Hey guys it's Noel here, welcome along to Tech Tuesday at inflight Video!
So this week’s video is slightly different to the normal tech Tuesdays I’ve been doing
in the past and that’s because this week I’m talking to you all about a new site
that I have set up for inflight video that I’m really hoping you guys are gonna be
able to get behind to help support inflight video but also to get some fantastic extra
features for you while you enjoy the full flight videos.
so firstly what is the inflight video VIP lounge well let me explain that to you.
The VIP lounge is an area I’ve created on inflightvideo.tv which is essentially a concept
I’ve come up with over the last year or so to give you a more immersive experience
for those of you who’d like this.
For example I’ve been asked about flight maps and airshow maps and I’ve been working
on that to integrate that into this solution.
Also things like flight schedules, people ask what our flight schedules are and how
you can go about tracking them online and all of that is going to be included in the
inflight video VIP lounge.
I’m just going to show you through the website, show you the features I’ve put together,
and hopefully it’s something that will be useful to watch.
So this is the inflight VIP Lounge website and the URL as you can see at the top is members.inflightvideo.tv.
when you log in you are presented with this page here with a few tabs along the top and
most of these are only available to people who have registered.
So if we go to the full flight videos button at the top here you will see a list of all
of my existing full flight videos that I have released all over YouTube and the links down
the right hand side to click watch and sit and watch the videos just takes you to the
YouTube page, this is open to everybody who comes onto this page, this page doesn’t
require a login the other ones do so I’ll talk you through those as well.
The early access button, now this is a feature that I really wanted to bring to people who
are supporting inflight video not only the Patrons that are so awesome and support me
every single month but also people who are doing things that are doing things for inflight
video for example we have some people that create full flight videos for us, we have
partners who provide us with thumbnail images that we use, this is to give something back
to them but also to give something to you guys who would like to support inflight video
a little bit more.
So as part of the package for the inflight video VIP lounge you also get this here which
is early access to all of my upcoming videos and I’m giving you a sneak preview as well
to those guys who have not signed up for this so you’ll see the next few flights we have
coming up, essentially you can click any of these and watch them in full.
I release them on to here as soon as I’ve uploaded them to YouTube when I’ve finished
filming them you may know that when I film a video it doesn’t always go onto YouTube
straight away it takes a few weeks to get it edited, descriptions sorted, tags, translations,
everything else for you, get it all scheduled in that takes a few weeks normally but with
the videos as soon as they are uploaded to YouTube they go straight onto here onto the
early access tab so you can watch them as soon as I film then I’ll give you an idea
of the timescale some of these were filmed just a couple of days ago and I’ve uploaded
them already so if you have access to the VIP lounge you can see all of the early access
videos on here.
The next feature I’m gonna show you I’m really excited about and I hope you guys will
be too.
This is the flight maps tab and this isn’t just the flight maps as you have been seeing
them on the videos that I create I have gone through and for most of my videos for at least
the last couple of years’ worth of my videos I’ve created animated flight maps for them.
I won’t talk to you much but I’ll show you exactly what it is.
So if we go here we’ll find a video for example this is the Flybe Manchester to Aberdeen
flight I released last week.
And if we click on this button here we are taken to this site this is a site called CloudAhoy
who I’ve partnered with and I’m creating some flight maps for you guys on here.
If I click on start debrief right just there, we’ll minimize this, but if I hit the play
button there you can see that we have this, let me mute this, I’ll just mute that so
you can hear me talking.
I’ll turn me off as well.
So we have the full flight here with the flight map and the glass cockpit display here at
the front and you can see here we have the video here on the left hand side that you
can flick through and see all the parts of the video, we also have on the right hand
side a really handy flight map.
This is a real time flight map of the flight that you’re watching.
This particular part of the flight we are over the borders of Scotland here and we’re
at 24,000ft as you can see down here on the right hand side, the speed that we’re going,
the heading we’re following and all sorts of things like this I am really excited about
this and I’ve been working on this for a long time, I’m really pleased to be able
to announce this for you guys.
