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Richard Sohn wrote:
> Bouncing around what to do about monitoring my single rotor, on the
> ground and in flight, I looked at a zillion of possibilities. Non met my
> requirements of being simple and affordable and still doing the job. I
> even went so far as building a timer for my small camera taking a
> picture every few seconds. I never finished it.
> Now I discovered GoPro, and suddenly my problems were solved.
> The first picture is what the camera is taking, and the second is zoomed
> in to whatever I want to look at.
> The camera is clipped to my front harness taking pictures at the rate I
> set it to.
> I think every first flight should have it so the pilot does not have to
> worry about not reading engine data, and can safely fly the airplane.
>  
> Go to GoPro.com for spec.

I like that.  All except that VSI.  It would be much nicer if that needle was pointed a little higher 8*)  I do like
where the ASI is moving, though.