I am always on the lookout of ways of putting more of our research material back into the public domain – but I’m not sure of the interest – hence this thread!
Back in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s I was lucky enough to be able to do a series of airliner flight deck trips in conjunction with a series of articles ‘wot I rote’. Instead of using a notebook, I made use of a Hi-8 camcorder so I have a number of reasonable quality tapes. These included a Gatwick-Corfu return on an Air 2000 757, a Manchester-Crete on an Caledonian Airways A320 and a whole bunch of Dan-Air stuff.
If I was to transfer these to DVD – each of an hour or so length, but a commentary on them and make them available at a reasonable price that reflects the not-broadcast quality, is there a market out there?
By: WJ244 - 31st March 2025 at 14:34
Must admit it is not in my major realm of interest but I am sure there are people out there who would be interested.
It may even interest some of those who go for airliner flight sims to give them an idea of the procedures were adopted by each operator.
The cheapest marketing option would be to list them on the dreaded Ebay and record each disc from the master copy on your computer as and when you sell one. With printable DVD’s and an appropriate printer you can make them look quite professional. I think you can even add short videos to Ebay listings now so you could always have a preview to help sell the DVD.
Maybe a posting on the commercial aviation and flight sim forums might give you a better response and a better idea of the likely demand.
If you really don’t want to do the selling yourself then by all means PM me and maybe we can work out something assuming that there are no copyright issues with the recordings.
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January 14, 2010 at 1:50 pm