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Steve Zimmermann
Приєднався 7 лис 2006
I'm a lifelong pilot and photographer who loves to fly to interesting places and to capture the beauty and wonder of our planet along the way.
Colorado High Country Air Tour
After an early morning flight from my home airport (KEIK - Erie Municipal) and an al fresco breakfast at the Creekside in Steamboat Springs, we load up the DA62 and take the scenic route home: north over the Mt Zirkel Wilderness, east over North Park to run south along the spine of the Rawah and the Never Summer ranges, then southeast over Rocky Mountain National Park and back to KEIK.
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Lake Michigan Scenic Flight in the Diamond DA62
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We loaded up the DA62 with four adults and baggage, and our yellow Lab, Luna. After a fuel stop in Merrill, Wisconsin, we flew over Lake Michigan, the Straits of Mackinac and Mackinac Island en route to spending a few days with a friend at his island camp on Lake Huron. It was a beautiful day for flying. #slowvideo
Dawn Flight: Air-to-Air #slowvideo
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We fly a photo mission in my Diamond DA62, with a pair of Extra aerobatic aircraft as subjects. Still Photographer: Julia Apfelbaum, Distant Thunder Aviation, www.distantthunderaviation.com/ Extra Pilots: Bob Freeman, lead. Free Man Airshows, freemanairshows.com/ Nick Slabakov, wing Safety Pilot: Mike Lepper
Air-to-Air in the Diamond DA62
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On our way to Kerrville, Texas to view the eclipse, we stopped in Georgetown (KGTU) to fly an air-to-air photo mission with the Diamond DA62 as subject. Master aviation photographer, Glenn Watson had invited us to join him for the shoot. Before taking off, we held a safety briefing in the FBO’s conference room, and spent a few minutes catching up; I hadn’t seen Glenn or Kirk in years. After sho...
Solar Eclipse From The Air
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We fly the Diamond DA62 along the path of totality east of Dallas.
NewSnowAndCloudsOnTheDivide
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A beautiful mountain flight over the Continental Divide, made even more spectacular by the new snow from our Christmas storm and a scattered cloud layer that enhanced the play of light on the high ridges. High Country snow and clouds starts at 8:11.
Ice OnThe Divide
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UHD 4K video. A fabulous winter scene unfolds as we run along the Continental Divide west of Boulder, Colorado. In 48 years of flying small planes in the Colorado Rockies, I've never seen the ridges coated with ice like this. My first outing with the new GoPro Hero 12 Black; battery life is much improved and the video it shoots looks great.
To Denali, VFR On Top
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Presented in 4K UHD. After several days cooling our heels in Palmer, my wife and I tired of waiting for the weather to improve so we launched in the DA62 on cloudy morning, to see if we could get on top of the persistent overcast and make an aerial circumnavigation of Denali. We found a hole (in the wrong direction!) over the Chugach National Forest near Harvard Glacier and picked up an IFR cle...
Air-to-Air: we're the subject, this time.
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For once, I'm the guy getting his picture taken instead of the guy behind the camera. This is a raw clip from GoPro MAX 360 footage of the formation join and the first few minutes of the shoot. The location is Palmer, Alaska, and the goal was to get shots of my Diamond DA62 over the Knik Glacier. Dietmar Schreiber, one of the photographers in the C206, has published a gallery from the shoot. Se...
Leaving Sky Harbor
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A short video of our departure from Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport in the Diamond DA62. Watch for a yellow Spirit Airlines 737 cleared onto runway 07L as we depart on 07R. A good view of the 161st Air Refueling Wing's ramp; and the Spirit jet catches up and passes us as we turn south. #theaerialperspective #slowvideo
Colorado Winter Wonderland (aerial) #slowvideo
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After dropping my @AngelFlightWest1 passengers in Durango, I headed home to Erie, Colorado. This video combines time lapse, video, and stills to showcase a beautiful winter day in the high country of Colorado. *No audio*
Winter Familiarization Flight (2) #slowvideo
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Time lapse (no audio) of a flight over the snowy Colorado high country. I picked up my friend Doedo at Longmont's KLMO for his first flight in the DA62. We made our way over the Continental Divide westbound at 14,500' and re-crossed the Divide heading into North Park over the Park Range. After climbing to 15,500' eastbound we headed out over the Never Summer Range and Poudre Canyon to reach the...
