Flight simulator Operator for Mentour Pilot YouTube Channel, UK
Electrify Video Partners
London, UK
Published today
Part time
Are you passionate about aviation? Do you have experience using Microsoft Flight Simulator or X-plane? Then we are looking for you!
Mentour Pilot is a top YouTube channel dedicated to sharing aviation stories, with a focus on incidents and crashes. Offering a unique and detailed pilot's perspective, the channel ensures accuracy and a deeper understanding of these events. By explaining the safety measures, regulations, and standard procedures behind such situations, we aim to ease viewers' fears about flying. A better grasp of these intricacies can help alleviate concerns and build confidence in air travel.
Tasks
Mentour Pilot is a top YouTube channel dedicated to sharing aviation stories, with a focus on incidents and crashes. Offering a unique and detailed pilot's perspective, the channel ensures accuracy and a deeper understanding of these events. By explaining the safety measures, regulations, and standard procedures behind such situations, we aim to ease viewers' fears about flying. A better grasp of these intricacies can help alleviate concerns and build confidence in air travel.
Tasks
- Customise and optimise environments by adjusting weather conditions, time of day, and terrain to accurately recreate the desired atmosphere for each scene.
- Use in-game camera tools to capture dynamic angles, fly-bys, cockpit views, and wide shots to enhance the cinematic quality.
- Re-enact specific flight scenarios in line with real-world physics and aviation protocols to ensure realism in the shots.
- Collaborate closely with directors, storyboard artists, and editors to ensure shots match the creative vision and final cut requirements.
- Troubleshoot and refine simulations to ensure smoothness and accuracy during recording, especially in complex or technical scenes.
- Maintain consistency across shots in terms of aircraft positioning, lighting, and other environmental elements to ensure a cohesive final product.
- Passion for aviation with a strong desire to share knowledge with others.
- Ability to explain aviation topics in an engaging, enthusiastic, and easy-to-understand way.
- Advanced experience using flight simulation software such as Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane, and potentially other simulators like Prepar3D or Aerofly FS.
- Experience in content creation and production, including familiarity with working from shot lists and executing detailed production plans.
- Basic understanding of cinematography, camera angles, and scene composition to ensure high-quality output from flight simulators.
- Strong attention to detail to ensure accuracy and consistency across recorded scenes.
- Collaborative mindset, able to work closely with a production team to achieve the project's vision.