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It took me two tries to get airborne this morning. There was a freak shower
that basically covered my house and hanger. I had taxied out to the spot
that I warm the engine up and the sprinkle turned into a rain shower. The
wife suggested that I return to the hanger to wait it out. The shock to my
system was so much that the wife had to throw a bucket of sand in my face
to wake me up.
It took about 5 minutes to stop so I rolled out and took off for my morning
check of the Cows. I have been a little disappointed in the quality of my
Drift video camera. The image just isn't as sharp and rich as I would like
it. Operator error I am sure. I shut down the shutter two stops, and I
intended to try it to see if it was better. The last couple of videos that
I have made used the "enhancement " feature of my editing program, and they
were better, but still washed out somewhat. I am expecting the delivery of
a Garmin Virb camera this afternoon, and will be comparing it to the drift.
I wanted the drift to be set properly for that comparison. I have since
decided that one F stop would have been better.
After I was in the air, I remembered that I had not turned on the camera
for my second try. I didn't want to go home just yet, so I landed on the
dirt road that goes to the Alvord from the ranch. The road is pretty
smooth, but only one car wide, with an 8 inch berm on each side of the
road. There were some twists and turns in the road for a ways, so I drove
down the road looking for a straight enough road to take off on. After a
couple of minutes I hit a bit of a straight stretch and started my take
off. I was not quite up to comfortable flying speed when a curve in the
road was fast approaching. No worries, I popped it up into ground effects
and leveled it out just above the brush and kept it there for the few
seconds that it took to gain flying speed. No problem!
https://vimeo.com/102946520
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Larry
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Subject: | Re: ground effects |
guess I thought the drift had a remote start... before I can pop up in gro
und effect I need longer gear legs,,,, always something to spend more mone
y on.
starting a soft checked as he typed =9CI want to see the video of th
e rain dance=9D he decided it might not be something he really want
ed to see. LOL
boyd
From: Larry Cottrell
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 1:13 PM
Subject: Kolb-List: ground effects
It took me two tries to get airborne this morning. There was a freak shower
that basically covered my house and hanger. I had taxied out to the spot t
hat I warm the engine up and the sprinkle turned into a rain shower. The wi
fe suggested that I return to the hanger to wait it out. The shock to my sy
stem was so much that the wife had to throw a bucket of sand in my face to
wake me up.
It took about 5 minutes to stop so I rolled out and took off for my morning
check of the Cows. I have been a little disappointed in the quality of my
Drift video camera. The image just isn't as sharp and rich as I would like
it. Operator error I am sure. I shut down the shutter two stops, and I inte
nded to try it to see if it was better. The last couple of videos that I ha
ve made used the "enhancement " feature of my editing program, and they wer
e better, but still washed out somewhat. I am expecting the delivery of a G
armin Virb camera this afternoon, and will be comparing it to the drift. I
wanted the drift to be set properly for that comparison. I have since decid
ed that one F stop would have been better.
After I was in the air, I remembered that I had not turned on the camera fo
r my second try. I didn't want to go home just yet, so I landed on the dirt
road that goes to the Alvord from the ranch. The road is pretty smooth, bu
t only one car wide, with an 8 inch berm on each side of the road. There we
re some twists and turns in the road for a ways, so I drove down the road l
ooking for a straight enough road to take off on. After a couple of minutes
I hit a bit of a straight stretch and started my take off. I was not quite
up to comfortable flying speed when a curve in the road was fast approachi
ng. No worries, I popped it up into ground effects and leveled it out just
above the brush and kept it there for the few seconds that it took to gain
flying speed. No problem!
https://vimeo.com/102946520 owyheeflyer
Larry
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Subject: | Re: ground effects |
The drift does have a remote start, just not a turn on remote start. :-)
There was no rain dance- I couldn't believe that it was actually going to
rain. It started sprinkling just a bit as I prepared to get in the plane. I
looked up and there was a hankerchief sized cloud up there. I thought well
that will blow away soon, so I taxied out. When I couldn't see out of the
windscreen, Karen asked "Are you going to take off in that"? That was when
I realized it was actually raining, at least for a bit. Nothing got wet but
my windscreen however.
Larry
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:09 PM, b young <byoungplumbing@gmail.com> wrote:
> guess I thought the drift had a remote start... before I can pop up in
> ground effect I need longer gear legs,,,, always something to spend more
> money on.
>
> starting a soft checked as he typed =9CI want to see the video of
the rain
> dance=9D he decided it might not be something he really wanted to
see.
> LOL
>
> boyd
>
> *From:* Larry Cottrell <lcottrell1020@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, August 08, 2014 1:13 PM
> *To:* kolb-list@matronics.com
> *Subject:* Kolb-List: ground effects
>
> It took me two tries to get airborne this morning. There was a freak
> shower that basically covered my house and hanger. I had taxied out to th
e
> spot that I warm the engine up and the sprinkle turned into a rain shower
.
> The wife suggested that I return to the hanger to wait it out. The shock
to
> my system was so much that the wife had to throw a bucket of sand in my
> face to wake me up.
>
> It took about 5 minutes to stop so I rolled out and took off for my
> morning check of the Cows. I have been a little disappointed in the quali
ty
> of my Drift video camera. The image just isn't as sharp and rich as I wou
ld
> like it. Operator error I am sure. I shut down the shutter two stops, and
I
> intended to try it to see if it was better. The last couple of videos tha
t
> I have made used the "enhancement " feature of my editing program, and th
ey
> were better, but still washed out somewhat. I am expecting the delivery o
f
> a Garmin Virb camera this afternoon, and will be comparing it to the drif
t.
> I wanted the drift to be set properly for that comparison. I have since
> decided that one F stop would have been better.
>
> After I was in the air, I remembered that I had not turned on the camera
> for my second try. I didn't want to go home just yet, so I landed on the
> dirt road that goes to the Alvord from the ranch. The road is pretty
> smooth, but only one car wide, with an 8 inch berm on each side of the
> road. There were some twists and turns in the road for a ways, so I drove
> down the road looking for a straight enough road to take off on. After a
> couple of minutes I hit a bit of a straight stretch and started my take
> off. I was not quite up to comfortable flying speed when a curve in the
> road was fast approaching. No worries, I popped it up into ground effects
> and leveled it out just above the brush and kept it there for the few
> seconds that it took to gain flying speed. No problem!
>
> https://vimeo.com/102946520
> <https://vimeo.com/102946520?utm_source=email&utm_medium=clip-transco
de_complete-finished-20120100&utm_campaign=7701&email_id=Y2xpcF90cmFuc2
NvZGVkfDZlOTRjMTNhMzM2NGRiNWZmMGFiMzgzNGI1OGRlNzBjOTUyfDc2NDA2NDl8MTQwNzUxO
TMzNHw3NzAx>
> owyheeflyer
>
> Larry
>
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