Some things we do when the airplane is down....

Flying low...
http://vimeo.com/25817191

AKT

Another fun day in the high desert west of Mack Mesa. Two hours hugging the deck and dodging rain. Is this a great country or what?

aktahoe1 wrote:Some things we do when the airplane is down....

Flying low...
http://vimeo.com/25817191

AKT

Sweet!!

I usually do this canyon and have a lot of fun.
Last week while on one of my dirt bike tours we crossed the river, and I saw two wooden poles and 3 cables ,not much lower than the flight I do!!!
When flying it,I was looking for towers on the top of the mountains and wires across, this is a wooden pole in the middle of the face of the mountain and the cables running down towards a lower post.
Sometimes we are just lucky!
This is the one of risks of flying lower

Motoadve .
The video comes up as private.
This one's from last weekend.
John following me up my favorite low pass run.

Fixed

Motoadve

Nice video!

( I'm a student pilot, and couldn't help but notice how smooth you are on the controls)

Jim

Jim 541 wrote:Motoadve

Nice video!

( I'm a student pilot, and couldn't help but notice how smooth you are on the controls)

Jim

I'm no student but Jim is right. Like rockin' your baby. Good job Dave you have come a long way from the first video you posted.

Hey Motoadve. Nice video, the music goes well with it. I noticed there's little to none prop chop that is common with most action cams. What camera system are you using?

Im using a Go pro Hero 2, but added a filter, which is what helps with the prop distorsion.
http://www.polarprofilters.com/shop/gop ... er-filter/

I love flying low,

First flying job I had was pipeline patrol. 2,200 miles per week at 50 ft. agl. Flew under the powerlines when it was too foggy to fly over them. Loved to take my Pitts down into a 100 acre field bound by 80 ft. tall oak trees on all sides. Would make a race track pattern around inside at 10 feet above the ground..... doing 145 mph and sliding right up next to the trees. Did more scud running than anyone has a right to survive. Was once scud running across northwestern Nebraska. The ceiling kept getting lower and lower. I kept noticing all the telephone poles just about wing high....then suddenly realized that they were wooden fence posts!! Amazing how one can lose perspective over featureless terrian with low ceiling and low vis.

But I will never forgive myself for nearly killing my four small children. I was taking them on a joy ride through a deep valley in the hills of the Ozarks. I had flown the valley several times at low level. The kids were laughing and having a ball. All the sudden my windshield filled with large power lines drooping from one hilltop to the other across my flight path. I jammed the yoke forward, fully expecting to catch the vertical stabilizer. By some miracle we passed under the power lines.

Never again did I do low flying with loved ones on board. Indeed after surviving over 31,000 hours of flight.....I swore off scud running etc. after that event in Nebraska in 2002.

Have fun. Be careful. Don't be an irresponsible dad like I once was.

Bob