First Solo and a great kid!

drgwentzel

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Flyers,

Here is a short 4 minute video of one of my student’s first solo’s. He’s a great kid and a lot of fun to train!

Also, I've noticed that a lot of flying videos are pretty raw..I wanted to raise the bar a bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLc52ml3SUE

It’s short, I promise… :yes:

Gene
 
Great job with the video! He looked pretty smooth, congrats to both of you!
 
Nicely done video, and congrats to Chris too. What a great memento to have of such a fun and memorable occasion.
 
Greta video! Congrats to your student! Reminds me of when I solo'd. Brings back that feeling of happiness.

I hope to solo my student tomorrow afternoon. He was so close Saturday and we ran out of time due to other reservations. I won't be able to get in cockpit video like this but I will be taping him from the ground.

David
 
Great video. I laughed a couple times, when he's up in the air and says "oh ****" and when he landed and kept saying "I'm alive!" because I remember saying those same exact things. I also remember the grin on my face the whole time.

Awesome that he's got a good video of the experience.
 
The **** eating grin is so nice to see...nice job...
 
Nice video.
How many cameras do you have in that plane :)
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
Nice video.
How many cameras do you have in that plane :)
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I have 7, but I only put 4 in the plane. I had a hand-held camera on the ground. So 5 were altogether.

As any video editor will tell you, you just can't have enough camera angles and "footage" <-- hey, can we even use that term anymore since we don't use film. We really don't have "footage" in videography ...I guess there should be a new term for digital media...hmmm...I guess "digital media" works.

Gene
 
Hmm, how does one replace "footage" in the digital world? There are no hundreds of feet of film on a reel anymore, instead they were replaced with digital bits stored as ones and zeroes. So "bittage", there you go. You're welcome! :lol:
 
Btw, loved the smile on the kid's face. I see those a lot in first-solo videos. When I soloed, I did not own any fancy digital equipment to record it (heck, I still don't own any) so I have no idea whether I was grinning ear-to-ear like that.

Congratulations to Chris and best of luck in further training and flying!
 
Nice job congrats to the both of you,love the grin.
 
BigBadLou said:
Hmm, how does one replace "footage" in the digital world?
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Why worry about it? Heck, we're probably going to be "dialing" phone numbers and "typing" on keyboards for years to come. Anyway, the only things I remember about soloing are being absolutely committed to landing the airplane, and being really surprised at how much better the thing climbed with only one aboard.

I also love that grin--great video!

Tim
 
I was smiling the whole time he was. Good job on the video.

How did you get the cams to zoom in flight like that.
 
I know that grin. It's the same one I still have every time the wheels come off the ground. I hope that never changes.

Congrats on the first solo.
 
Not that I'm a Flyers fan (was that shirt worn on purpose?), but that would be a hell of an expensive shirttail! I guess it's a better omen than say... the Calgary Flames?
 
Pghsteel said:
I was smiling the whole time he was. Good job on the video.

How did you get the cams to zoom in flight like that.
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Video editing is the secret.

That is the most common question I get, "Are those remote control camera's?" Did you have a live feed to zoom those camera's?"
 
Great Job CFI and student pilot! Really nice video editing (and good use of the simulated panning/zooming).
 
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