Two seats, side-by-side; a cruise speed of 107 knots; and a mainstay of student pilots and CFIs everywhere: it's the Cessna 152! I'm David Allen, and I'm about to take you into the cockpit ... of Other People's Airplanes! As many of you know, this episode (the "pilot" episode, in fact) has been in the pipeline for a while. This has been a learning experience of epic proportions. I had to figure out how to mount cameras, what settings to use on those cameras, what shots to get, and how to get those shots. Because this is only my first attempt, I have already found some mistakes and corrected those. I have also made other mistakes since the filming of this episode. So while the quality of this episode, and probably the first several, is not the greatest, I hope you will stick around as I bring you this in-cockpit aviation experience. Perhaps the biggest mistake I made in this episode was forgetting to set the over-the-nose camera focus out to infinity. As a result, the Canon camera auto-focused on other things, like the cowl and the windscreen, leaving the sky and the ground blurry much of the time. The rest of the cameras were GoPro HD Hero cameras. These cameras are, unfortunately, susceptible to an effect called "rolling shutter" or "jelly effect". It is more visible during certain times in the episode, and far less in others. I have also learned that a small piece of masking tape is all that is needed to hide a lapel mic inside my shirt. In future episodes, it should ...
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
1983 Cessna 152 with Casey Allen
1983 Cessna 152 with Casey Allen Tube. Duration : 21.88 Mins.
Two seats, side-by-side; a cruise speed of 107 knots; and a mainstay of student pilots and CFIs everywhere: it's the Cessna 152! I'm David Allen, and I'm about to take you into the cockpit ... of Other People's Airplanes! As many of you know, this episode (the "pilot" episode, in fact) has been in the pipeline for a while. This has been a learning experience of epic proportions. I had to figure out how to mount cameras, what settings to use on those cameras, what shots to get, and how to get those shots. Because this is only my first attempt, I have already found some mistakes and corrected those. I have also made other mistakes since the filming of this episode. So while the quality of this episode, and probably the first several, is not the greatest, I hope you will stick around as I bring you this in-cockpit aviation experience. Perhaps the biggest mistake I made in this episode was forgetting to set the over-the-nose camera focus out to infinity. As a result, the Canon camera auto-focused on other things, like the cowl and the windscreen, leaving the sky and the ground blurry much of the time. The rest of the cameras were GoPro HD Hero cameras. These cameras are, unfortunately, susceptible to an effect called "rolling shutter" or "jelly effect". It is more visible during certain times in the episode, and far less in others. I have also learned that a small piece of masking tape is all that is needed to hide a lapel mic inside my shirt. In future episodes, it should ...
Two seats, side-by-side; a cruise speed of 107 knots; and a mainstay of student pilots and CFIs everywhere: it's the Cessna 152! I'm David Allen, and I'm about to take you into the cockpit ... of Other People's Airplanes! As many of you know, this episode (the "pilot" episode, in fact) has been in the pipeline for a while. This has been a learning experience of epic proportions. I had to figure out how to mount cameras, what settings to use on those cameras, what shots to get, and how to get those shots. Because this is only my first attempt, I have already found some mistakes and corrected those. I have also made other mistakes since the filming of this episode. So while the quality of this episode, and probably the first several, is not the greatest, I hope you will stick around as I bring you this in-cockpit aviation experience. Perhaps the biggest mistake I made in this episode was forgetting to set the over-the-nose camera focus out to infinity. As a result, the Canon camera auto-focused on other things, like the cowl and the windscreen, leaving the sky and the ground blurry much of the time. The rest of the cameras were GoPro HD Hero cameras. These cameras are, unfortunately, susceptible to an effect called "rolling shutter" or "jelly effect". It is more visible during certain times in the episode, and far less in others. I have also learned that a small piece of masking tape is all that is needed to hide a lapel mic inside my shirt. In future episodes, it should ...
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