Snowy Range Flypast
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Wyoming's Snowy Range mountains are composed entirely of brilliant white quartzite, so that even when there's no snow (as in this video) they appear from any distance to be snow-capped peaks. It's only when you're up close like this that their true nature becomes apparent.
Formation Flight In the High Country #slowvideo
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After attending the annual EAA fly-in and pancake breakfast at Colorado's Granby Airport, we arranged a formation flight with a friend's C182 on the way back home over the Continental Divide. Takeoff from 8200' MSL, ridge crossing at 12,500' MSL.
Alaska Photoshoot: De Havilland Beaver on Floats #slowvideo
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Air-to-air from a Beaver, of a Beaver. Departed Anchorage's Lake Hood Seaplane Base and flew out to a remote Barbara Lake on the Kenai Peninsula.
Bonanza/DA62 Dissimilar Formation Flight #SlowVideo
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Bonanza/DA62 Dissimilar Formation Flight #SlowVideo
Red Rock Country: Blanding to Page #SlowVideo
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Red Rock Country: Blanding to Page #SlowVideo
Aerial Tour of the Flat Tops Wilderness #SlowVideo
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Aerial Tour of the Flat Tops Wilderness #SlowVideo
First Ride In a Small Plane #SlowVideo
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First Ride In a Small Plane #SlowVideo
Fall Foliage Flight: Aspens In Full Autumn Glory #SlowVideo
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Fall Foliage Flight: Aspens In Full Autumn Glory #SlowVideo
That was absolutely exhilarating
Jan, it was even better in person! 🤗
That is a bigass lake
i didnt realize how big Lake Michigan was! holy cow! after going to AMT school and getting my A&P its funny how i just name the different parts of the airplane now lol
It’s really big. This was just the upper edge of it, too.
awesome video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video!
Wonderful tutorial on how you guys actually do this.
Yeah, there are a lot of moving parts to a successful air-to-air mission.
I love this!
That was a cool video Steve. Thanks for sharing.. Greetings Jan-Arie
Glad you enjoyed it, J-A! Are you coming to this side of the pond any time soon?
@@SteveZimmermannAtHome send you a message via messenger.
Wow!!!
Pretty cool. The way that wing warped and gave you a 360 degree horizon was wild. Thx for sharing.
Awesome job! What was the wing tip camera rig?
I had a GoPro MAX 360 on the left wingtip, a GoPro Hero 12 Black on the right wingtip, and a GoPro Hero 10 Black in the cockpit for cockpit and ATC audio. I screwed up with the 12 by using the Linear lens setting, which in practice meant that it didn’t capture either the horizon or the eclipsed sun in level flight, and barely got both in frame when the plane was banked steeply. My bad…
@@SteveZimmermannAtHome Still way cool. I've spent some time in DA40s and DA42s, but that DA62 looks like a sweet ride. Thanks!
Still think experience on the ground was heck of a lot better.
Now that I’ve witnessed a total eclipse from both vantage points, I’d argue that one isn’t ‘better’ than the other, but just ‘different’. Both are spectacular.
14:49 was a sweet shot.
Awesome!!
Thanks!
Thanks so much!!! It was amazing, to be sure! You had quite the challenge with that lens of yours, and were lucky to get the amazing camera shot you blended in. At what point did you figure out it was the Red Bull team?
It wasn’t until a friend sent me the link to the Red Bull posting/photo that we figured it out.
Amazing footage, thank you for sharing!
My pleasure. Thanks for watching!
Great video, Steve! I visited what was then called Mt. McKinley National Park in 1975 when my Dad was working on the pipeline project. I just discovered UA-cam's zoom feature on my phone and enjoyed zooming in on various scenes in your video!
Very cool! And thanks…
Very beautiful and relaxing video, Steve! Will the 62 hold altitude on one engine at 14,000 feet? I'm working on my MEL in a DA42 out of KBFI. Would be nice to rent a 62 one day. However, I think they are still too new and rare to be offered as rentals. But maybe soon. Best wishes for the new year!
Thanks! The DA62’s single engine service ceiling is 13,000’. Even here in Colorado, that’s above 99% of the terrain.
