Denver to Albuquerque Time Lapse

[Joe Zuffoletto]

I shot this video from my Acclaim Type S on a recent flight from Denver Centennial (KAPA) to Albuquerque Sunport (KABQ). I used an NFlightcam+ with a USB power adapter plugged into the plane's accessory socket.

I have a love-hate relationship with the NFlightcam. The video quality is great, the camera mounting options are vast... but it's just not reliable on long flights. I've never been able to get more than about 2 hours of video before something goes wrong. In this case, the final third of the video was lost to file corruption in the camera. I tried several recovery programs, to no avail. This video would have been great if I could have captured the flight start to finish, but like a few flights before this one, it just didn't happen.

I have a Canon Powershot S95 that takes terrific video, so I'm going to find a way to rig it up in my plane to capture long flights.

[stevesm20b]

Nice video. Too bad the last third was lost.

[Oscar Avalle]

Really nice video. I also use a Contour camera... Good to know that they are not reliable after they run for a certain time. On the Powershot, indeed they take great videos, however it seems that their recording time is limited to 7 min... I have not been able to figure out how to change that setting.

Oscar.

[Joe Zuffoletto]

Oscar, you're right about the PowerShot. Apparently once the movie file reaches 4GB in size the camera stops recording. I found a website where they talk about hacking the camera to get around this, but that's way too much trouble.

[Oscar Avalle]

Joe,

I agree... way to complicated and considering that this is my wife's camera... I better make sure that I don't mess up...otherwise no flying...

BTW I use a RAM suction cup for the powershot camera insider the cockpit.

Oscar