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Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2012 @ 03:05 PM  

Last weekend was such a beautiful one here in the north of Scotland I thought I'd post a photograph of my locality from about 10,000ft. The photograph was probably overhead Croick in Scotland, you can find it in Google Earth, and looks west towards Loch Broom and the Summer Isles. But for the haze you'd be able to see the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides though I think a little of the high ground of Harris can be made out on the horizon at the left.

The cloud formation was a little downstream of some weak wave and shows it breaking up somewhat but behind me the lenticulars were holding and the vario told that it was good for about 2 to 2.5 m/s.

A lovely flight.

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Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2012 @ 04:10 PM  

Beautiful area. Would like to visit there sometime. My mother was a Landrum and proud of her Scottish heritage.
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Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2012 @ 06:08 PM  

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Posted Thursday, October 25, 2012 @ 05:28 PM  

Donald,
beautiful and inspiring picture! Now tell me- did you save any gas up there?

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Posted Friday, October 26, 2012 @ 02:12 AM  

Thanks guys. I quite deliberately called my post "Pictures from my RF3" with the intention of posting others from time to time.

Jorgen, you mean did I shut it down? Well, no I didn't but I should have done if for nothing else for the glide back home.

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Posted Friday, October 26, 2012 @ 09:53 AM  

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I think you should try it. Fourniers aren't bad gliders and since I have actually made a couple of flights in the "Puchatz" of Aboyne glider club I do have some first hand experience of (and respect for) the wave lifts in Scotland. The week after we were there they broke an European height record for soaring if I remember correctly.

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Posted Friday, October 26, 2012 @ 02:21 PM  

Jorgen I'm not averse to shutting down the engine, I just didn't do it on Sunday. I don't really know why not for it's a long glide from 10,000ft. And you're right that we do get good wave in Scotland, a product of the lumpy terrain, and I've flown in it on occasion, the 'magic carpet ride'. The stuff on Sunday may have been better had I been a bit further south but I was on the slightly ragged trailing edge of it.
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Posted Friday, October 26, 2012 @ 08:15 PM  

Beautiful shot, Donald. I love how you can see the striped shadows on the ground. Frame that one!

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Posted Monday, November 19, 2012 @ 05:57 PM  

Thanks Dann,

This autumn, or fall to our American friends, in the north of Scotland has been quite remarkable for its extended calm weather. Usually within a couple of weeks of the equinox we get gales of wind that blow the trees bare and make a flight a rarity. Not so 2012, with about 8 weeks of kind conditions though perhaps it's making up for not much of a summer.
Anyway, I took a few shots of my local area when I was aloft on Saturday.

First one is a lovely local grass strip about 7 miles from home at Dornoch. If you're a golfer you will probably at least know the name. Skibo Castle is nearby where Madonna had her honeymoon with Guy Ritchie, if that means anything to you. What you won't see in the photo is a hangar so when we visit we just visit but I'd love to base there.

Second is shot a little farther west looking the other way.

Must get myself a Go Pro.

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Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2012 @ 10:24 AM  

Beautiful photos Donald,

Presumably that's the strip you were initially cautious about landing on?

You're very lucky to have had such a long spell of good weather.
Until yesterday our airstrip was under up to a foot of water.
I dug lots of drainage channels (almost breaking my back in the process) and by yesterday it had nearly all drained away.
I looked forward to making a test flight today, but now it's been raining heavily and continuously suince sunset yesterday, with two more days of heavy rain forecast... so that ain't gonna happen!

I wish you a rain-free winter (and next summer too, ideally)

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Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2012 @ 11:06 AM  

That area on the left looks like its flooding.

I don't think this area could take much more melting of the polar ice cap and rainfall.

Beautiful scenery!

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Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2012 @ 04:40 PM  

Heck no, Bob. Dornoch strip is about 800m!

This is the challenging strip I worked up to, or worked down to, last year.