The glass cockpit display also you can see it shows you what the pilots would be seeing
at that moment in time if it wasn’t quite so cloudy, if we skip ahead a little bit when
we’re overhead the Scottish countryside you can see here the clouds have cleared a
little bit below and we are coming up to this sort of area here near Braemar in eastern
Scotland and at this point we’re descending through 12,000ft as we watch it on the video.
I am really excited about this and it’s something I’ve been quite addicted to watch
my own video which I don’t normally do very often so it’s been great fun to watch them
through this and I really hope you’re going to enjoy this feature as well.
So for every single video going forward now I’m going to be creating this full immersive
flight map experience for you with information about the flight and everything so you can
see all of this in this manner if you want to.
It’s a more immersive experience for you, I know seeing just the video on its own sometimes
can be a little bit tedious with clouds for hours on end and I know that a lot of people
would love to know exactly where they were in the flight as if they are on the flight
themselves and with this functionality I’m really excited that I can actually show this
to you guys now as I’ve been working on it for so long and trying to keep it a secret,
so I really hope you enjoy this.
So let’s close that then so this is the flights that I’ve got this for at the moment
it’s all of my flights going back for the last year or so, I think the first one I did
with this was the American Airlines flights over to the states in 2015, the nice long
8 and a half hour one there on the 777 that’s the first flight I have this set up for and
every single subsequent flight since then.
This is gonna be quite cool I think and I hope you guys appreciate this functionality
as well.
So one thing I will be adding on here as well as we go forward is the ability to get notifications
as and when we depart on a flight we are filming.
At the moment you can see you can track the flight through here, but the plan is to send
out SMS notifications, notifications to your mobile device as and when we start filming
flights so you can go on straight away and track the flight we’re on.
That’s something I’m working on, it’s quite complicated, a lot of technologies there
to get my head around and how we send these push notifications to you, and it’s also
whether or not you guys want the ability to get these notifications I know that it could
be quite frustrating on some of these days we have 3 or 4 flights going out on some days
around the world so it could be a little bit intrusive, I’m trying to work out the best
way I can do that so it doesn’t annoy you guys too much and so that it creates the best
experience for everybody as well
So that’s at the moment all the features we have here for the inflight video VIP lounge
and I’m really excited that I can show this to you now, I’ve been holding it back for
quite a while I’ve been developing the site, so it’s something that I’m really excited
to be able to share with you.
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So how do you get access to this?
As I said before the site is at members.inflightvideo.tv, the URL is in the description below this video
so you can take a look at that.
Our Patreon supporters get this included when they support us on Patreon and that’s just
as a thank you for being such awesome supporters, we really do appreciate you guys for all you
do, all the support, the feedback it is absolutely phenomenal and we really cannot thank you
enough for that.
What I want to do as well is open this to you as well to those who maybe don’t support
me on Patreon.
So at the moment the cost for anybody who is not a Patreon supporter is just 5 dollars
a month and I’m really hoping for that 5 dollars you’re getting a lot of value for
money in terms of the feature you get here compared to YouTube, and just to be clear
again our videos on YouTube are not changing in the slightest, they’re still coming out
every week just as we do already, the aim is just to create that more immersive experience
for those of you that really want it.
You get a 2 day trial I just want to give you guys a bit of a free trial on it when
you sign up so you can have a look and play around, see what you think, the link to that
is just in the description below, members.inflightvideo.tv, and when you get to the page you get two options,
register and login, if you’ve registered already or are a Patreon supporter you have
access just to login, if you would like to register you can just hit that register button
and create an account at inflight video VIP lounge and get access to all of the features
and more.
So one more thing before I go I want to say thank you to all of my amazing supporters
on Patreon you guys are incredible, you support us in the work that we do, with your donations
every month, your feedback that you give to us here at inflight video we cannot thank
you guys enough you are absolutely amazing thank you so much for all of the support you
give us So guys one last thing I just want to say
thank you so much for watching today’s video, really do appreciate it, I hope you find it
useful talking about the inflight video VIP lounge we are introduction now and I hope
you will enjoy the extra features that we have in there and go ahead and give it a go,
see what you think!
If you have any questions of feedback I’d love to hear them, otherwise if you could
click like, share, subscribe and everything else that makes you so awesome I say this
every week I know but I really do appreciate every single one of you and all of your feedback.
Guys, thanks very much and I’ll speak to you next week!