"stol" wrote in message
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As we chatted about a few weeks ago, I am about to start my
conditional inspection on the "beast". I think you idea of making a
short but sweet video of what I encountered during my auto engine
conversion is a good thought. I imagine taking an overall shot of the
plane, zoom in on various systems, all the while verbally describing
what I did, what I didn't do, what worked, what didn't work kind of
format. I am open to suggestions on how to put together a tell all
video for other alternative engine junkies.... Fire away .

I think I would go through explaining through, in chronicle order.

Short bit on why you wanted auto power, and how you chose the engine that
you ended up with.
What had to be carefully calculated, to get CG and mounting to work out.
How would someone else go about deciding on the engine, ect. What had to be
changed to get it all to come together. Cowling, mounts, fuel system?
How about the modifications to the engine as compared to stock. Basic
engine statistics, and performance numbers, if you dyno'ed it. Any pitfalls
with those modifications. How do you instrument it.

What was planned for cooling, and did it work as planned? Same thing for
PSRU.
How do you usually run the engine, RPM's and oil and water temps. Cooling
problems are usually top items for new installations; how well does yours
work, and what conditions make it a problem. (long ground runs, high air
temps and climbing out, for example.

Make yourself a script of questions and answers. Keep everything short, but
not too short. Make it interesting. Perhaps you could get someone to
interview you, to keep it interesting. Some (a few) of the items you may
want to cut a short bit of camera work showing how you did something,
cutting into the middle of the interview.

Now dig into the cowling with the camera, and show the rest of the things
that were just discussed. How do you go about the PSRU adjustments, on the
one you chose. Any thing that had to be tweaked during the first 40 hours,
and same for the first year. What has to be messed with, during a normal
year of running it. What do you do for your yearly inspection?

Spend a little time bragging on your installation, but not too much. You
want this to be informational, educational, and captivating. Too much
bragging will make people turn it off, because nobody likes a bragger going
overboard
Give it a whirl. I like the tripod for some of the interview. If you have
a way to edit and cut between camera views and such it would be great, but
if not, just pause, an go on with the next view, but get the camera
stabilized before you turn it on, and as you stop for the next scene, leave
a short (2 or 3 seconds) pause on what you are leaving, to let the viewer's
brain to relax and assimilate the recent info, before the next scene cut
begins.

I would try to get it into 5 minutes, or 6 tops. Too long, and many will
not stick with it.

Good luck. I look forward to seeing the final product!

Of course, if you don't like anything I just wrote, feel free to ignore it!
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Jim in NC