The cut strip is not as shown but is more like the ruler line. Dornoch is where I went to practice your 'tail skimming' short field technique which opened the door for me. In this screen cap from Google Earth the bush I identified on the ground is clearly visible just over 140m from the edge of the numbers and is also visible in my overhead shot of the strip near the far end on the left.

jb92563, the water you can see i the foreground is the North Sea and the tide was in. Since there is normally a good beach in the foreground it must have been a spring tide or very close to it. Anyway, Dornoch is usually pretty firm and the weekend before there had been a Pilatus PC12 parked for several days and the wheels didn't sink in. During WW2 it was used by all sorts of heavy military iron up to 4 engine bombers so maybe the RAF put in a good foundation. It's also the venue for my only ever flight in a 2 seat Fournier, courtesy of Mike Millar in G-AZRM.

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Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2012 @ 10:51 AM  

Thanks very much for that explanation Donald,

Despite the apparent forshortening of the Dornoch strip, I still thought it looked quite long. Now all is explained.

335 metres really is quite short. Our Sussex strip was originally only 360 metres long, and sometimes we had to take off with a tailwind, making it very exciting. Nowadays it's more than 500 metres long, although the south-western fifty metres is currently under a foot of water!

The shortest I've ever landed a Fournier was in that forced landing last year. I think I Google-Earthed the driving range as 255metres, and unbeknown to me at the time, I had about ten knots of tailwind. The brake was of course hard on from immediately after touchdown.
That one was very, very exciting, and something I really do NOT want to repeat!

Have a good winter.

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Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2012 @ 04:00 PM  

Google Earth ruler tools says 335m but that's pretty much fence to fence and I reckon it's 310m max useable. With 360m I'd barely think twice about using it. My shortest landing was about 45m, on tarmac, but regrettably without benefit of the main gear. I cannot recommend it.

Today I had a look at the weather forecast for the weekend ahead and amazingly it looks as though it might hold up for us northerners yet again and I just might have to fournicate this Saturday. Sorry to rub it in since your part of Britain looks to be submerging but I thought you'd be in Oz by now.

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Posted Friday, November 23, 2012 @ 08:33 AM  

Yeah, we're 'drowning not waving' here.

I should have left for 'the other Perth' weeks ago, but I've been fitting dual-port heads to 'WGN, and of course it's far from straightforward.

We call it 'the Fournier Foxtrot' -- one step forward and then two steps back.

This little dance seems to permeate everything we do with our Fourniers, perhaps (probably) because Rene got everything right in the first place and all we can do is make things worse.

I should learn not to fiddle!

Home soon, I only have to get in a test flight... first opportunity seems likely to be about 18th June 2013!

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Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2012 @ 03:10 PM  

Hi Donald

Lovely photos. Brings back happy memories of our flight together from Dornoch - and the Har that fogged us in for a day!

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Posted Friday, April 5, 2013 @ 11:49 AM  

I've been wanting to do this sort of thing for a while and at last have got round to it. My first outing with my POV camera.
http://youtu.be/k_fpsHvRqow
This is into and out of the short strip mentioned earlier in this thread and uses the short field, 'tail skimming' technique propounded by Bob Grimstead elsewhere on this site.

Despite landing a little longer than optimum there was still plenty of room and I'm quite proud of the fact that I didn't 'spot' the field and make a 'carrier' landing. I also enjoy seeing the shadow race over the ground. I don't usually see that from the cockpit.

Hope you enjoy.

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Posted Friday, April 5, 2013 @ 12:24 PM  

Hiya Donald,

That is one extremely nice clip.

It is so good to see somebody demonstrating the almost lost art of the curved approach.
Even very few tailwheel 'pilots' seem able to do that these days.

And doesn't your aeroplane perform well!

Also, I do like the way you've been able to speed up the less interesting parts.

That's presumably a 'fruit' facility?

With my mini iPad I'm partly converted, but not quite completely yet.

Thank you very much for going to the trouble to film and share that footage.

May we have many more such blue days (but perhaps a little warmer) this summer.

