Hopefully the price goes down

Okay, I'll bite. Didn't click the link.. but..

What would somebody need a FLIR camera for in a personal aircraft?
 
firebird2xc said:
What would somebody need a FLIR camera for in a personal aircraft?
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Experiemental pack of gum with wings = jet fighter. These guys may be doing bombing runs someday Charlie, you know when the aliens come down and blow up Norad.

If you guys run outa room installing that stuff, throw that fuel selector behind your seat just outa reach :).
 
jynxyjoe said:
Experiemental pack of gum with wings = jet fighter. These guys may be doing bombing runs someday Charlie, you know when the aliens come down and blow up Norad.

If you guys run outa room installing that stuff, throw that fuel selector behind your seat just outa reach :).
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You know, in the original version of the movie Independence Day, Randy Quaid's character was supposed to get left out of the F-18 assault on the alien mothership. He then shows up on his own in his rickety biplane.

The filmmakers decided that was as dumb as it sounds. :cool:

I can think of a few practical uses for FLIR.. but none of them involve average, everyday civilian uses.

More gadgets for people who think CAP is on par with Navy fighter jocks. :laff:
 
jynxyjoe said:
Apparently you haven't seen the CAP flight suits.:sarcasm:
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Wore one, once, actually. I did three years as a CAP cadet in high school.

Worked the SAR ground team, all that crap. Learned a good bit. Learned that some of the senior members are every bit as bad as people make them out to be.
 
Firebird2XC said:
Wore one, once, actually. I did three years as a CAP cadet in high school.

Worked the SAR ground team, all that crap. Learned a good bit. Learned that some of the senior members are every bit as bad as people make them out to be.
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Yeah. I wasn't exactly cut out for CAP.
 
I believe the idea is to use the FLIR to see obstructions or animals on a runway at night that you would otherwise not see until it's too late.
 
jtrain609 said:
I believe the idea is to use the FLIR to see obstructions or animals on a runway at night that you would otherwise not see until it's too late.
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Probably beats the approach I used for years (darwin out dumber animals that won't move, luckily the coyotes at my home field were fairly bright).
 
jynxyjoe said:
Yeah. I wasn't exactly cut out for CAP.
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WERD! Me either. Doing that crap to fly a 172 isn't for me.

Funniest thing I have ever(in regard to CAP) seen was at EAA about 10 years ago. One of the CAP guys starts yelling(I mean screaming!) at an active duty Military guy demanding respect(obviously he didn't realize he wasn't CAP). The Military guy grabbed him by the ear twisted and started screaming at him like Drill Sgt Hartman from Full metal Jacket. That was priceless.
 
WalterSobchak said:
WERD! Me either. Doing that crap to fly a 172 isn't for me.

Funniest thing I have ever(in regard to CAP) seen was at EAA about 10 years ago. One of the CAP guys starts yelling(I mean screaming!) at an active duty Military guy demanding respect(obviously he didn't realize he wasn't CAP). The Military guy grabbed him by the ear twisted and started screaming at him like Drill Sgt Hartman from Full metal Jacket. That was priceless.
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Yeah.. the salute nazis are always fun to watch.
 
I am unfamiliar with the technology, but read some years ago that a sudden bright light would render the tool useless (I think it was a Clancy novel where I read it)

Would the strobes on top of school buses mess with it? etc?



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beasly said:
I am unfamiliar with the technology, but read some years ago that a sudden bright light would render the tool useless (I think it was a Clancy novel where I read it)

Would the strobes on top of school buses mess with it? etc?



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That was most likely a light sensitive camera. To my understanding these use thermal imaging so a bright light wouldn't render it useless, unless that light heated everything around it to the same temperature.
 
Firebird2XC said:
More gadgets for people who think CAP is on par with Navy fighter jocks. :laff:
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jynxyjoe said:
Apparently you haven't seen the CAP flight suits.:sarcasm:
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Firebird2XC said:
some of the senior members are every bit as bad as people make them out to be.
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jynxyjoe said:
Yeah. I wasn't exactly cut out for CAP.
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WalterSobchak said:
WERD! Me either. Doing that crap to fly a 172 isn't for me.

Funniest thing I have ever(in regard to CAP) seen was at EAA about 10 years ago. One of the CAP guys starts yelling(I mean screaming!) at an active duty Military guy demanding respect(obviously he didn't realize he wasn't CAP). The Military guy grabbed him by the ear twisted and started screaming at him like Drill Sgt Hartman from Full metal Jacket. That was priceless.
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Firebird2XC said:
Yeah.. the salute nazis are always fun to watch.
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:deadhorse: Haven't we got tired of this yet. Do we really want to start another CAP BAD/CAP GOOD war
 
Like jtrain said the whole point of FLIR on GA aircraft is to see objects on a runway you wouldn't normally see. FLIR is pretty good at that.

Don't think I could justify buying one, but I can think of a few times it would have been nice to have
 
beasly said:
read some years ago that a sudden bright light would render the tool useless
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Older light enhancing technology ie: NODs, Old military night vision goggles, starlite scopes and such, can be flashed and will be disabled for a bit but not FLIR.

Simply put, FLIR detects varying degrees of heat and puts in on a screen so you can see it. An Infrared light of some sort can be very brite to a FLIR system but not much else.
 
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