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Post by glideboy on Oct 26, 2009 21:01:52 GMT 12
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Post by flyjoe180 on Oct 27, 2009 10:24:27 GMT 12
Really good photos, and nice to see gliders in action again.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 28, 2009 0:59:12 GMT 12
Spectacular photos Paul. Thanks for sharing them, and it's great to see you're still around. I wondered a while back if you still pop into the forum.
So when you come down in a remote paddock like that, what do you do? Radio for the trailerto be brought by road?
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Post by glideboy on Oct 28, 2009 8:22:44 GMT 12
Spectacular photos Paul. Thanks for sharing them, and it's great to see you're still around. I wondered a while back if you still pop into the forum. So when you come down in a remote paddock like that, what do you do? Radio for the trailerto be brought by road? Hi Dave, yes I still pop in for a look from time to time. The DVD sales picked up after the review in Classic Wings, so I have directed each contact to the forum. I notice that the number of views on Barrie's thread continues to slowly increase. Went to the airshow at Omaka, but only heard that you were there afterwards. (From Geoff Soper) Yes we had to organise a road retrieve as the paddock had just been cultivated and sown in grass. It would have been too soft for an aerotow. Contact was relayed back to base via other gliders in the air. (also no cellphone coverage) The task was set by Terry Delore and was Bealey, Mt White Station, Castle Hill Village, Flock Hill, Esk Head, Craigieburn Ramp, Flock Hill. So we didn't get very far!! Some pilots did it twice. The farmer (Richard) was really friendly and helped with the de-rigging of the gliders. He has an Auster parked in his hangar. I can definitely recommend a visit (perhaps in a couple of months when the grass is more established). |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 28, 2009 20:02:30 GMT 12
Great to hear the DVD continues to get buyers. It's such an amazingly good treasure trove of history, we're so privileged that you and your family kindly shared it.
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Post by sqwark2k on Oct 28, 2009 21:53:21 GMT 12
How convenient your land out paddock had a windsock?  I hope it's not the field next to the flock hill strip  Does the farmer fly the Auster off the same paddock or does he have a strip of some sort? Seems we have met recently at CGC glideboy.... I'll be formally joining the club in november. Cheers S2K |
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Post by sqwark2k on Oct 28, 2009 21:58:43 GMT 12
Can you provide a google earth Lat/Long for Flock Hill?
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Post by glideboy on Oct 29, 2009 7:32:05 GMT 12
How convenient your land out paddock had a windsock? I hope it's not the field next to the flock hill strip Does the farmer fly the Auster off the same paddock or does he have a strip of some sort? Seems we have met recently at CGC glideboy.... I'll be formally joining the club in november. S2K Hey Sqwark Good to hear you are joining up, it's been a pleasure flying with your ATC personnel. The farmer flies from another paddock, apparently just behind the trees in the photo. He just keeps our landing strip for visitors. It was perfectly orientated for wind and slope on the day, I just didn't realise that it was cultivated until I was on finals. Just to prove to the doubters, here is the GPS trace of the flight. Although it doesn't look far from Flock Hill, the drive was over an hour. The long & lat for Flock Hill is displayed in the grey bar at the bottom right of the image.  Here is a video of a landing at Flock Hill, taken last year. Not one of my best touch downs, but the paddock is quite undulating. On the whole it is a tricky place to land, with all the optical illusions created by the rising ground, turbulence in a westerly, and no horizon on the round out. |
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Post by sqwark2k on Oct 31, 2009 0:34:54 GMT 12
Ah! Apologies Paul, I initially thought you were the chap in the front seat of your instructional flight photo's above, whom I did have a conversation with last time I was there. Tried your Lat/Long's in google earth and it placed it improbably on the side of a tall shingle covered mountain.... Do you know the name of that lake depicted in the GPS picture above? And is that the Waimak river depicted also?
Cheers
S2K
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Post by glideboy on Oct 31, 2009 7:01:27 GMT 12
Do you know the name of that lake depicted in the GPS picture above? And is that the Waimak river depicted also? Cheers S2K Lake Pearson. Yes that is the Waimak. |
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Post by sqwark2k on Oct 31, 2009 9:28:01 GMT 12
Thanks Paul, finally found it. I thought Rangi said is was only 15km from Horo, not 50! hence my struggle to locate it. Cheers.
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Post by matariki on Oct 31, 2009 11:07:30 GMT 12
Awesome photos, especially the second one down!
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Post by corsair67 on Nov 1, 2009 20:51:37 GMT 12
Wonderful shots of some wonderful countryside. Thanks for sharing.  How did you get the second, fourth and sixth shots? |
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Post by glideboy on Nov 1, 2009 22:12:29 GMT 12
Wonderful shots of some wonderful countryside. Thanks for sharing. How did you get the second, fourth and sixth shots? Hi Cosair, if you look at shot one, there is a small slide window on Scott's left. This is just big enought to get a hand through holding a small camera. |
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Post by corsair67 on Nov 2, 2009 13:16:16 GMT 12
I thought that might be the case, but I was hoping you were going to say there's a lipstick camera installed in the leading edge of the wing. |
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Post by glideboy on Nov 2, 2009 18:14:14 GMT 12
I thought that might be the case, but I was hoping you were going to say there's a lipstick camera installed in the leading edge of the wing. Funny you mention that Corsair, one of our club members brought out a small movie camera, slightly bigger than a lipstick. Battery life is apparently 5 hours, and the data is saved on an SD card. We tapped that to the horizontal stabiliser so will be interesting to view the film. Evidently it cost $50!!! |
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I hope it's not the field next to the flock hill strip 
