{"id":1922,"date":"2010-09-20T18:59:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T18:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2010-09-21T08:18:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T08:18:40","slug":"flying-with-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/flying-with-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying with video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a really good day on Saturday but was too busy doing other stuff to write this up yesterday. A week ago I tried to link my camcorder into the comms system but without success because I&#8217;d connected a cable incorrectly. I&#8217;d planned a round trip out to Battle, Hastings and Rye passing overhead the Bewl reservoir and a return via Tenterden so on Saturday I made sure I connected the camcorder up properly this time. It was more in hope than expectation I have to admit, but in fact, I got 60 minutes-worth of video with excellent sound before the tape ran out just after Tenterden on my final leg back into Linton.<\/p>\n<p>As this was the first attempt, I wasn&#8217;t wholly surprised to find that I&#8217;d aimed the camcorder a bit too low so although I&#8217;ve edited the 60 minutes down to about 10 and will be placing the video in the gallery (more for sentimental reasons than anything else really \ud83d\ude42 ) I&#8217;ll not be including a direct link to it here on the main blog. But what I will show instead as a flavour of what I managed to get, is a short clip of the take off, so here&#8217;s the link to that. Just click on the pic to see the clip.<\/p>\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<!-- Begin Video.js Responsive Wrapper -->\r\n\t\t<div style='max-width:650px'>\r\n\t\t\t<div class='video-wrapper' style='padding-bottom:46.153846153846%;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t<!-- Begin Video.js -->\r\n\t<video id=\"example_video_id_416387915\" class=\"video-js vjs-default-skin\" width=\"650\" height=\"300\" controls preload=\"auto\" data-setup='[]'>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/video>\r\n\t<!-- End Video.js -->\r\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<!-- End Video.js Responsive Wrapper -->\r\n\t\t\n<p>I&#8217;ve got my Canon camcorder mounted with a cheap plastic clamp from Ebay on a cross tube behind me in the cabin and I&#8217;m very happy with these initial results. Changing the aiming is not a problem but what I&#8217;m particularly pleased about is the nice sound balance between background sound (engine etc), comms system and intercom. I think it bodes very well for the future and I&#8217;m looking forward to making some more videos while the weather is good, especially including take offs and landings.<\/p>\n<p>As the Autumn begins to approach, Bob announced at the week-end that Linton&#8217;s main runway will soon be closing and we&#8217;ll have to use the shorter Winter runway instead. To prepare myself, I thought I&#8217;d give it a go for both landing and take off on Saturday and had no problem with either. Partly it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been used to having trees at both ends of the runway and with Linton being so clear from both directions, it&#8217;s relatively easy I find to set your approach speed up pretty accurately making for very short landings. I&#8217;ll have to see how take offs go a bit later on when the ground becomes wetter and softer but as you can see from the YouTube clip, I got well away in plenty of time with runway to spare on Saturday. So solo at least, I don&#8217;t think there will be too much of a problem &#8211; I wonder if the faster Quik R boys will be thinking the same \ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have to wait and see how we all do, I think, just as we will with my future video exploits&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a really good day on Saturday but was too busy doing other stuff to write this up yesterday. A week ago I tried to link my camcorder into the comms system but without success because I&#8217;d connected a cable incorrectly. 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