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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 3:46 pm    Post subject: Interesting Weekend (somewhat Kitfox related) Reply with quote

This weekend was interesting to say the least considering on Friday
afternoon I had no real plans, except one. One of our own went down a week
or two ago as he was participating in a Defense Department test off the East
Coast. See: http://www.bd5.com/ for brief details. Friends here in Cameron
Park hosted a memorial get-together Saturday, to honor his memory with the
usual exciting fly-bys.

Along with this,there was a production crew form CNBC that had caught a
recent feature article in the San Francisco Chronicle about a local man,
living around the corner from me, that commutes daily from his home here to
the Bay Area in his Bonanza - about 70 miles (two to three hours by auto
depending on traffic. A producer from the cable network thought she could
do a "fun" piece on airpark living, his commute and what he might see on
his way to work.

Early Saturday they filmed a mock commute; taping from the cockpit of his
Bonanza. Later in the day they taped some footage of some of the locals
cruising the steet / taxyways and asked I would wash my airplane for some
additional video. The producer saw the video camera mounted on my Model IV
and asked if I had any footage of the ride from here to the Bay Area
particularly the bridges that feed the San Francisco Peninsula - the San
Francisco Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate bridge. I told her that I did, but
would have to find it in the collection of tapes I have accumulated.

I looked all afternoon and couldn't find the tape. I found lots of Idaho,
the 2004 trip to Oshkosh, the Desert Fox Squadron trips, but no Bay Area. I
did give her a tape I shot locally last winter over the American River near
Coloma where the first gold was found that triggered the Californian Gold
Rush. It was one of those cold clear days with great visibility and a low
fog over the foothill river valleys with pine trees stretching into the
clear above the fog. Then some shots of Folsom Lake with the Cameron Park
take off and landing.

I thought that was the end of it. I got a call early Sunday morning from
the producer and she said she loved my tape and that my footage was better
than that taken from the Bonanza and in short coaxed me into flying to the
Bay Area this morning for another try at it.

Not being too swift on the ATC stuff - Cameron Park and my usual haunts and
those of our flying group are usually far off the beaten path and far from
the major population centers, especially SFOs Class B airspace - I asked my
Lancair builder friend to come along and man the radios. The day went
absolutely great. Hot in Cameron Park - 106� - meant our wether was
dominated by a high pressure that rendered the usual summer coastal fog a
non issue. We flew down the Sacramento River to the Bay at 2000 ft., up the
Eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, past Berkeley on our left, we dropped
down to 1400 ft to tuck under the approach of Oakland International Airport
along the Bay Bridge, past Down Town and Fisherman's Warf, up the Northern
edge of San Francisco, made two passes along the Golden Gate Bridge - North
on the inland side and South on the ocean side, past the The Palace of the
Legion of Honor, the Presidio, Cliff House, Golden Gate Park, Sunset Beach,
Harding park, the Zoo, down to and over Half Moon Bay where Clint Bazzill
keeps his Model IV, then on to Palo Alto airport where I relinquised the
video tape to the producer.

The weather was absolutely perfect giving us spectacular visibility and with
air as still as glass - not a bump until we crossed the coast range from the
ocean side to the bay side, then glass again. I forgot to bring another
tape for the return trip, but no problem as we decided to make the return
trip home as high as we needed to to enjoy a little cool air. Can't see
much at 6500 ft. where we had to go before the outside temps dropped below
80�. All too soon it was right back down to hot.

I am promised the return of the tape and if it is looks half as good as it
did on the monitor, I will put it onto a DVD and make available to those
interested.

With that in mind, I was aware that there is a no photography clause in my
insurance and this morning while talking to a Falcon insurance agent for
another reason, I asked about the clause. For those interested.
Photography is not prohibited, even my video taping with my permanently
mounted camera is not prohibited. Giving the video away is not prohibited,
but he said that selling a photograph or a video or segments of a video shot
from an "experimenal" aircraft as a commercial venture is prohibited. This
even if the photo is shot for personal use and much later someone wants to
purchase the rights to the photo, "spec photos". I asked if I could remove
that clause from the insurance with an additional premium, he said. "No". I
had read the FARs last night and the specific commercial prohibitions are
related to "carrying persons or property for compensation or hire". I guess
the insurance companies are intrepreting this part quite broadly.

I mention this for information purposes and for the reason that for those
interested in a disk, I would appreciate a "donation" proportionate to the
actual costs of the disks and postage.

