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by helsinkiandrew 1382 days ago
There's some scary videos from the cockpit in an A300 and (I think an) A310 doing parabolas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty5B-7CinB8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-pMLZP6HL8

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Wow that last one was pretty crazy to see. I guess they had some camera rig that would keep the camera level with the horizon.
Amazing video.

I’d guess not mechanical? Look at the dashboard top, lower left over the first minute or so: There’s a screw head that keeps popping in and out of existence which suggests some kind of heavy software correction to me.

Yeah that looks like the kind of artifacting you might get from a 360° camera that's trying to hide itself from the footage.
> Both shots are from the GoPro Fusion camera.

> The cockpit footage is stabilised in post using Adobe After Effects and the telemetry from the plane's sensors.

Maybe the pilots should wear helmets.