Wayne! I hope you didn't mind the mention. You gave me the kick in the butt to get back to editing! Where might this shed with a RV9A be located? Maybe we can drop in on you and help with some motivation on it!
Wade, once again you've done a great job! Having just gotten back from Alaska in my RV I dare say that no one has the same trip twice and everyone does it a different way each time they go! I'm looking forward to heading up there again soon! Keep the videos coming!
John, I've got a mount that I made for Russki's plane that goes in the tail tie down hole that lets me film straight forward, rearward, or 45 degrees to either side. Two GoPros , audio recording cable, and remote control for cameras that controls all of them at once. You know anyone with a GoPro or two we could borrow? I'd LOVE to do some midair or formation type filming. Wheels are already spinning in my head with ideas.
I know you do not want to fly this way but Just to plan a seed.... ON THE ROAD AGAIN IFR --I FOLLOW ROADS by Dr. Cyrus Thomas Imagine being able to say that for the rest of your private flying career, "should my engine ever fail I have a road beneath me". No more wondering if you're poised for a ditching into a lake or the ocean, no more looking for clearings in forested areas, and no more hunting for flat spots in hilly and mountainous regions. Pilots assuage themselves that they are safe because they are always looking for possible landing sites, but they can't resist the temptation to fly in a straight line to their destination...after all that's what planes are for, crow-flying to save gas and time, getting every ounce of utility from the machine as you can. And ignoring safety a little bit? Some pilots follow roads some of the time. They might state that if their engine quits they have a 60% chance of being over a road. Watching aviation videos, I always know when the pilot is not over a road as their right hand nervously alternates touching the throttle and mixture knobs. I propose that with self-discipline the percentage of time we are over roads can be 100%. It's not that difficult. All farmland is interspersed with service roads...so you can relax over farmland...but you might prefer to land on a service road between the farmland itself instead of finding out at 1/8th of a mile before the fence that you've just set up to land in a wine vineyard! Ouch! All mountain passes have roads for cars, large lakes are mostly surrounded by roads, freeways connect all major cities and rural deserted areas are usually traversed by BLM service roads. But get-there-itis is a powerful force. Let me ask, why save time if you love flying? You will only get there sooner and terminate the flight early, robbing yourself of the joy of flight. Flight paths following roads are likely 15% longer than how the crow flies...so a 200$ flight now costs 230$...is it worth the peace of mind? I’ve been flying this way for years and for me it is worth it. I used to fly a Lake amphibian and I always followed rivers (IFR) affording me safe emergency water landing opportunities. Now I'm in an RV12. My wife gives me her full endorsement for the "I follow roads" type of flying. Is there any wonder? If you're receiving flight-following, your air traffic controller probably does not have highways on his radar screen, so unless he lives in the area, then when you tell him or her that you are following the 580 south, they may come back with simply, "stay clear of class Charley and Bravo airspaces" because they may have no idea where the 580 is! It would be better to say, "direct KDVO, direct KCCR, direct KLVK" or rather, "we're flying direct Gnoss Field, to Buccanan, then Livermore". Safe pilots carry Personal Locator Beacons should they crash land in the boonies, be they wooded or desert. They file flight plans so someone will find them. I've read that 40% of the time, for various reasons, ELTs do not go off when they should. Flight Following is a great idea, even when flying the I-land-on-roads method but communication will likely be lost while descending. However, ATC will have a general idea of your location should you be heading downward. I do not own a PLB (Personal Locator Beacon). In an emergency, even if only over a rural road, as I am descending and attempting a restart, I'll tell Flight Following where I am, squawk 7700, activate the ELT and land on a road. Filing a flight plan with Flight Service in order that ATC knows where you are becomes necessary if Flight Following is not available. On my tablet's Personal Flight Planning app, using sectionals, I plan flights from airports to lat/long waypoints, to airports, to lat/long waypoints again, etc... Every line of the flight plan is over a highway or road. Sometimes I have to refer to a road map app. I then can usually find the same roads on the sectional. I save the flight route on-line and then, in flight I use my cellphone mounted to the left window to follow my flight path on the same app, availing the other glass panels for portraying terrain, traffic, weather, direct navigation, closest airports etc. Having the cellphone close to me, portraying my route, is nice because I am often enlarging the map to see smaller roads. I remember the day when I first realized that, should I ever have an off-runway landing, I could be 100% sure there will be on a road beneath me...because I promised myself there would always be one within reach. It was so comforting...it changed my whole reaction to the dangers involved. I've experienced two complete engine failures and fortunately each time landed at an airport. Consequently, I have low faith in engines conceptualized in 1935 and hardly improved since. So, I will now only fly a modern liquid cooled, low CHT engine with a light weight propeller, but that's the subject of a different safety article. Some sight-seeing is compromised by this method of flying, but not all is lost. Flying around mountain tops in the Cascades, for example, is still possible. Even though you might not be directly over a road as you are sight-seeing the mountain tops, know that you just need to be able to glide to a road...but with the IFRoads method you always know where the roads are (due to pre-flight preparation) and your map confirms it. Face it, at least out west, much of our country is barren. Even an off-road landing you can walk away from can put you so far from civilization that you could perish attempting to find help. I almost did die once. After a successful off-road landing in the desert sand I walked for six hours to the remote airport I was flying to, with little water. I had to guess where the airport was. Wished I had followed a road. Show more
LoL, that is amazing footage Wade...Makes me want to go pound rivets in my shed where my RV-9A is patiently waiting for me to resume work...
Wayne! I hope you didn't mind the mention. You gave me the kick in the butt to get back to editing! Where might this shed with a RV9A be located? Maybe we can drop in on you and help with some motivation on it!
