Time Lapse

[dfw_pilot]

Can you control the rate?

Only in post, and it isn't very pretty. For better results, I'd probably have to 'Go Pro'.

[SACole]

For better results, I'd probably have to 'Go Pro'.

Ahhh. I see what you did there.

I recently got a Go Pro and I think with what I have seen, you could benefit from it.


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[LoneRanger]

dfw_pilot, one more question, sorry if it's off topic. I read that pilots don't have a chemical oxygen generator in the pilots cabin. True or false?

Bueller? ............ Bueller?

[Michael Wise]

[dfw_pilot]

This is way off topic.

False, we do have a couple oxygen generators in the cockpit (I've never heard the term pilots cabin before). We actually have both, a gaseous system from a tank and generated. The main system is a oxygen tank that connects to our quick-don masks. The masks come out of a compartment and use O2 pressure to inflate a harness that we slip over the our heads, and then the mask and face shield suck up to our face. The generators are in pouches called PBE's, or protective breathing equipment. We can yank those out of their pouch, and it's a self contained "smoke hood" that covers us from the shoulders up. Once we put it on, the O2 is generated and won't stop until it depletes, around 15 minutes. We use those if we need to fight a fire or escape through the fire. In real terms, if the situation was so bad I had to fight a fire with the PBE, the odds are I wouldn't be able to continue to contribute to BL/ATY. On board fire is about the worst thing that can happen. 17 minutes is all we get. So, when we're over the North Pacific 1,000 miles from land . . .

Here's a picture of our mask from the manual:

[dfw_pilot]

Here's a picture of a PBE (from the internet).

[LoneRanger]

This is way off topic.

Yes, but many of us envy your job. I know I do.

[dfw_pilot]

I appreciate that and understand. Maybe someone will start an Ask the Pilot thread -- I know we have several pilots here!

[Alan]

We call those EEBD's.

[dfw_pilot]

This one is lame, in a Highway to Heaven kinda way. We broke through the clouds off the Japanese Coast to enter the brilliant clear early morning sunrise. The bump at the end is us climbing from Flight Level 330 to FL340 (33,000 feet to 34,000 feet).

[Redtenchu]

Wow, what a view!

[HoosierLawnGnome]

Land of the rising sun. Beautiful!!

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[dfw_pilot]

I didn't have any Blu Tack today, so the phone dropped on touchdown. Oops. On the commute home today, I used the iPhone app iMovie and threw this together in a few minutes. It's pretty cool that on a phone, one can edit footage, add fades, text, audio, and more.

[SACole]

I love watching these. I always forget how much turning is involved before landing.




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[dfw_pilot]

It was a clear day flying into the LA Basin. What looks like a bumpy ride is really just aircraft configuration changes (speed brakes and flaps) which change the pitch attitude. In time lapse, those changes make the video bumpy. The last twenty seconds were a challenge with the thermals and wake turbulence from the preceding 787 we were following, but somehow, I managed it.

[dfw_pilot]

This one isn't a time lapse, but a view from inside the cockpit on landing in Anchorage. I'm behind the iPhone and there were three of us aboard because the flight time was 10 hours.

165 knots on approach is 190 mph. It looks like we are floating in, but we are actually zipping along.

[andy10917]

The left seat must have been an Air Force guy. A flare on landing? A Navy guy would be "40, 10, WE HAVE ARRIVED!!".

[dfw_pilot]

The left seat must have been an Air Force guy. A flare on landing? A Navy guy would be "40, 10, WE HAVE ARRIVED!!".

Yes, that seems to be some airline's landing style, for sure. On this day, it was the F/O's landing. At 760,000 lbs on landing, hard landings are a very bad thing.

[Southernguy311]

Thanks for sharing, I enjoy the videos you post

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[dfw_pilot]

Shot, edited, and finalized with an iPhone. I'd love a GoPro, but I think I'll have to wait for Santa to bring one.