New Zealand soaring movie

One of the things we discovered during the filming of "Cloudstreet" is that continuity between scenes is difficult to manage. In one of the takeoff scenes, I climb into the cockpit wearing a dark blue shirt and somehow change into a white T-shirt for the launch. Embarrassing to professional filmmakers, but we just had to go with it due to the limited production budget (which was still astronomical to us).

And yes, shooting many flights and cutting together various scenes so that it appears to be one flight is a necessary tool. It can't be helped, especially with limited cameras and time aloft.

But that made it more fun.

At 03:34 04 September 2016, wrote:
One of the things we discovered during the filming of "Cloudstreet" is
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continuity between scenes is difficult to manage. In one of the takeoff
sc=
enes, I climb into the cockpit wearing a dark blue shirt and somehow
change=
into a white T-shirt for the launch. Embarrassing to professional
filmmake=
rs, but we just had to go with it due to the limited production budget
(whi=
ch was still astronomical to us).

And yes, shooting many flights and cutting together various scenes so
that
=
it appears to be one flight is a necessary tool. It can't be helped,
especi=
ally with limited cameras and time aloft.

But that made it more fun.

Talking of films, I've never seen an explanation of why the Duo canopy
opened the wrong way after the flight in "The Thomas Crown Affair".
Dave

On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 8:30:05 PM UTC+12, David Salmon wrote:
At 03:34 04 September 2016, wrote:
One of the things we discovered during the filming of "Cloudstreet" is
that=
continuity between scenes is difficult to manage. In one of the takeoff
sc=
enes, I climb into the cockpit wearing a dark blue shirt and somehow
change=
into a white T-shirt for the launch. Embarrassing to professional
filmmake=
rs, but we just had to go with it due to the limited production budget
(whi=
ch was still astronomical to us).

And yes, shooting many flights and cutting together various scenes so
that
=
it appears to be one flight is a necessary tool. It can't be helped,
especi=
ally with limited cameras and time aloft.

But that made it more fun.

Talking of films, I've never seen an explanation of why the Duo canopy
opened the wrong way after the flight in "The Thomas Crown Affair".
Dave

They modified the canopy opening side for continuity after the glider was seen flying left to right in virtually every shot (except where a chase plane crossed from one side to the other). You don't want the actors hidden by the opening canopy, and you absolutely don't want the glider suddenly and jarringly facing the opposite direction.

On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 11:57:59 AM UTC-5, wrote:
Long time ago I saw a neat movie about a father and daughter(?) learning to soar in New Zealand. Great scenery. Remind me the name of the movie?

Also, if my 14 YO son gets instruction and solos in New Zealand does the flight time and solo endorsement from a Kiwi certified flight instructor count directly towards a US Private Pilot-Glider certificate when he turns 16?

Mr. Harris,
I am not an authority on this by any means, but a review of the US FAR's (which are available online) would suggest the answer to your question is "Yes". Below are links that may assist in how this is done, but I suggest either waiting for an expert to reply on this matter or just contact an FAA examiner. The last link defines how and what flying experience is documented in FAA terms; helpful when you go over the logbook with the instructor/examiner. Who knows but it may be simpler than you think.

Michael

https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certifi..._verification/

https://www.aopa.org/training-and-sa...-certification

http://www.flightsimaviation.com/dat...art_61-75.html

http://www.risingup.com/fars/info/part61-51-FAR.shtml

Hi,

I love that film. I sell it in the USA he
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/video...born-Champions

Best Regards,

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.

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Long time ago I saw a neat movie about a father and daughter(?) learning to
soar in New Zealand. Great scenery. Remind me the name of the movie?

Also, if my 14 YO son gets instruction and solos in New Zealand does the
flight time and solo endorsement from a Kiwi certified flight instructor
count directly towards a US Private Pilot-Glider certificate when he turns
16?

I gave that movie to my Mom as a gift and from that point on flying with that "good looking man in New Zealand" was on here bucket list. She passed away before she could do it but I told Gavin the story when I flew in Omarama last year.

After the initial success of the film, we adapted it as a promotion for gliding. We edited it down to 15 minutes and made it available to national gliding organisations to put their own commentary (own language) and it was produced in German, French, Italian and several other languages. They idea was to make it a giveaway promotion and the idea was to keep the price below $4. The idea worked and we produced over 60,000 copies. JOHN ROAKE