Removing passenger side door cessna 172S
I've flown and been behind the camera in both configurations (in a place and time far from here, where rules were "for the guidance of etc...) and agree that the window open method is far superior.
Door off results in uncomfortable buffeting, to the extent that I was leaning away from the door in an effort to hold the camera steady - after losing an expensive pair of sunnies whilst peering out to see if a vertical shot was feasible
. The first time I tried the open window, said bar stool expert had insisted that the window could slam down, so an extra body was loaded for the sole purpose of keeping my arm and camera intact, but we never found any tendency for the window to do anything but float open in the airflow under normal flight conditions.
Much less fun than zooming around a harbour basin at or below the level of the crane jibs, but modern drones do have certain safety advantages!
Door off results in uncomfortable buffeting, to the extent that I was leaning away from the door in an effort to hold the camera steady - after losing an expensive pair of sunnies whilst peering out to see if a vertical shot was feasible
. The first time I tried the open window, said bar stool expert had insisted that the window could slam down, so an extra body was loaded for the sole purpose of keeping my arm and camera intact, but we never found any tendency for the window to do anything but float open in the airflow under normal flight conditions.Much less fun than zooming around a harbour basin at or below the level of the crane jibs, but modern drones do have certain safety advantages!
The 172s my club uses were LAME modified (standard door hinges replaced with modified quick release ones) to allow quick removal of the doors but only some of the clubs instructors have official sign off in their logbooks to remove them. Not sure how much of this is similar in Aussie but it wouldn't surprise me if its even more convoluted.
The NZ FM supplement for door removal in 172s only allows the right hand door to be removed.
The NZ FM supplement for door removal in 172s only allows the right hand door to be removed.
Yeah, purely an Aussie thing to fly from the back seat while two photographers do their thing in the front to kill half the hire time!
