crayonboxAirborne XT912 Cruze and Streak III, Outback 582 Streak IIb
Dual 110+ Solo 150+ (as of 1-Sept-2013)
Hervey Bay YHBA, Maryborough YMYB, Pacific Haven YPAC, Childers YCDS, Tewnatin Noosa YNSH, Caloundra YCDR, Tangalooma YTGA, Watts Bridge YWSG, Biggenden YBIN, Caboolture YCAB, Gympie YGYM, Orchid Beach YOKB, Bundaberg YBUD, Gayndah YGAY, Monto YMTO, Kingaroy YKRY
Private: Nikenbah, Wanggoolba, Miramar(Takura), Lake Barambah, Susan River, The Dimonds (Bill Price)
Here is SkyVector showing some flying I have completed as of and including CrossCountry NAVs endorsement in March 2014.
Comments
I guess he really has no need for that brs also
I thought at first it was going to be a video about turbulence throwing him around at low level ...
Those crops are not likely as soft as they look, especially if they can reach up to the control bar ...
Neat!
Depends on your viewpoint Sally. It's designed to impress. Like, "Hey watch this, betcha can't do better than this."
Extreme caution should be used, and like this pilot, no un-fully advised / warned passenger.
Two long time sayings should always be in your mind: You can only TIE the record for lowest flight and There are no Old Bold pilots.
Boundary of Behaviors parable
Three people were applying for a position as a school bus driver. The interviewer asked each of them the following question:
"Suppose you are taking a busload full of children on a field trip into the mountains. The road is steep, and the road's edge is very close to the edge of the mountain. How close could you drive to the edge of the road?"
The first applicant answered that he could get within a foot of the edge of the road safely.
The second applicant answered that he could get within 6 inches of the edge of the road and still be safe.
The third applicant answered that he would stay as far away from that edge as possible.
Which applicant do you suppose got the job?
yep! yanking, cranking, and banking! watch that wing-tip! i often fly low, but not leaned over!
I wonder if time was sped up on the video.
Also, the wide angle camera mounted on the wing tip may exaggerate the cranking and banking. Still, it is impressing flying and a bit scary to watch.
I love it. Its great to see someone flying around doing the stuff Trikes were made for. BUT I know that I can do the same type of flying. However I am a CFI and I have to lead by example. I had to stop doing hight performance take-offs because a friend in a Piper Lance tried to do what I was doing, and nearly ended up in a ball on the runway. This was my wake-up call. He told me that he loved the way I fly aircraft of any type around the sky at low level and stay in full control. I fly 900 hours a year and I am still learning. I want to be the old pilot not the bold pilot. My friend died later that year doing another take-off he was capable of doing. It hit you hard when you know that people copy your flying and they do not have the experance to pull it off.
@CBurg, is this a trick question?
(Note: I did not actually say this should not be done, just extreme caution and keep in mind those who have gone before you and those who may be uninformed and the effect of videoing it and that which cannot be predicted and those who remain and your wing tips and what Doug from Boulder Creek and YFT (great wisdom) said and ....)
Man, you get away from this site for a day and there are a million things to catch up on ....
@YFT I voted !!! Also, I think that Admin should add a field to the profile page for type of aircraft flown-- if they'd read their emails ... ;)
I have a trike option in my profile @XCTriker - not sure what's wrong with yours? ;)
No the parable just popped into my head when I read it. No condescension intended.
We all know the reason that most of us fly non-typical aircraft (Gyros, trikes, PPCs, PPGs,) aside from portability and arguably cost…is they are so much fun to cut-up with.
The temptation with these aircraft to push the envelope is almost irresistible…they are simply too much fun.
It’s the chicken or the egg question. Do we fly them because we are crazy or are we crazy because we fly them? Or both? I think both...but mostly the latter.
The following data comes from the UK AAIB
Accident rates per million flight hours - 2000-2009 [number of fatal accidents in brackets] from CAP800 - gyros are way out "in the lead"
1.5 Small Public Transport [1]
1.1 All Heli Public Transport [3]
2.0 Offshore Heli Public Transport [3]
10.6 Small conventional non-Public-Transport [85]
15.9 Small heli non-PublicTransport [25]
17.9 Microlight [20]
23.2 Glider [32]
400 Gyroplane [9]
Cool @Cburg, I was actually thinking of posting this last night (from wikipedia)
Statistics
There are three main statistics which may be used to compare the safety of various forms of travel (note that aviation safety does not include the necessary ground transportation):[better source needed][27]
It is necessary to mention that first two statistics are computed for typical travels for respective forms of transport, so they cannot be used directly to compare risks related to different forms of transport in a particular travel "from A to B". For example: according to statistics, a typical flight from Los Angeles to New York will carry a larger risk factor than a typical car travel from home to office. But a car travel from Los Angeles to New York would not be typical. It would be as large as several dozens of typical car travels, and associated risk will be larger as well. Because the journey would take a much longer time, the overall risk associated by making this journey by car will be higher than making the same journey by air, even if each individual hour of car travel can be less risky than an hour of flight. In the same vein, when considering the "deaths per billion journeys" statistic, it is important to consider that airliners, buses and trains will carry far more passengers than a car, or bicycle for example.
It is therefore important to use each statistic in a proper context. When it comes to a question about risks associated with a particular long-range travel from one city to another, the most suitable statistic is the third one, thus giving a reason to name air travel as the safest form of long-range transportation.
It is worth noting that the air industry's insurers base their calculations on the deaths per journey statistic while the industry itself generally uses the deaths per kilometre statistic in press releases.[28]
It should be noted that the number of fatalities have been in constant decline since the mid-1990s, while the number of passenger flight-hours has kept steadily increasing since the 1950s.
Speaking of “Organ Donors”…that’s what paramedics call them/us. I think the craziest thing I’ve seen was two guys on crotch rockets in Dallas during rush hour…during bumper-to-bumper stop-and-go traffic….both these motorcyclists passed me, one on each side of me, were speeding between lanes “splitting lanes” at least 80mph…doing a wheelie all the way as far as I could see them. They were GOOD but CRAAAAZY! I’d be surprised if they are still among the living….Darwinism and all.
Life is tough, but its even tougher if you’re stupid – John Wayne.
In industries I’ve worked in (Nuclear, Aerospace, Aviation, Petro-Chem, Offshore Drilling) we talk about the “Normalization of Risk”. In short…you get used to it and grow to underestimate the potential of a negative outcome.:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:GaCFRhTWYSUJ:www.researchgate.net/publication/7471825_Risk_perception_and_technological_development_at_a_societal_level/file/d912f506431270e590.pdf+normalization+of+risk&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESg3fxSowus5vMh-wGfzBikXdBIJ37rTSNyOjL8vbwrkd508dYmpUU40PdAJZNfSR6MtGO_bxuZPyo0t6Dcuy58ug769Nk1Wws1hXKiUsep3ZE9_XKeKsmgl7EkpoUqvuAxbDcal&sig=AHIEtbRJAPLEfP_ayu2GtAQfIuMPz8u3jg
Henry - you had to say that and I bet that's what you see in all the videos too. Hard being a perfectionist isn't it - ask me ;-)