Thanks for the video steve, Happy new years
I’m pleased you like it, thanks. Happy New Year!
Beautiful. Is there more video? The video stops around 41 minutes but continues to 1 hour 29 minutes
No, Tom: the blank 40 minutes was an export error from Premiere Pro.
Ho hum 😕
Absolutely gorgeous, like all beavers
Thank you! 😊
Dietmar Schreiber, one of the photographers, has published a gallery from this shoot. See it at: www.airtoair.at/Airtoairga.../2023/2023-06-10-N62DZ/
Gorgeous scenery Steve, any chance will be able to see some of the shots of your bird when they're done and if so where? Thanks and grateful for another video, blue skies my friend.
I've already gotten a handful of still images from a couple of the photographers. Since I don't own the copyright to those images, you'll just have to find them elsewhere, I'm afraid. Check my FB feed for some shares: /photoSteveZ
@zore1998 : Dietmar Schreiber, one of the photographers, has published a gallery from this shoot. See it at: www.airtoair.at/Airtoairga.../2023/2023-06-10-N62DZ/
I noticed you go flaps up gear up at the same time. How do you think about what altitude to raise your flaps?
Rotate 78 knots; positive rate, gear up; pitch for 90 knots; flaps up. Happens fast in this instance, at 1000’ MSL with a 20 knot headwind.
The two actions are triggered by separate events: positive rate/gear up; accelerate to 90 KIAS/flaps up. In this case the two events followed one other very quickly, and the gear cycle takes longer than raising the flaps.
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Gorgeous bird you have there, i'm based out of KEIK, thought I might have seen this bird before.
Nais
Is there anything to do in Leadville?
Nice vid
I just need one answer, how do you afford this plane?
Well, the variable costs are certainly more affordable than most....
Great video of a great scenery -- from a great aircraft! Awesome!
What kind of outside camera do you have?
Nice Video Steve, great images. What camera are you using ? Fly safe.
Thanks. This was shot with a single, fixed GoPro Max 360. All ‘panning and zooming’ is done in post-processing.
2 mile taxiway
Do you have many problems with getting the ECU fail light and subsequent product support in your DA62?
What camera and mount are you using
NFlightCam ball mount and GoPro MAX
@@SteveZimmermannAtHome and where did you mount the GoPro?
Absolutely stunning scenes of the aspen meadows, reminds me of my college days in the Fall when I'd escape to the mountains after a long day in classrooms. Not exactly sanguine with flying directly into rising terrain, even in my turbo Mooney, though your DA-42 probably handles it fine. I'm just a nervous old CFI, I guess.
It may not be apparent, but I always had a downhill way out. Some days the weather is benign over the high ridges, and this was one of them.
I prefer to see the instrument panel ....instead of 10 minutes of your front landing gear. If it lasts 15 minutes, I am out of here.
Sure, I get where you’re coming from. But I’m making #SlowVideo here of an entire flight, featuring landscapes and aircraft exteriors, not ATC cockpit recordings. Feel free to scrub past the ‘boring’ bits. Different strokes…
Well who is faster?
The turbocharged V35 is smaller and lighter, and for a given fuel burn is faster…but the Diamond carries more people and stuff, is more comfortable, and has air con, onboard weather radar, and icing protection. All design is an exercise in balancing tradeoffs…
Awesome aircraft ❤️✈️ both of them ,
Diamond planes are so good
I love these videos. Great camera work...
Please continue making these beautiful videos. I could watch them all day.
Thanks, Dave! As it happens, there’s a new video coming out in the morning. 😀👍🏻
"Bank angle." "Terrain" "Bank angle AND terrain!" Wow, that is a whole nother level of density altitude performance. Beautiful flight, but I am feeling a little queezy. Can we go back now? :)
That rear camera view is epic. Love the vids. Congrats on the DA62, love that plane.
Thanks, Will. It’s a magic carpet, for sure.
FAKE- All done by computer - FAKE
Why do you say fake?? Please explain your reasoning. (By the way, it was in fact, a real flight).
Definitely not faked in any way.
Espetacular!👏
Thanks, Wagner. I never tire of the views in this part of the world.
Tiene radar climatico, y anti-ice
That’s beautiful, Steve. I love Colorado.