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Posted Friday, April 5, 2013 @ 01:09 PM  

Donald,

Nice video! I like seeing the gear extension/retraction in the frame.

I wasn't aware of the DRIFT camera until now, looks like an alternative to the GoPro.

How did you mount the camera to the Fournier? Is it remotely controlled from the cockpit?

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Posted Friday, April 5, 2013 @ 02:53 PM  

Thanks Bob and Don. Glad you liked.

Bob, the curved approach is what I like to do. I find it fun, satisfying and easy to integrate all the fluid adjustments necessary to bring the plane to earth. And as you say it's amazing how few people do it. Several of my flying friends comment that they love to watch it done but they don't do it themselves. I find that strange.

I have more clips with another curved landing into Dornoch strip, shot from both outside and inside, which I will cut and post when I have the time.

Yes my little RF3 goes quite well but, ahem, it's all skill, don't you know.

The video editing is a steep learning curve and I'd say the ability to change the speed of parts is down to the app rather than that I'm on a Mac. I mentioned elsewhere on this forum that I have a couple of apps, iMovie, which is not bad but very linear, and Final Cut Express, very much more powerful and flexible. It's big brother is a fully pro app but the 'lite' version is fully featured enough to do me.

Don, I like the gear in shot too. In fact I rather like that you can see a little of the Fournier but that it doesn't dominate. That was luck more than judgement.

My mount is home-brewed from a 25mm dia nylon rod, an outrigger stalk, and is very much a work in progress, but here's a photo of the #1 version.

It clamps on to the root of the outrigger by the two M6 socket head screws. The holes are clearance through the long bar and are drilled and tapped into the short bar. The tapped thread doesn't go all the way through so it acts like a giant nylock nut. It's pretty solid and secure.
The other end has 1/4" machine screw drilled and tapped through to pick up the standard tripod socket in the camera. The aluminium knurled disk is threaded so that it can be tightened against the camera to lock at the required rotation. The black disc is a tap (faucet) washer for added friction.

#2 version will have a means to rotate the camera in azimuth so that I don't have to slew the entire rig

I've been dithering about a POV camera for ages and looked at GoPro, Drift, Contour and Sony (HDR-AS15). For picture quality I'd choose either Sony or GoPro but the Drift won it for me (HD 1080p) in that it didn't require anything special in the way of mounts and it comes with a wireless Start/Stop remote. Range of that isn't enough to let me put it on the wingtip but it will reach the outrigger. Plus, I got a reasonably good price on ebay. If money was more abundant I'd have gone for the Drift HD Ghost which is wi-fi enabled an which I could control from my iPod. The new GoPro 3 Black has that feature too but the iPhone/iPod app seems to get a good slating in the reviews.

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Posted Saturday, April 20, 2013 @ 03:12 AM  

I've uploaded my latest YouTube vid, this on the occasion of an outing to an Easter fly-in an hour's flight east of my home base.
Weather was a little variable and there was a good, stiff 90° crosswind on landing (certainly beyond the published 12kt limit) which wasn't one of my best, but there you go.

I've also been experimenting with camera mount positions and have discovered that the canopy latch handle makes a pretty good place to mount a bicycle handlebar clamp allowing shots forward, backward and across.

I find I can lose track of whether I've started or stopped the camera, there's no indicator on the remote, so the footage I end up with can be a little hit-and-miss and I fumbled the video on take off so don't have that part of the story. I also show briefly in the video, my apologies, but I did that for the benefit of my granddaughter who is thrilled that her grandpa has an aeroplane.

Learning more about cutting and splicing this stuff together but what I need now is some musical sense so that I can add a complimentary audio track.

Anyway, for those interested in wasting 6:30 minutes of their life, and for Bob-on-his-back, here is the link: http://youtu.be/cfus3278Lbg

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Posted Saturday, April 20, 2013 @ 04:02 AM  

Hi Donald

You're so lucky having such wonderful scenery and clear weather up in the Highlands, and hard runways at this time of year. I haven't been able to get the heavier RF5 up from waterlogged Ringmer this year so far!

