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Jimmy Young

Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Posts: 182
Location: Missouri City, TX

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject: rookie video

Kolbers,



Cecil B. Cotrell's videos are so enjoyable to me, I decided I need to get with it and start shooting some myself. I've got a lot to learn, but I'm starting with this one. I shot it with the video function on my digital camera, which I did not even know was on there until recently.



I was flying the Texas coastline between Freeport and Matagorda this morning. The bay system to the right is an area I fished at for years, and it was very neat flying over the same coves I used to go wade-fishing in. The beach provides a decent off-field landing spot in case of trouble, and there are no homes within miles of where I am flying low at. 



Enjoy!



Jimmy Y



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P_CIJko4L0

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John Hauck

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
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Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:38 pm Post subject: rookie video

> I was flying the Texas coastline between Freeport and Matagorda this 

morning.  >

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		   Jimmy Y



 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P_CIJko4L0


	




Jimmy Y/Gang:



I enjoyed the flight.



John W, Gary H, Ken K, and I flew the beach from Port Arthur, Texas, to the 

Mexican Border.  Turned right and flew up the Rio Grand River to the Pecos 

River, then back to Arlington, Texas, Houston, TX, and finally home to 

Alabama.



Brought back some fine memories of this flight which took place the first of 

December 2005.



john h

mkIII



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Richard Pike

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
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Location: Blountville, Tennessee

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:40 pm Post subject: Re: rookie video

Good video. Noticed that as the camera panned back and forth from behind the Lexan, it appears that your windscreen is lightly tinted. If so, where did you get the tinted Lexan? Or is that just the camera adapting to light changes?



Richard Pike

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lcottrell

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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 6:53 pm Post subject: rookie video

Very nice Jimmy, thanks for the video. 

 Larry Cottrell

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rlaird

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 373
Location: Houston

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:25 pm Post subject: rookie video

Man o' man, I used to do that a lot when I hangared down there at

Bailes.... I sure do miss those days and flights along the beah!

Thanks for the memories...!  Maybe by this time next year we'll be

able to do these flights together.  Hope there's room at Bailes for my

Kolb and Gyrobee!



  -- Robert



On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Jimmy Young<jdy100(at)comcast.net> wrote:

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 Kolbers,



 Cecil B. Cotrell's videos are so enjoyable to me, I decided I need to get with it and start shooting some myself. I've got a lot to learn, but I'm starting with this one. I shot it with the video function on my digital camera, which I did not even know was on there until recently.



 I was flying the Texas coastline between Freeport and Matagorda this morning. The bay system to the right is an area I fished at for years, and it was very neat flying over the same coves I used to go wade-fishing in. The beach provides a decent off-field landing spot in case of trouble, and there are no homes within miles of where I am flying low at.



 Enjoy!



 Jimmy Y



 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P_CIJko4L0



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 Jimmy Young

 FS II, HKS 700

 N7043P





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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:37 am Post subject: rookie video

Texas coastline between Freeport and Matagorda >>



Hi Jimmy,

thanks for the pics. really enjoyable.

About 50 years ago I was staying in Houston with a Rotary Exchange team and 

knowing that I was interested in  flying I was billeted on a flyer.

This guy had a house about as big my home town and a pile of money it would 

take you a week to walk round.

He turned up for breakfast in a denim shirt ,blue jeans (which I don`t think 

we had in the UK at that time) complete with belt a  big silver buckle with 

the head of a longhorn on it, and a pair of patterned cowboy boots.

Y` wanna fly? "he said. We clambered into a Ford F100 with a couple of guns 

in a  rack between  the seats. There were holes to put our Coors in on the 

dashboard. Guns and beer in a moving vehicle,! In fact drinking while we 

drove!. This was a new world for  this wet behind the ears Brit fresh from a 

country where almost nobody had a gun, and nobody drank in a vehicle, let 

alone have a holder for the beer fitted as standard..

We drove to a `cow pasture` a couple of miles away (still on his ranch) at 

the end of which was a beaten up old corrugated iron shed. The guy took a 

key from his pocket, unlocked the shed and we dragged out a fairly scruffy 

Cessna.

Preflight? Forget it. We dipped the oil, climbed in and turned the starter, 

taxied up the field a took off." I`ve got some cattle on some islands offf 

the coast" he said. We flew down the Inter coastal to Matagordo and he found 

his islands and went down to nought feet to inspect his cattle. He stood 

this plane on its wingtip nearly at sea level while he looked over his herd. 

I have never seen anyone do so many damn stupid things in my life. This guy 

flew with the same sort of belief in his ability that a sixteen year old kid 

has on his bike. The plane was just an extension of his senses. If he wanted 

to fly THERE, thats where the plane went. After my first sheer terror I just 

resigned my self  to be being killed in the near future and enjoyed it

After inspecting the cattle we got a bit of height and flew along the coast 

looking at an oil rig being towed along the Intercoastal .. We inspected the 

scene of an accident where a tug  had lost its string of barges. They were 

stuck on sandbanks and up the beach for a couple of miles.

Something else I had never seen was a train of barges being pushed. We pull 

them in Europe.  A great flight.

Thanks for reminding me.



Cheers



Pat

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Jimmy Young

Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Posts: 182
Location: Missouri City, TX

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:33 am Post subject: Re: rookie video

Richard Pike asked:



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		  it appears that your windscreen is lightly tinted. If so, where did you get the tinted Lexan? 	
 



Richard,



Yes, it is tinted light grey. I got it at A & C Plastics in Houston http://www.acplasticsinc.com/ ,but it's brand name is "Makrolon". They had both 1/16" & 1/8" thickness available when I bought it last fall.

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