Hand-mounted Video on Tandem Student

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Want to film tandems? A tandem rating is a good measure. AFF same thing.

Hahaha, This is really off the mark. Sounds good, maybe, in the world of Internet skydiving instruction. But in real life skydiving tandem masters are most often the least skilled fliers on the DZ. 8 out of 10 couldn't film a tandem or even give a coach jump. Tandem masters filming skydiver would be a disaster. Some are current and talented in other disciplines but the majority are rote drogue chuckers who couldnt turn 2 points in a four way.

Not at the two DZ's I jump at, but you may have a point if your made up statistic was more like 50%.

Billvon has a good point, but I think being proficient may be a minor point to "Knowledge through experience" of what is happening in the subject one is filming. It would be good for a Camera Flier to know the little things that can be presented to them when and AFF goes bad out the door, or a tandem's trap door, side spin etc. Same foe RW/VRW filming.

Matt

good old talking via an exact briefing and maybe an eval-jump should be enough to work the trick IMO. holding a TI-rating to be alowed to film tandem is, as another poster already stated - bollocks

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[mike524 0]

Hi,
I just saw your post. In France there are some guys down near Lyon who hook up there tandem passenger with a helmet and a Gopro fixed on it filming them. It gives some nice images that are real stable as the passenger doesn't move (the camera move with the passengers head)

I'm not sure about the legal side of it though and also the case where the passenger gets hurt...

Mike

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[jumpwally 0]

I aqree,,,the potential safety risk is not worth it in my book,,plus handcam video looks lame,,,its like you are missing something,,,,pay for the pro in front of you,,,

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