Re: [Aus-soaring] California Ridge run

[Mark Newton]

On Jul 14, 2016, at 9:05 AM, Peter Armstrong  
wrote:
> Sure, the pilot has a lot of kinetic energy up his sleeve, but I can’t say 
> I’d be happy with the level of risk, especially with a pax along for the 
> ride. It wouldn’t have taken much for things to go pear shaped. 

It looked like a totally stock-standard ridge run on a strongly performing 
ridge. Has probably been done millions of times around the world over the 
years, very little risk if you’re familiar with how ridges work.

Regarding your question earlier about max rough air: If the air was rough, the 
camera (and, no doubt, everything else) would be shaking a lot more than it was 
in the video. Looked like a pretty smooth ridge in most places, the wind over 
it was probably pretty laminar.

The video looked brilliant. Made me pine for the good ridge days at Lochiel. 
Spending half a day hooning around the ridge in a Pik20d at 120 knots, chasing 
sheep down gullies, big procedure-turn pullups at each end of the ridge. Stacks 
of fun, if you haven’t tried it you’re really missing out.

   - mark


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Re: [Aus-soaring] California Ridge run

[Peter Armstrong]

I’ve only ever flown ridge once, along the Flinders Ranges and it was an 
amazing experience for a student. Especially when every other flight up till 
then was <12 minutes, scratching around for lift. 

Sure, the pilot has a lot of kinetic energy up his sleeve, but I can’t say I’d 
be happy with the level of risk, especially with a pax along for the ride. It 
wouldn’t have taken much for things to go pear shaped. 

Unrelated, what are the gliding options in Tasmania ? I have to lose 25kg to 
fit back in a cockpit, but I’d like to get back into flying after a 20 year 
pause. 

Pete


> On 13 Jul 2016, at 1:17 PM, steph...@internode.on.net wrote:
> 
> Depends,
> 
> the first Twin Astir was 108 and the Twin II was 92 (I seem to recall). 
> However the Single Astir was 135 and I think that the aircraft in the film 
> is, in fact, a single.  
> 
> 
> 
> Which does beg the question, why would a person fly a ridge while hand 
> holding a camera
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> SWK
> 
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> I don’t remember the max rough air speed on a G103. Somewhere in the 90’s ? 
> 
> 
> On 13 Jul 2016, at 9:07 AM, Nelson Handcock  <mailto:nelson.handc...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> Pretty exhilarating! An old video from 2008, so some may have seen this 
> before.
> 
> 
> https://vimeo.com/1349369 <https://vimeo.com/1349369>
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Re: [Aus-soaring] California Ridge run

[Nelson Handcock]

Reading through all the comments on vimeo, the author mentions that he's
flying a G103, and you can hear conversation under the music in a couple of
places so I think the video is being recorded by a front-seat passenger.



On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:17 PM,  wrote:

> Depends,
>
> the first Twin Astir was 108 and the Twin II was 92 (I seem to recall).
> However the Single Astir was 135 and I think that the aircraft in the film
> is, in fact, a single.
>
>
> Which does beg the question, why would a person fly a ridge while hand
> holding a camera
>
>
> Regards
>
> SWK
>
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>
> I don’t remember the max rough air speed on a G103. Somewhere in the 90’s
> ?
>
>
> On 13 Jul 2016, at 9:07 AM, Nelson Handcock 
> wrote:
>
> Pretty exhilarating! An old video from 2008, so some may have seen this
> before.
>
>
> https://vimeo.com/1349369
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Re: [Aus-soaring] California Ridge run

[Justin Couch]

On 13/07/2016 1:17 PM, steph...@internode.on.net wrote:

Which does beg the question, why would a person fly a ridge while
hand holding a camera



It feels more like it is attached to a shoulder or parachute harness. 
Definitely not on a hat or similar as you don't see any sideways 
glancing. I would expect a lot more movement from a camera held in the 
hand on that sort of run, particularly a few of the higher-G turns he does.



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Re: [Aus-soaring] California Ridge run

[stephenk]

Depends, 

the first Twin Astir was 108 and the Twin II was 92 (I seem to
recall). However the Single Astir was 135 and I think that the
aircraft in the film is, in fact, a single.  

Which does beg the question, why would a person fly a ridge while
hand holding a camera

Regards

SWK

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 I don’t remember the max rough air speed on a G103. Somewhere in
the 90’s ? 

 On 13 Jul 2016, at 9:07 AM, Nelson Handcock  wrote: 
 Pretty exhilarating! An old video from 2008, so some may have seen
this before.

https://vimeo.com/1349369 [2]

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Re: [Aus-soaring] California Ridge run

[Peter Armstrong]

I don’t remember the max rough air speed on a G103. Somewhere in the 90’s ? 


> On 13 Jul 2016, at 9:07 AM, Nelson Handcock  wrote:
> 
> Pretty exhilarating! An old video from 2008, so some may have seen this 
> before.
> 
> 
> https://vimeo.com/1349369 
> 
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[Aus-soaring] California Ridge run

[Nelson Handcock]

Pretty exhilarating! An old video from 2008, so some may have seen this
before.


https://vimeo.com/1349369
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