http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMEBZlQ3IuE
Don’t you just hate it when a guy gets a new video camera and starts posting a bunch of YouTube videos just to play with the new toy? Yeah…well, here’s another one!
Nothing but loops and rolls in the RV-3. The GoPro is head-mounted, so you see where I am looking, and it sure does feel like I am just riding atop the airplane, doesn’t it? No fancy music, just airplane noise. I was up about 4,000’, and all cloud clearance rules were observed – the high layer was a couple of thousand feet above me, the scattered Cu below weren’t that high. I threw the take-off video in there for anyone that wants to see what it's like to blast off from what amounts to a city street (our airpark). After a short acceleration, we climb out at about 2500 fpm.
Real aerobatic pilots would just call this “Floppin’ Around” – I just call it having fun. If you can stand watching to the end, the very last roll is at just about maximum aileron deflection – just about as fast as you can roll a -3 at 140 knots (or so).
So now I seem to have reached a minimum level of competency with the new camera, new computer, and Sony’s complicated moviemaker software – maybe I’ve got it out of my system…
Paul
Don’t you just hate it when a guy gets a new video camera and starts posting a bunch of YouTube videos just to play with the new toy? Yeah…well, here’s another one!
Nothing but loops and rolls in the RV-3. The GoPro is head-mounted, so you see where I am looking, and it sure does feel like I am just riding atop the airplane, doesn’t it? No fancy music, just airplane noise. I was up about 4,000’, and all cloud clearance rules were observed – the high layer was a couple of thousand feet above me, the scattered Cu below weren’t that high. I threw the take-off video in there for anyone that wants to see what it's like to blast off from what amounts to a city street (our airpark). After a short acceleration, we climb out at about 2500 fpm.
Real aerobatic pilots would just call this “Floppin’ Around” – I just call it having fun. If you can stand watching to the end, the very last roll is at just about maximum aileron deflection – just about as fast as you can roll a -3 at 140 knots (or so).
So now I seem to have reached a minimum level of competency with the new camera, new computer, and Sony’s complicated moviemaker software – maybe I’ve got it out of my system…
Paul
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