More Avid Catalina Water Ops
Here is a video Rob just sent to me. They had the video camera out for another fun day of flying his Catalina. If you like Seaplane Ops, this is a good one to watch.
Now You Can Rent Good Aviation Training Videos
If you are like me, I have the series of books from Tony Bingelis that cover the basics of Sportplane building along with a dozen or more other books on flight instruction. When I started working on getting my Private Pilot Certificate, the Gleim publications were a huge help. Books and other forms of literature in print have a place and a purpose. Video based information has an optimal purpose and a place too. I have found in my years of training people in the workplace that a good training video helps people to absorb and comprehend a lot of information at one time. The Sporty’s Pilot Shop and King Aviation Videos were expensive for my budget, but they were needed and watched many times. The question came to mind if there were a way a people could simply rent aviation related training videos to save dollars. Smartflix has a variety of aviation videos for those who are building and those who just want to learn more about flying. SmartFlix is a service that rents video DVDs - just like your corner video store… but they specialize in the kind of videos that you can’t find on every street corner. They have videos on running lathes, welding techniques, and even building airplanes……. many cool videos that you have looked at only to think it will take time to save that kind of money up! Rent online and get the videos shipped straight to you (with return postage included free!).
Here’s how it works:
1. Select which videos you want to rent from the web page and then click “secure checkout”. (Most videos are $10 per week and all of the multi-dvd sets are discounted.)
2. The video gets mailed to you with no shipping charge.
3. You get to watch the video for one week, then you put the video back in the cardboard mailer, stick a pre-printed return-address and return-postage label on the mailer, and drop it in the mail. No stamps are needed! (Example of one week rental is “If the video arrives at your address on a Wednesday, you must put it in the mail on or before the following Wednesday”).
NOTE: Many of the DVDs are DVD+R or DVD-R format. Almost all modern DVD players can play these, but you should verify that your DVD player can play the discs before renting.