Cool vid Rich! The magic hour is when I do most of my flying unless I am going somewhere. I love the magic hour!

The grass hanging on the axle was an added bonus.

Kurt

Fun video Rich. It looks like you have a greasy thumb print on the lower, left area of your lens. The focus there is always a bit blurry and it caused some light scatter.

I grew up hearing that time of day called the "golden hour" and enjoy getting out then as well. Here's a short little video of a flight I did to enjoy that hour of the day when I lived in Virginia. I love the warm color of the light that time of day, especially if I get to land to the east and don't have to look into that setting sun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtHHyvRUcwg

Flyhound wrote:Fun video Rich. It looks like you have a greasy thumb print on the lower, left area of your lens. The focus there is always a bit blurry and it caused some light scatter.

A bug committed harakiri during a previous circuit. *sigh*

Flyhound wrote:I grew up hearing that time of day called the "golden hour" and enjoy getting out then as well. Here's a short little video of a flight I did to enjoy that hour of the day when I lived in Virginia.

Yeah, it's a beautiful time of day. I need to be better about taking the time to fly in it!

I took this somewhat fuzzy picture yesterday about 20 minutes before sun down.

I recently developed a spring on my property, and ran 700' of line to a 700 gallon storage tank, installed a solar powered pump, and bought a timer to operate it all. Two zones, alternated night to night, 1.5 hours each night. My first time experience with underground popup type sprinklers, and I was real concerned about the 14 % grade messing with them, but they are "pressure compensating". You can see the bottom 40', where I didn't install anything, is what the entire runway (400') would normally look like, all dried out. Also, the right hand side is a bit less green then the left, that's because I only ran one main line, on the left, I wasn't trying for a frigging golf course or residential lawn uniform green ness, I only have 700 gallons every night to play with so it's all a compromise. I am real happy with the result, and it's only been 3 weeks, wait until I hit it all spring and summer next year. I recently got a flail mower for my tractor, and it gives a much better cut then my brush hog, plus have a lot of volunteer alfafa that has moved in I want to encourage.

I was asked by a non pilot friend, "what's the point", and I looked at him like he was an idiot. The POINT is obviously, when I come in to land near sunset, it's GREEN instead of all dried out, and I also don't leave a dust trail behind me when I look back after takeoff, that is what started the entire project. Duhhh...

14 percent makes that 400 feet equal about 1000 feet., I think

Yeah, plenty long for the S-7, even at 5460'asl. I use about half, and take off at reduced throttle settings. Flat ground take offs suck!