flyfree2day

I had two cutaways with the glove on. Had no problem. Over a thousand jumps with the hand cam and never had an issue where I had get rid of the glove. Spent two years with a handy cam DZ and out of the couple thousand jumps that all of the instructors did, know one had an problems where they had to get rid of the glove. Just to let ya know

nicely said

I think your to cool for this topic..

Did I say that we had bad camera flyers?

ok, not way more. It's not as dangerous as some people are making it out to be.

yeah, 100% of the people that have done a second jump with us that had camera guys before loved the handycam. I don't know how many people just about 10 out of around 800 or so. I so think that having a good or even decent camera guy is a better video. I've done tandem videos, love and miss doing them. But handycams are a great way to keep everyone happy at a small dz with one 206. The price yeah, I don't know. prob. not worth it. but keeps me working, jumping, the bills payed my boss happy. So I'm all about it, but I see your point.

Have you used the handycam on a tandem jump? out of about 8 or 9 hundred handycam jumps, there were a handful of people that jumped before and got video with a camera guy. 100% so far prefered the handycam. But most of them do ask about stills. All of our customers rave about the video. You are getting rid of the risk of a camera man running into you or sliding over you in freefall. I think it's way more dangerous to have a camera guy. But it's what your comfortable with and what your use to doing. saftey of the passenger def. comes first.

You must go thru alot of tapes? If you tape the hole canopy ride

what camera do you plan on using?

We just put the cam-Eye on our gloves. They work great and makes the job alot easier. We just have the waycool gloves and they will put the cam-eyes in for you. make sure you get the right size for you.

When I had to cutaway with the hc.. I pulled the reserve and still had pretty cool footage. I think the passenger would rather have us do our job, and put their saftey first.

How much do they charge for a tandem?

I don't know if you know Ed. But he's starting a small 182 tandem op. in Plainwell. If your still in Michigan? I don't think he's going to be using skyride. He's a fair guy, so he would be good to work for. If you want to contact him let me know.

I was using my own camera. I agree that 10 dollars is not enough, But i liked the owner and the people I was working with. It was a new DZ, just getting started.

Hey, I've got about five or eight hundred jumps with the hand cam. The dropzone I worked at only does the hand cam. I made about ten dollars extra for doing the video, and five for the editing. It worked good. I had two mals. with it on, and it didn't get in the way at all. I thought it made tandems fun again, more work but fun. Jim