As many of you know, I live in England where we drive on the left. With the power of the Vette, overtaking is not a problem but checking if the road is clear can be interesting. You have to ease out to get a clear view of the road before overtaking and sometimes, with me on the left, by the time I've eased out enough to see, its possible to frighten the odd unwary driver coming the other way I've had the odd fist waved at a non existent driver in the passenger seat

This video will give you some idea of the problem. Imagine sitting behind a car and needing to see if the road is safe to overtake.


I've planned to fit an overtaking camera to the passenger side for some time just to give me that first look at traffic. Where its mounted would depend on the size of the lens and there are a few options. The camera feeds onto my AVIC flip out screen for viewing.

My son tried a fit yesterday on his Camaro using a reversing camera. It went OK and he tucked it into the headliner temporarily. The trouble is that its a reverse image which is confusing and the camera is a short range focus and wide ange for reversing. The definition at longer range is just not there. We need a camera optimised for "action" shots focussed at infinity.

I know some of you have mounted cameras for the track. Does anyone have any experience with the different types of camera, preferably the small pinhole type? Any suggestions would be great.

I like to set a challenge

 

Are you listening to Kenny G?

 

Quit driving on the wrong side of the road.

Problem solved.

Seems like the reversing camera with the small lens setup would be ideal it you can solve the focal point issue.

I've never seen one in action so never knew about the image being reversed though.

Mounting it in the shell of the passenger side outside mirror would be ideal but might be more modification that you want to do.

 

I think I would have a tough time driving on the left side of the road - did it a few times when I was stationed in the Bahamas, but it was definitely a challenge.

 

The few times I've been in the Bahamas it seemed they drove on whatever side of the road was unoccupied at the moment.

 

I even went to a concert in Vegas

Now if I drive on the wrong side of the road I may hit some serious problems

Any suggestions on types of cameras

 

I got to experience driving on the "correct" side of the road the past two weeks. Watch out for the silver Vauxhall sedan on the road between Lincoln and Waddington.

I will PM you a list of cameras that I have used in flight simulators.

 

We need to get together for that beer Dave

Your Company works you way too hard

Thanks for the info

 

Dave, your video reminds me of the old days when I was over there with my Scirocco and all those hedge rows that you can't see over! 60mph on the small roads too. What I don't remember was nice and clear day! Well, maybe a whole 3 weeks of days like that about this time of the year but that was about it. Still a beautiful country though

DBS99MagRedCoupe: Camera's in flight simulators???? I worked directly in flight simulation and don't remember any camera's on the simulators themselves. Maybe the source of the newer simulator video? I work in space simulation now and can only dream and wish I could get a ride in the shuttle with a camera.

 

Glad it brought back some memories Dave. I drove a Scirocco myself in the 80s. We've had the odd nice day here this year but your recollection is spot on. The weather is terrible

We used to have a camera system on the old F4 simulator. It ran over a model that represented the countryside around the base. I think we can safely say simulations come on a long way

 

By using a camera the instructor can monitor what the student is doing from the operators console.

 

That would be a little weird and definitley take some time getting use to...

 

I feel like I'm at the dentist when I hear the Master Kenny G

 

Cool idea. Back in the day, we didn't have those on either the C-5, C-141 or A-10 simulators. I was in the F4G simulator once, but was too dazzled by all that I saw as it was new too me at the time. That was right before I cross-trained into Flight Simulation. I did the C-5 and C-141 sims at Altus and the A-10 at Raf Bentwaters.