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#4518085 - 04/25/20 04:26 PM Now This is Flying!  
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"If you can't smell the flowers you're flying too high"


https://youtu.be/jPxLRCJqRLE


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#4518117 - 04/25/20 07:40 PM Re: Now This is Flying! [Re: F4UDash4]  
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#4518123 - 04/25/20 07:57 PM Re: Now This is Flying! [Re: F4UDash4]  
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4:30
"I like to show people the wild animal tracks in the sand."
4:35
flies over tire tracks in sand

Things you don't like to hear from your pilot in mid-flight:
I was flying around and had to borrow a gallon of gas from some paragliders.

But definitely a cool video. Fast is good when you have somewhere to go. But low-and-slow is fun flying.


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#4518132 - 04/25/20 08:21 PM Re: Now This is Flying! [Re: vonBaur]  
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Originally Posted by vonBaur
4:30
"I like to show people the wild animal tracks in the sand."


Well blame that on the camera resolution. I knew when he said it that viewers of the video weren't going to be able to see animal tracks that his eyes could see.


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#4518140 - 04/25/20 08:42 PM Re: Now This is Flying! [Re: F4UDash4]  
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Looks like a lot of fun, but I'm reminded of what an old pilot told me once (he was talking about helicopters): all they are is a collection of parts loosely flying in formation. biggrin


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#4518187 - 04/26/20 02:48 AM Re: Now This is Flying! [Re: F4UDash4]  
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Awesome, although I think that thing would scare me bad over 100 feet up...

I have a terrible fear of heights. But somehow I'm fine with things like airplanes, rollercoasters, etc...

Even more paradoxically I think I'd be fine with skydiving...

But put me on a house roof having to go down on a ladder (I have zero problem with the climb UP) and I start having issues...

Weird how the brain works...

#4518192 - 04/26/20 03:16 AM Re: Now This is Flying! [Re: Zamzow]  
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Originally Posted by Zamzow
Weird how the brain works...


Yes indeed.

My first experience with Oculus Rift VR headset about 3 years ago was an in store demo of their rock climbing program. You're on the side of a mountain hundreds of feet up and it just had my heart pounding and palms sweating.

About 2 years ago I bought my own Oculus Rift and I mostly fly flight sims in it. Never a hint of any acrophobia etc., just a touch of vertigo the first 2-3 times I flew with it, while maneuvering hard.

Then this morning I am flying the DCS UH-1 around Dubai. I fly over to the base of the 2700 foot high Burj Khalifa, come to a hover and pull up on the collective. I climb up and up the side of this enormously tall building , and about half way up I start to "pucker" (you know what I mean) and my heart starts beating faster and I get nervous and shaky, I push hard right rudder and turn away from the building and separate from it about 500 feet short of the top and the feeling goes away.... I literally have hundreds of hours, probably a thousand or more, of VR flying time and I've never felt this before. But it's something to do with being so near an object that reaches from the ground up to a height like that. I had a similar "eerie" feeling (but not anywhere near as intense) when piloting a real aircraft (a Cessna 150) in a ~270 degree turn around a 2000 ft high radio tower, at about the 2000 ft level.

Weird indeed.


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#4518193 - 04/26/20 04:10 AM Re: Now This is Flying! [Re: F4UDash4]  
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@F4UDash4 - sorry if this is a thread hijacking, but on heights...

I once went to a beach with a friend, and it was a pretty gnarly cliff hike down. Usually it's going down that locks me up...

Somehow that wasn't a problem that day, but going back UP, I just locked up.

I was only maybe 70 feet up... (on maybe a 100 or 120 foot climb)

And I was like 24 years old. I just completely locked up. I had to tell my friend "Um, I have a problem". "What?". "Um, I'm scared and I can't move"...

He had to help me. He did. We were really "competitive".

But I just locked up so hard on that cliff (I should say, this was NOTHING like rock climbing, but far more hardcore than hiking any "trail")....


#4518194 - 04/26/20 04:30 AM Re: Now This is Flying! [Re: F4UDash4]  
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But going back to the video and aircraft - wow, I'd never seen this, anyone here ever FLOWN one of these things?

Seems it can't hover, needs that rear propeller, what a trippy way to fly!

I want one!

#4518200 - 04/26/20 05:59 AM Re: Now This is Flying! [Re: F4UDash4]  
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#4518201 - 04/26/20 06:28 AM Re: Now This is Flying! [Re: F4UDash4]  
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I never been in a helicopter. Would heart to get in one flying around.


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#4518205 - 04/26/20 08:40 AM Re: Now This is Flying! [Re: Zamzow]  
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[quote=Zamzow
Even more paradoxically I think I'd be fine with skydiving...
[/quote]

Brings a memory of my first residential recreational jump course in 1978.
Chap asked if he could swop his allocated top of three tier bunk as he couldn't stand heights. Which I thought was odd considering what we were about to do the following day!
He went on to be a Jump Master I was informed.




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