Lowell


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 4:50 pm    Post subject: Interesting Weekend (somewhat Kitfox related) Reply with quote

Sounds cool Lowell! Let us know when the production is ready.
Dan

Lowell Fitt <lcfitt(at)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
[quote]--> Kitfox-List message posted by: "Lowell Fitt"

This weekend was interesting to say the least considering on Friday
afternoon I had no real plans, except one. One of our own went down a week
or two ago as he was participating in a Defense Department test off the East
Coast. See: http://www.bd5.com/ for brief details. Friends here in Cameron
Park hosted a memorial get-together Saturday, to honor his memory with the
usual exciting fly-bys.

Along with this,there was a production crew form CNBC that had caught a
recent feature article in the San Francisco Chronicle about a local man,
living around the corner from me, that commutes daily from his home here to
the Bay Area in his Bonanza - about 70 miles (two to three hours by auto
depending on traffic. A producer from the cable network thought she could
do a "fun" piece on airpark living, his commute and what he might see on
his way to work.

Early Saturday they filmed a mock commute; taping from the cockpit of his
Bonanza. Later in the day they taped some footage of some of the locals
cruising the steet / taxyways and asked I would wash my airplane for some
additional video. The producer saw the video camera mounted on my Model IV
and asked if I had any footage of the ride from here to the Bay Area
particularly the bridges that feed the San Francisco Peninsula - the San
Francisco Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate bridge. I told her that I did, but
would have to find it in the collection of tapes I have accumulated.

I looked all afternoon and couldn't find the tape. I found lots of Idaho,
the 2004 trip to Oshkosh, the Desert Fox Squadron trips, but no Bay Area. I
did give her a tape I shot locally last winter over the American River near
Coloma where the first gold was found that triggered the Californian Gold
Rush. It was one of those cold clear days with great visibility and a low
fog over the foothill river valleys with pine trees stretching into the
clear above the fog. Then some shots of Folsom Lake with the Cameron Park
take off and landing.

I thought that was the end of it. I got a call early Sunday morning from
the producer and she said she loved my tape and that my footage was better
than that taken from the Bonanza and in short coaxed me into flying to the
Bay Area this morning for another try at it.

Not being too swift on the ATC stuff - Cameron Park and my usual haunts and
those of our flying group are usually far off the beaten path and far from
the major population centers, especially SFOs Class B airspace - I asked my
Lancair builder friend to come along and man the radios. The day went
absolutely great. Hot in Cameron Park - 106� - meant our wether was
dominated by a high pressure that rendered the usual summer coastal fog a
non issue. We flew down the Sacramento River to the Bay at 2000 ft., up the
Eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, past Berkeley on our left, we dropped
down to 1400 ft to tuck under the approach of Oakland International Airport
along the Bay Bridge, past Down Town and Fisherman's Warf, up the Northern
edge of San Francisco, made two passes along the Golden Gate Bridge - North
on the inland side and South on the ocean side, past the The Palace of the
Legion of Honor, the Presidio, Cliff House, Golden Gate Park, Sunset Beach,
Harding park, the Zoo, down to and over Half Moon Bay where Clint Bazzill
keeps his Model IV, then on to Palo Alto airport where I relinquised the
video tape to the producer.

The weather was absolutely perfect giving us spectacular visibility and with
air as still as glass - not a bump until we crossed the coast range from the
ocean side to the bay side, then glass again. I forgot to bring another
tape for the return trip, but no problem as we decided to make the return
trip home as high as we needed to to enjoy a little cool air. Can't see
much at 6500 ft. where we had to go before the outside temps dropped below
80�. All too soon it was right back down to hot.

I am promised the return of the tape and if it is looks half as good as it
did on the monitor, I will put it onto a DVD and make available to those
interested.

With that in mind, I was aware that there is a no photography clause in my
insurance and this morning while talking to a Falcon insurance agent for
another reason, I asked about the clause. For those interested.
Photography is not prohibited, even my video taping with my permanently
mounted camera is not prohibited. Giving the video away is not prohibited,
but he said that selling a photograph or a video or segments of a video shot
from an "experimenal" aircraft as a commercial venture is prohibited. This
even if the photo is shot for personal use and much later someone wants to
purchase the rights to the photo, "spec photos". I asked if I could remove
that clause from the insurance with an additional premium, he said. "No". I
had read the FARs last night and the specific commercial prohibitions are
related to "carrying persons or property for compensation or hire". I guess
the insurance companies are intrepreting this part quite broadly.

I mention this for information purposes and for the reason that for those
interested in a disk, I would appreciate a "donation" proportionate to the
actual costs of the disks and postage.

Lowell


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:56 pm    Post subject: Interesting Weekend (somewhat Kitfox related) Reply with quote

Great Story Lowell

Sign me up for a copy of the flight.�

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