Has anyone used or tried mounting a very small video camera to the tailboom/vertical fin/horizontal fin to film the aircraft flying but with the camera pionting forward? I have found a small camera but am not sure if it would work and the issues around it.
Certianly vibration/drag/weight/cables/power are some issues but have found quite small cameras mounted on rally cars that obsorb high stress with vibration,g forces and different types of weather seems to work o.k. but having it mounted to a AS350 or MD500 is another kettle of fish.
I stumbled across a website that sells smaller cameras http://www.actionvideocams.com/
Any thoughts, ideas or leads?
Aft mounted Video Camera
- heli_79
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Aft mounted Video Camera
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Re: Aft mounted Video Camera
One of the aircraft I used to fly had a small pinhole camera securely attached to the horizontal stabilizer and the wiring run up through the inside of the tailboom. Worked a treat!
- skypig
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Re: Aft mounted Video Camera
Australian agents:
http://www.launchhelmetcams.com/fully-integrated/pov1.5
There could possibly be certification / EO issues for permanently mounted ones. I once flew an ex Blue Hawaiian AS350, it had several permanent cameras all over it and a boot full of VCRs.
See Skypig ride – “Pig cam” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7iHolLbPSQ
http://www.launchhelmetcams.com/fully-integrated/pov1.5
There could possibly be certification / EO issues for permanently mounted ones. I once flew an ex Blue Hawaiian AS350, it had several permanent cameras all over it and a boot full of VCRs.
See Skypig ride – “Pig cam” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7iHolLbPSQ
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Re: Aft mounted Video Camera
SkyPig,
Loved the video, nothing better than motards. Best of both styles. What you riding, 450?
WM
Loved the video, nothing better than motards. Best of both styles. What you riding, 450?
WM
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heli -79 if your keen. speak to Mark Fitzsimmons from blue sky in sydney has it installed on his 206. check his website under "helicam"
you can ask him if your desperate for info.
you can ask him if your desperate for info.
- heli_79
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Re: Aft mounted Video Camera
Thanks fellows. Some interesting bit's of kit.
Weatbix - Could you PM me with your details about the Aircraft described(Aircraft type and Operator) please?
Bladepitch - Could you PM me any details on how to contact Mark?
Sky Pig - Yeah, not sure about the legal stuff but our LAME thinks one could attempt it with little hassle. Love the wheelie down the main street!
Some new cameras transmit the images/data to a SD card which then can be transferred to a portable USB stick either by cable or by wireless. But with high vibration and noise by the tail rotor not sure if the images/data would come out o.k.
CAA and CASA aren't very helpful
Weatbix - Could you PM me with your details about the Aircraft described(Aircraft type and Operator) please?
Bladepitch - Could you PM me any details on how to contact Mark?
Sky Pig - Yeah, not sure about the legal stuff but our LAME thinks one could attempt it with little hassle. Love the wheelie down the main street!
Some new cameras transmit the images/data to a SD card which then can be transferred to a portable USB stick either by cable or by wireless. But with high vibration and noise by the tail rotor not sure if the images/data would come out o.k.
CAA and CASA aren't very helpful
Up, Up and away we go!
- skypig
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Re: Aft mounted Video Camera
It’s a KTM 525. (54hp, but it turns out I was over revving it at that meeting)
I think this is chiselled in stone and enshrined in legislation.
The helmet cam I have records onto a video camera – I think most now use HDD (The digital camera option is still the highest quality I believe)
CAA and CASA aren't very helpful
I think this is chiselled in stone and enshrined in legislation.
The helmet cam I have records onto a video camera – I think most now use HDD (The digital camera option is still the highest quality I believe)
- flyguy101
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Re: Aft mounted Video Camera
I know that channel 9 Sydney have one mounted in the tail or stabaliser, they use it in a promo a while back VH-TCN. The traffic chpper WYS has one too. from memory the one on TCN is mounted off the red nav light. make sure a LAME installs it. it is a great shot if you can organise it.
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Re: Aft mounted Video Camera
The original 12 Apostles Helicopters had them in the 206 , 120 and 350 , the later version on the SD card better quality then the old VHS.
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Back in the good old days we looked at fitting cameras to the EC130 I flew. As we were going to do it from new the quote approached $100,000.00!!!!
The reason? They had to test all the equipment to ensure it wouldn't interfere with the FADEC. Eurocopter won't even fit a Bluetooth kit to an aircraft with FADEC in case an errant signal tells the engine to do something abnormal! On top of that they had to get EO's to allow them to modify the various panels/structures to fit the cameras.
We also got a quote for an auto pilot : $300,000.00
We didn't do either.
CH
The reason? They had to test all the equipment to ensure it wouldn't interfere with the FADEC. Eurocopter won't even fit a Bluetooth kit to an aircraft with FADEC in case an errant signal tells the engine to do something abnormal! On top of that they had to get EO's to allow them to modify the various panels/structures to fit the cameras.
We also got a quote for an auto pilot : $300,000.00
We didn't do either.
CH
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Re: Aft mounted Video Camera
Back in the good old days we looked at fitting cameras to the EC130 I flew
What a shame you didn't get them, then you could have posted more photos of you, from even more angles!
P1
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Re: Aft mounted Video Camera
skypig wrote:...See Skypig ride – “Pig cam” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7iHolLbPSQ
That's nice Piggy but why is it that everyone else is going so much faster than you? Oh wait, no, you nearly passed someone!
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