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Posted Saturday, April 20, 2013 @ 05:59 AM  

Excellent video Donald,
I like all the different angles of the situation and I think your panel looks neat. I also like the way the Garmin III is kept off and you use the map instead!

And would you LOOK at all those ripe-looking cumuluseses- PLEASE tell me you at least made one circle to sample the lift?

May the 4's be with you/ Jörgen

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Posted Monday, April 22, 2013 @ 10:18 AM  

Yes we've been lucky with flyable weather so far this year Mike, though you wouldn't want to be wearing just shorts and a T-shirt.

Jorgen, the Garmin was on and ticking away the entire flight, out and back, but even with an easy route like that one I still like to have the map handy and to know where I am on it.

Didn't circle but did use the cloud streets to gain height.

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Posted Wednesday, April 24, 2013 @ 00:05 AM  

Thank you Donald, that was great.

It just makes me even more itchy to get back into the air.

Only a few more weeks....

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Posted Sunday, May 26, 2013 @ 03:38 PM  

As an annual event, IF (that's a big if) the weather is favourable the isle of Mull weekend is a great place to go. Lovely grass strip with a hotel right on the doorstep and glorious scenery and usually with a smattering of interesting aircraft to look at and talk about.

This weekend was it and I went there on the Saturday.

If I can make sense of the other clips I'll stitch them together and up load them for your idle moments.

I think there was a fault with that last video so I've re-uploaded to YouTube. Here is the updated link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od4lMSv7Cnw

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Posted Friday, February 7, 2014 @ 02:59 AM  

This was shot last October (2013) but I had to discover how to make color correction before I was prepared to post on YouTube as it came out of the camera rather dark and gloomy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uis9VP6LZ0o

Anyway, it has fresh relevance because this will soon be my new home. I'm building a hangar there, just 7 miles from home and free of the creeping control and security nausea that is engulfing the RF3's present base, Inverness airport and I'll be able to follow Jorgen's example and cycle to fly. I'm looking forward to that.

I have other footage from that gloomy shoot that I'll work on and post soon. That's of another local grass strip, laid over the top of a hill.

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Posted Friday, February 7, 2014 @ 02:12 PM  

What a nice little clip Donald, and I'm delighted to hear that you will be re-locating to this airstrip.

With Britain's mindless adherence to bureaucracy, it's the only way to go.

I'm so sad we had to leave our airstrip after 28 years, and I don't think I have the energy any more to set up a new one, but I shall be keeping my eyes open for another one somewhere not too far away.
Dunsfold has far too many limitations (like Inverness, but different).

I wish you good luck with erecting your hangar, and many happy years of flying from Easter.

Do keep us informed of progress.

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Posted Monday, April 7, 2014 @ 00:51 AM  

My hangar is under construction and should be finished in a day or two. I'll need to do a little tidying up around the base slab at the front then I should be good to go.

Bob, your remarks about mindless bureaucracy also, I find, apply to local building control. Jeez, the hoops these guys try to make you jump through you'd think I was puting up a concert venue. It's a tick-sheet culture. There's a list of questions or requirements with a tick box after each. "Has the requirement been met or otherwise satisfied?" Tick if yes. No thought involved. I could rant on but it'd do my blood pressure no good at all.

I should be able to post a picture soon.

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Posted Monday, April 7, 2014 @ 04:22 PM  

Hi Donald,
how exciting your RF 3 will be getting a new home! As for the trials of mindless bureaucracy in building control etc I think you need to concider Parkinsons law:

(1) "An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals" and
(2) "Officials make work for each other."

Parkinson notes in particular that the total of those employed inside a bureaucracy rose by 5–7% per year "irrespective of any variation in the amount of work (if any) to be done".

DO post pictures, will you?

May the 4's be with you/ Jörgen

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