Yesterday 21st December, I flew on our Summer Solstice - the longest day of our Southern Hemisphere year. I used the opportunity to fly only by compass and time, after making a flight plan into areas I had never been. It was great fun. Hope you enjoy it too.
A bit of a boring video I know, and yes it is much easier when the landing site is one that is very familiar and available. But still, a good bit of exercise now and then to learn to judge your descent and distance judging skills.
I wondered how much extra drag my round down tubes create versus an airfoil type tube. I grabbed this link from another site (name not mentioned), and I was very surprised to see this professor's test results. Really interesting!
I flew in to the Childers Wings and Wheels Weekend on Sunday, as I did last year. The show is a smaller regional...day. It was right.
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/station.jsp?list=ob<=site&l...
The mesas and cliffs north and east of Hurricane Utah as well as Sand Hollow Reservoir. One of the mesas is named Hurricane Mesa which was used for Cold War tests of rocket ejection seats for supersonic aircraft at the Hurricane Supersonic Research Site.