Humungous .wmv video file (84 meg) of his event is at: woodchurch
My passenger shot lots, and I've just found out how to edit out the wobbliest bits.
Includes (in approximate order):
* climbout from Rochester, and some shots of Maidstone
* arrival and landing at Woodchurch (not too bad for my 3rd C152 landing in 4 years)
* most of the first world war replicas' display
* Diane Britten's display
* the hurricane pair
* Sally 'B' with 2 mustangs
* 2 mustangs tearing up the sky and howling beautifully
* F86 Sabre with 2 mustangs
* Yak Aerostars formation
* Single hawk
* journey home in fairly close formation with a mate in his PA28-140
(edited to fix the link - d'oh!)
Last edited by SteveR : 10th August 2004 at 19:57.
This may be a little off topic, but I was linked to this thread from another forum. I just started to look through the pages and I d/led a movie that was 443mb found on the 1st or second page. When I try to open it, WMP tried to find and/or download a codec and fails. Anyone know where I could find this codec?
Different Steve, but I still know the answer The URL associated with the link is not correct; however, the text is -- if you just copy and paste to your address bar, it will work fine.
BTW, a big thank you to all of you who have posted videos here -- they were a big inspiration to me while wrapping up my PPL (just finished last month). My 3 yr old son loves them too. If I can manage to make one of my own, I'll be sure to share with you all.
Hmm -- guess us Steve's aren't doing too well...oh well (actually, the copy & paste thing did work for me -- but Andy's solution is definitely the better one).
Can anyone help FalcoNg finding a codec to run the video on his machine? All I can suggest is looking at the Microsoft Windows help pages covering codecs.
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Thanks for all of the great videos... especially you, Dufo - excellent work!
Seeing them has made me ask some of my passengers to bring their cameras on a few recent trips so we could get some footage to show you all. I have a video from a trip to Ostend last month which I haven't edited yet .. that will be online soon... but I do have one of a trip I did to Le Touquet last weekend that's ready to show you now.
It was filmed and edited by Alex, one of my passengers.
Right-click, and select Save As... The Video (30MB)
Probably not the right place to get in to a discussion about it but when I was recently in Australia flying a PA28-181, we used to get a stall warning buzz on the majority of takeoffs. We were about 90% Max weight on the takeoff (C of G well inside limits) and tried increasing the rotation speed to 70-75kts but still it buzzed.
The Instructor who was doing my checkout said it was just due to ground effect swirling the air round the warning vain.
All the same it is not the most comforting sound immediately after getting airbourne!
Maybe another thread to discuss this would be beneficial?
I'm surprised the thing actually worked to start with. I've only heard it once before, and it normally doesnt work even when intentionally stalling.
It's a bicycle-style bell (ridiculous design). Sometimes the engineer will adjust it and it will work for a while, but stops soon after. It needs to be replaced with an electronic buzzer.
On the video, we were at least 20 knots above the stalling speed in that configuration when the bell came on.
In my 150 hours of experience on 5 types of light aircraft, I've noticed that each type has it's own quirks of stall warning behaviour (independent of actual stalling behaviour).
On 3 of the types I have flown, it's completely normal to hear the stall warning on takeoff, especially near MTOW as was the case on this flight.
I thought it could be something to do with low-level turbulence.....
The reason you hear it for so long in the video is that since I decided we weren't in any danger of stalling, I didn't want to upset my passengers (2 of them had never been in a light aircraft before) with a -2g push to shut the alarm up, so I slowed the climb gradually.
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