Wade, once again you've done a great job! Having just gotten back from Alaska in my RV I dare say that no one has the same trip twice and everyone does it a different way each time they go! I'm looking forward to heading up there again soon! Keep the videos coming!
Thanks CJ! We gotta figure out a way to meet up someday. Next film challenge is multiple aircraft. 🤓
Wade Nulton cool! Sounds great! We can outfit my airplane with some cameras also and do another video if you like!
John, I've got a mount that I made for Russki's plane that goes in the tail tie down hole that lets me film straight forward, rearward, or 45 degrees to either side. Two GoPros , audio recording cable, and remote control for cameras that controls all of them at once. You know anyone with a GoPro or two we could borrow? I'd LOVE to do some midair or formation type filming. Wheels are already spinning in my head with ideas.
Wade Nulton , I don't have any GoPro cameras but I'd be willing to do some formation flying.
Great! Let's make a plan.
Very Nice Wade ! Love your videos bro , I just came back from a lengthy trip with Vlad AKA Sibirsky , we went to Oregon and back , 5 days , 40 hours
Aha! Now I know who he disappeared with! I'm jealous of that dry lake!
YES!
Thank you!
I know you do not want to fly this way but Just to plan a seed....
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
IFR --I FOLLOW ROADS by Dr. Cyrus Thomas
Imagine being able to say that for the rest of your private flying career, "should my engine ever fail I have a road beneath me". No more wondering if you're poised for a ditching into a lake or the ocean, no more looking for clearings in forested areas, and no more hunting for flat spots in hilly and mountainous regions.
Pilots assuage themselves that they are safe because they are always looking for possible landing sites, but they can't resist the temptation to fly in a straight line to their destination...after all that's what planes are for, crow-flying to save gas and time, getting every ounce of utility from the machine as you can. And ignoring safety a little bit?
Some pilots follow roads some of the time. They might state that if their engine quits they have a 60% chance of being over a road. Watching aviation videos, I always know when the pilot is not over a road as their right hand nervously alternates touching the throttle and mixture knobs. I propose that with self-discipline the percentage of time we are over roads can be 100%.
It's not that difficult. All farmland is interspersed with service roads...so you can relax over farmland...but you might prefer to land on a service road between the farmland itself instead of finding out at 1/8th of a mile before the fence that you've just set up to land in a wine vineyard! Ouch! All mountain passes have roads for cars, large lakes are mostly surrounded by roads, freeways connect all major cities and rural deserted areas are usually traversed by BLM service roads.
But get-there-itis is a powerful force. Let me ask, why save time if you love flying? You will only get there sooner and terminate the flight early, robbing yourself of the joy of flight. Flight paths following roads are likely 15% longer than how the crow flies...so a 200$ flight now costs 230$...is it worth the peace of mind? I’ve been flying this way for years and for me it is worth it. I used to fly a Lake amphibian and I always followed rivers (IFR) affording me safe emergency water landing opportunities. Now I'm in an RV12. My wife gives me her full endorsement for the "I follow roads" type of flying. Is there any wonder?
If you're receiving flight-following, your air traffic controller probably does not have highways on his radar screen, so unless he lives in the area, then when you tell him or her that you are following the 580 south, they may come back with simply, "stay clear of class Charley and Bravo airspaces" because they may have no idea where the 580 is! It would be better to say, "direct KDVO, direct KCCR, direct KLVK" or rather, "we're flying direct Gnoss Field, to Buccanan, then Livermore".
Safe pilots carry Personal Locator Beacons should they crash land in the boonies, be they wooded or desert. They file flight plans so someone will find them. I've read that 40% of the time, for various reasons, ELTs do not go off when they should. Flight Following is a great idea, even when flying the I-land-on-roads method but communication will likely be lost while descending. However, ATC will have a general idea of your location should you be heading downward. I do not own a PLB (Personal Locator Beacon). In an emergency, even if only over a rural road, as I am descending and attempting a restart, I'll tell Flight Following where I am, squawk 7700, activate the ELT and land on a road. Filing a flight plan with Flight Service in order that ATC knows where you are becomes necessary if Flight Following is not available.
On my tablet's Personal Flight Planning app, using sectionals, I plan flights from airports to lat/long waypoints, to airports, to lat/long waypoints again, etc... Every line of the flight plan is over a highway or road. Sometimes I have to refer to a road map app. I then can usually find the same roads on the sectional. I save the flight route on-line and then, in flight I use my cellphone mounted to the left window to follow my flight path on the same app, availing the other glass panels for portraying terrain, traffic, weather, direct navigation, closest airports etc. Having the cellphone close to me, portraying my route, is nice because I am often enlarging the map to see smaller roads.
I remember the day when I first realized that, should I ever have an off-runway landing, I could be 100% sure there will be on a road beneath me...because I promised myself there would always be one within reach. It was so comforting...it changed my whole reaction to the dangers involved. I've experienced two complete engine failures and fortunately each time landed at an airport. Consequently, I have low faith in engines conceptualized in 1935 and hardly improved since. So, I will now only fly a modern liquid cooled, low CHT engine with a light weight propeller, but that's the subject of a different safety article.
Some sight-seeing is compromised by this method of flying, but not all is lost. Flying around mountain tops in the Cascades, for example, is still possible. Even though you might not be directly over a road as you are sight-seeing the mountain tops, know that you just need to be able to glide to a road...but with the IFRoads method you always know where the roads are (due to pre-flight preparation) and your map confirms it.
Face it, at least out west, much of our country is barren. Even an off-road landing you can walk away from can put you so far from civilization that you could perish attempting to find help. I almost did die once. After a successful off-road landing in the desert sand I walked for six hours to the remote airport I was flying to, with little water. I had to guess where the airport was. Wished I had followed a road.
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That’s one heck of a comment!