PVC video. > I have 60 minutes available on the camera, and lots more on a voice > recorder, so I figured I'd just leave it on and splice later. The [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > I would have LOVED to have the AWOS audio on the PVC video. Now you know why I play the ASOS especially for the instrument approaches :-) The recordings says volumes when ceilings are extra low. Dicing and splicing easy enough and easy to edit out the blank spaces between transmissions. For my videos, I have purposely not edited out the blank spaces so it's as close to what I experienced as I can make it. Would not be hard to make it "sound busier" then what it really is :-)) I tried playing around mounting the camera on top of the visor of my ball cap. It actually works fine, but if you move your head a lot, it will be very, very distracting. I was surprised how much I moved my head whether it be scanning for traffic, reading the approach plate and such, so I decided on just leaving the camera on top of the glareshield with a portfolio binder propping the camera so it doesn't shift. Sounds like you have a good setup for the various angles with your camera. Be interested on seeing your outcome! > > I tried playing around mounting the camera on top of the visor of my [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Sounds like you have a good setup for the various angles with your > camera. Be interested on seeing your outcome! Today, I found an $8 Targus "table top" tripod. It's got a screw in between the three legs. I removed the screw, ditched the legs, and used the screw to mount the tilt / swivel assembly to a plastic woodworking spring clamp. I also put some rubber weatherstripping on the jaws to improve grip and protect the surface. The tilt / swivel is actually pretty nice for $8! It's machined aluminum, and locks quite securely. I've seen the tripod in K-Mart and Radio Shack. <http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_020W814377110001P?vName=Computers%20&%2 0Electronics&cName=Cameras&Camcorders&sName=Accessories&psid=FROOGLE&sid=KDx2007 0926x00003a> Preliminary tests in my Toyota Tacoma look promising! I'll try it in the plane Sunday, with the digital voice recorder I found today @ Staples. > <http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_020W814377110001P?vName=Comp...> > > Preliminary tests in my Toyota Tacoma look promising! I'll try it in > the plane Sunday, with the digital voice recorder I found today @ Staples. You do realize, after you get your first successful video, it's very, very addictive just like flying itself! I doubt that tripod will affect your W&B weighing in at a booming 5 oz. One thing for sure, anything mounted will far exceed the quality of handheld, hat cam, headphone mounted videos. I like the idea of that swivel head mount. > > You do realize, after you get your first successful video, it's very, > very addictive just like flying itself! I know that... NOW! <G> I can't wait to get the comms on the video. > I would have LOVED to have the AWOS audio on the PVC video. Meant to say in my other post, if you have two COMS and an external speaker, for future flights, put COM two on the external speaker. That is what I did before getting the patch cable and was clear enough to hear over the din of the engine. Sunset from 2000 feet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ha1U_foChw Last of my night currency videos. Thought the ATC instructions at the very beginning and the end were quite fitting. Privileged view from our heights needless to say. > Sunset from 2000 feet > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Privileged view from our heights needless to say. nice! |
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