HazAtt #5: Resignation
Well done, helmy, I think I've definitely now confirmed the presence of resignation. Will my heirs understand it all when they find my shriveled body wrapped in duct tape, the soul having departed as a result of suffocation while testing said tape for its aerodynamic effects when inhaled?
As for my having modified the aircraft: true, I suggested the duct tape in the initial post--it was supposed to help make it a simple search for the viewfinder issue--but then in second post ("curiouser and curiouser") I saw the error of my ways and eliminated duct tape in favor of a non-modification consisting of a shoulder mount for the camera, leaving the airframe untainted. Had you read that second post? Granted, either way your duct tape exposition is a masterpiece of representative governmental mouse-into-elephant transmogrification!
For the record, you speak out of turn when suggesting I am "one who is trying to fly AND film and has not been professionally trained to do it." In point of fact, I AM professionally trained to do it, drawings and diagrams and lesson plans and dual flight instruction, the works, as a heli pilot for a leading aerial photo concern. I'm just researching ways to improve the service/product!
Sensitivities? Hmm, if Crab trashes my safety expertise, and I then magnify and improve on his trashing by way of illustrating the ADM issues involved, admit my evil ways, and have a devilish good time turning the other cheek, while improving the dissemination of safety principles, don't I get even a small pat on the back? I thought the whole thing was done in excellent humor. Help me out, here: what kind of sack cloth and ashes would you consider appropriate atonement for the terrorist attack on public morality represented by asking about remote viewfinders?
By the by, vis-a-vis flight instruction: true, two pilots, both concentrating on flying the aircraft. One trying for right pedal aft cyclic, the other trying for left pedal forward cyclic? Hmmm, daunting prospect. The salvage yards are full of spare helicopter parts from flight training crashes; I have yet to find any wrecks with telltale scraps of illegal duct tape from camera incidents . . . And so I still feel safer with the camera, I doubt it will fight me for control of the aircraft at critical moments. And it doesn't weigh 240#, nor does it have halitosis.
helicurmudgeon