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Richard Pike

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Location: Blountville, Tennessee

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:58 am Post subject: Landing at Indian Springs

Went flying for a bit yesterday, this is the landing at my place. If you look close you can see Ed's FSII landing while I am approaching.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1723870789084#!/photo.php?v=2171928133303

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Kingsport, TN 3TN0

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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 12:22 pm Post subject: Landing at Indian Springs

Great video!

 How much runway do you regularly use?

 What do you consider the minimum?

 Bill Rice

 N505BR

  In a message dated 10/24/2011 2:01:54 P.M. US Eastern Daylight Time,  richard(at)bcchapel.org writes:

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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 12:27 pm Post subject: Landing at Indian Springs

Went flying for a bit yesterday>>



Lovely pics. Nice countryside with the fall colours just coming in. As in 

the UK everything is late this year with the trees only now beginning to 

change.



I assume that you have a camera on your helmet. What is it?  . Those pics 

were some of the clearest I have seen



very nice



Pat

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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:44 pm Post subject: Landing at Indian Springs

thanks Richard,  I needed that.

BB

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On 24, Oct 2011, at 1:58 PM, Richard Pike wrote:



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 Went flying for a bit yesterday, this is the landing at my place. If you look close you can see Ed's FSII landing while I am approaching.

 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1723870789084#!/photo.php?v=2171928133303

 

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 Richard Pike

 Kolb MKIII N420P (420ldPoops)

 richard (at) bcchapel(dot)org

 Kingsport, TN 3TN0

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Richard Pike

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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:21 am Post subject: Re: Landing at Indian Springs

Camera is a Kodak Zi8, shoots in HD, battery life about 90 minutes. That's the good part, the bad part is that it's flat shape makes it very difficult to come up with any sort of external mount that doesn't get severely buffeted by the wind, making the pictures jerky.



So I made a headset mount, the theory is that whatever I am looking at, the camera is pointing at. The problem is that I do keep my head on a swivel while flying, so the camera panning action is not smooth. I shot about an hour and a half of video, and most of it I was not satisfied with for that reason.



Here is the mount: and old headset and a scrap of aluminum angle.

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Richard Pike
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Kingsport, TN 3TN0

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Richard Pike

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Location: Blountville, Tennessee

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:28 am Post subject: Re: Landing at Indian Springs

 	  SEASTARSR(at)aol.com wrote: 	
		  Great video!

 How much runway do you regularly use?

 What do you consider the minimum?

 Bill Rice

 N505BR

  	




I have 750', in the summer with a passenger I like having all of it, in the winter I could probably get by with less. Bear in mind that landing is uphill and takeoff is downhill into the prevailing wind and that is a great asset. If it was flat land then I would consider it minimum, because the terrain in the immediate area is not very forgiving and there are tall high tension lines to cross or turn to avoid right off the end of the runway.



Here is my page from our Mountain Empire Sport Flyers club website; if any of my friends drop in who have not thoroughly scouted the place out first, this is a sort of heads up -  

http://www.bcchapel.org/MESF/3TN0.html

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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:50 am Post subject: Re: Landing at Indian Springs

Nice Post !

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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:22 am Post subject: Landing at Indian Springs

Camera is a Kodak Zi8,>>#

Thanks Richard,



The pic on your page is pretty good too.



Pat

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