On Jan 28, 12:13*pm, John Smith wrote:
wrote:
The esteemed John Cochrane BB is right on. Adding camera duties on top
of your flying duties at your first contest invites equipment
overload. Two or three contests down the road you can consider the

Do some of you you even read a question before answering to it? Noel
explicitely asked for something he "can simply turn on at the beginning
of each flight and let it capture a couple of hours of video".

Both of the folks who replied clearly read the post and clearly
anticipated the problems that a newbie wouldn't. Imagine the
scenario... Sitting on the grid 10 minutes before launch. Time to
turn on the camera. Let's see if the little green light comes on.
Hmmm... no little green light. I wonder why that is? Let's check
the connections to the battery. Damn... I wonder if I forgot to
recharge. I'll just stroll back to the trailer to get the backup.
Hmm... I know it's here somewhere. Hey, why are all those guys down
on the line jumping up and down?

I'm sure Noel is smarter than that. Unfortunately, that's "resting
IQ." Contests seem to make us all dumber by 25%, and suddenly we're
not nearly as smart as we thought we were.

There are so many things that can and will go wrong at the first
contest. Do you really think that playing Warren Miller of the Sky
is a smart use of what little brain capacity may be left?

Sometimes the pundits really do know what they're talking about.

Respectfully submitted,
P3