No fly zone…

Well last week-end was for me anyway. I had to paint the weatherboarding on our house this year come what may and although Saturday was a bit windy, it was a dry weather window that I couldn’t afford to miss. So painting came first and as Sunday was wet and windy yet again, there was no flying for me at all over the two days. So all I could do was think about past flying pleasures and it gave me the chance to finish off the movie clip that I mentioned in my last post.

I got 60 minutes of video but was disappointed to find that as the camcorder had been aimed too low, much of it was pretty boring. I was very pleased to discover that the sound, though, was excellent, as this is something that stumps many microlighters who either end up with completely silent movies or ones with occasional passages of voice from their comms or intercom interspersed with long periods of silence. I was delighted to find that my clip included an excellent mix of everything – background engine noise, radio transmissions and voice from the intercom. I had to edit out most of the radio transmissions, though, because of the appalling noises that most light aircraft comms systems seem to transmit! Just click on the pic below to see the movie (that’s a shot approaching Rye, by the way).

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I know I said that I wouldn’t put a direct link to it on the main blog, but after seeing it, I changed my mind. It’s not the most brilliant effort because of the problems I mentioned above, but I just had to include it in the Gallery as it’s the first in-flight movie I’ve done. Now I know about the aiming problem and if I can also do something about cleaning the screen plastic a bit as well, future videos should be a little bit more ‘polished’. Have to wait and see 😉