---------------------------------------------------------- Kolb-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Fri 08/08/14: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 12:13 PM - ground effects (Larry Cottrell) 2. 01:10 PM - Re: ground effects (b young) 3. 01:36 PM - Re: ground effects (Larry Cottrell) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 12:13:34 PM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: ground effects From: Larry Cottrell 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 owyheeflyer Larry -- *If you forward this email, or any part of it, please remove my email address before sending.* ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 01:10:50 PM PST US From: "b young" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: 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 -- If you forward this email, or any part of it, please remove my email addres s before sending. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protec tion is active. http://www.avast.com ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 01:36:06 PM PST US Subject: Re: Kolb-List: ground effects From: Larry Cottrell 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 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 > *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. 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