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Rough Day at the Office

Yesterday was one of those days that make this job a lot of fun. Just to give you an idea how fast it is, we departed in the Navajo 10 minutes ahead and leveled out at 9,500 doing 190 kts true. He caught up to us at the 20 minute mark, flew with us for about 15 minutes and then pulled ahead and arrived at the destination 20 minutes ahead of us. What took us 1:20 took him 50 minutes in economy cruise...and that includes him slowing down to play with us for 15 minutes. He burned 100 gph and we burned 40 gph.

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Best video I've seen in a while!
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I've got a good bit more...just takes forever to upload and edit.
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That was fun to watch. =D>

Thanks for sharing with us.
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Just as impressive in a way was how quiet the environment is, no engine noise from the Navajo. Must be some pretty good noise-X equipment in there. Looks like fun!
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EZFlap wrote:Just as impressive in a way was how quiet the environment is, no engine noise from the Navajo. Must be some pretty good noise-X equipment in there. Looks like fun!


The camera plugs directly into the audio jack in the panel and then your headset plugs into the camera so there is no outside noise to be picked up by the camera.

Here is another video....this is the video when he first caught up to us, toyed around with us, and then joined up on our wing. We were watching him sneak up on us with the fishfinder.

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Cool, Topher. Very cool.
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Lowflybye, Great video capturing your encounter! makes me have chills on my arm! You say the camera plugs into the headset? What type of device or camera you using?
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lownslow79 wrote: You say the camera plugs into the headset? What type of device or camera you using?


http://nflightcam.com/features/

The downside is that there is no internal mic on this model so without being plugged in there is no audio. I believe there is another model that has a mix and headset jack which you can select either / or
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