I am trying to find a deal on a Contour camera.  They make a Contour
Roam that has a built in mic, a Contour GPS, which allows you to record
your track as well, and a Contour Plus that has GPS and an external mic
so you can plug it into your comm and record your ATC comms or you could
talk your notes into it as it films.  They run from under $200 to $500
depending on which model.  Records up to 32G of data.  They are all wide
angle HD up to 1080p.

 

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*From:* Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]
*On Behalf Of *Richard Sohn
*Sent:* Wednesday, June 20, 2012 7:30 PM
*To:* Rotary motors in aircraft
*Subject:* [FlyRotary] simple and affordable datacollection

 

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.

 

Richard Sohn
N2071U

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