I posted some videos on the Bearhawk Forum, and thought I'd post them here as well. They are mostly TO's and Landing stuff so for some it will be like watching paint dry.

Some of my videos are rather amateurish as it takes time to learn mounting, filming and editing and these were early attempts but are still fun to watch. This one is okay, some of the other's were video training exercises and it shows.

In this video, the runway entrance was blocked for both landings and take off's, so we improvised; easy to do in the Bearhawk and Rans S-7. Four LEO's watched us land in the parking lot and didn't have any concerns.

https://vimeo.com/136455343

I also posted this Video in the 2015 HSF thread for those coming from the east. So many of you may have seen this recently.

More to follow.

Thanks to Maverick's better half Crystal catching some of our antics while excising the Bearhawks at their ranch. We had 3 flying this day, Maverick's/Cowdog's, Kevin's, and mine.

https://vimeo.com/136680530

Here is one from the Chicken Strip. Kinda like the place and try to visit often. It was fun chasing Coyote Ugly around the desert on the way in. As nice as the weather looks in the Video, we were in for a surprise later in the day.

The second to the last photo in the video is of Fish Valley hot springs. We left there only to have the wind pick up to about 45kts, knocking the crap out of us. Realizing we were sort on range due to the headwinds, Pop's suggested we see if the local bordello still had fuel as he had used it as a fuel stop before (likely excuse). We were sure hopeful to get out of the sky as the turbulence was down right nasty. Circling we realized there were too many wires about so we continued into to Mina, landed and taxied into to town.

The gas station was closed. There was another on the other end of town. Pop's called his buddy who we found out was driving a water truck west of town and said he'd be there to help us out in a while. We decided to grab a burger. That turned out to be the best one I had in a long time, a welcome morsel. It was getting late in the day and the wind was getting worse.

The water truck showed up with some gas cans so we made a few trips back and forth standing on the running boards holding on with one hand with a 5-gallon jug in the other. By the time we got both planes fueled with enough gas to make Austin, it was dark. And I mean dark! With the head lights from the water truck trying to illuminate the runway, we back taxied. By the time we got to the other end of the runway, the dust was blowing so hard, we could just barely make out the head lights. Off we went into the wild blue darkness for Austin. Then it began to snow and dam was it ever cold. we slogged along in obvious MVFR with the only thing keeping our optimism up was the lights of towns visible off the left wings.

we made it to Austin, but not an easy fight or one we would care to do again, of course the wind was still blowing hard and the turbulence continued. Anyway, we had a great time at the hot springs and would do that part again in an instant. I carry a sleeping bag now, just in case.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch granny be_ts off the In_ians to save the sp_e_d....

More playing at Cowdog's and Maverick ranch.... 8,000-foot DA day. White/blue and Red/Silver had 30 gallons on board. Red/White had 50.

https://vimeo.com/136466992

This time, wing mount views.... Same day at Cowdogs and Maverick's. Still 8,000ft DA.

https://vimeo.com/136516113

Here's one of Hal's Big Bore Zipper vs a turbo 914 Rotax.... Both Rans S-7's.

https://vimeo.com/97017752

This from a Caveman Ranch fly, outside of Moab, UT and was taken a few years back. The ponds are dyed blue to aid evaporation for recovery of potash (potassium chloride, KCl). Potash is primarily used as a fertilizer.

https://vimeo.com/136899324

This is another video from the Caveman Ranch fly in. Please excuse the jello effect it was filmed using and older Drift Camera. Takeoff is from Doris Point and landing is at Hubbard Field in Gateway CO. The dive through the rock formation just after takeoff cost me big time on the domestic front. I've learned to be more careful about doing things like that when the wife is on board or it gets really cold really quick.

https://vimeo.com/136899271

And more video taken at the Boyd Ranch. DA was 8,000 ft. Both ground and wing mounted cameras...

https://vimeo.com/136469791

https://vimeo.com/136574156

https://vimeo.com/136472295

Good stuff, Mike!

Thanks for sharing Mike! I really liked the Doris Point to Hubbard Field footage ...... beautiful scenery

Glad you like them. I hope to get a few more up loaded soon..

Here are some from Joe's play areas around Austin... About 11 to 12k DA, except for the road, that was only about 6k DA.

https://vimeo.com/137215603

https://vimeo.com/137209561

https://vimeo.com/137088312

https://vimeo.com/137093064

So before and after the main events of the fly in, several of us decided to go play in the hills and also at a hot spring located adjacent to a dry lake bed. Being lazy pilots, we decided that was too far of a walk so landed close and taxied in; except for Steve in the Super STOL, he just landed next to them! This video is a bit long at about 10 minutes and isn't anything fancy, just a collection of clips and photos from "around" the area. Hope it doesn't put anyone to sleep!

Dang, it takes a long time to edit all these. For now I don't have the patience to make any thing fancy.


I should add to watch out for other airplanes when you watch this. In case anyone is wondering, yes we knew where the others were at at all times and kept in close communication. So while some planes will appear "out of no where" in the video, we had each other in sight.

https://vimeo.com/137551224

I just noticed, these play in higher quality if you go directly to Vimeo to watch. Not sure why that is, maybe Zzz can comment.

Click on the blue "Vimeo" in the bottom right corner to go to my Vimeo page.

blackrock wrote:I just noticed, these play in higher quality if you go directly to Vimeo to watch. Not sure why that is, maybe Zzz can comment.

Click on the blue "Vimeo" in the bottom right corner to go to my Vimeo page.

That's how Vimeo embeds work for free accounts. If you're a Plus member people can watch your video in HD at the remote embed location.

Also, your videos will embed at a large size if you use our BBcode, e.g.:

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Still not sure why it won't work as I am a plus member. Just paid for it a month or so ago. If I use the BBcode, then people can't see the link using iPhones or iPads, at least I can't so I used the [url code instead.

So the video quality is much better this morning. Strange. There must have been an anomaly in the space-time continuum at Vimeo yesterday. All back to normal and as it should be now.

Hey mike,

Thanks for posting all the videos. They are great. One day I need to get up your way to pay you a visit.

Take care,

Marc
Cloudbase Engineering LLC

Yes, it would good to meet up. Let's go flying! I'm between Elko and Tucson a lot so not sure where I'll be on any particular week.

Are you going to HSF?