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Old 25th March 2001 | 13:34
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Have to agree that the ITVV vids are good. I've got the KLM Fokker 100 and Virgin 744 vids and they're both excellent. My only gripe is that the KLM Captain isn't miked up properly for take-off or landing and it's a bit of a strain to hear what's going on over the engine whine.

By comparison, the Justplanes vids look good on the website but in reality are laughably poor.

I got the Namibia 747SP vid, which is just some bloke sitting on the j/s, waving around a camcorder. There's no commentary, most of it is out of focus, you can't hear the crew exchanges, the night portions of the flight are just blurry instruments, and all you can hear is engine whine. Not a particularly captivating way to spend a couple of hours.

The other one I have is the Gabon Express vid, which is a little more interesting because they still use the Caravelle for pax use, which has a certain anorak fascination factor.

But again the dreadful technical quality and lack of narration makes me wonder
why I don't just release on vid my attempt to land in a 737 sim with one engine out, in a 35kt x-wind, and an incapacitated P1. That was more exciting....