winsor68 Posted July 19, 2010 Posted July 19, 2010 On Sunday the 18th the Palmyra flying school took a ferry flight in a Cessna 210 to Clermont to spend the day training in a Texan Lsa... Here are some photos taken on my new HTC desire phone.
winsor68 Posted July 19, 2010 Author Posted July 19, 2010 Hi Blackrod. Yes the HTC Desire is a great gadget... so much more than a phone...in fact if you just want a phone don't get one of these because its usefulness as one is waaaaay down the list of what it does. I found an app for it last night that turns it into an EPIRB!!! The Texan... well what can I say. Compared to the Jabiru170 it is a whole new experience. The extra 20hp makes a huge difference. I was seeing 800-1000fpm indicated climb at 70knots. She is RH stick/LH throttle and surprisingly didn't even notice this when flying. Stick forces are light at all times unlike the J170 which due to the enormous wing seems to take the strength of Goliath in certain fazes of flight. The view out of that bubble canopy is amazing. It generally has a much more controllable feel than the J170. Approach is much more comfortable at 60 knots. I guess for an extra $70 grand this is what you get... a lot more aeroplane in my opinion. I would like to fly a J120/160 (I think the enormous wing on the J170 combined with low power make it a bit of a dog) but not at all keen to get back into a J170 again. I felt I got more out of the 2 hours in the Texan than I got from the previous 12 hours I spent in the 170... Winsor68
dazza 38 Posted July 20, 2010 Posted July 20, 2010 Nice photo's Winsor, i see there is a couple of thrusters in the hangar, do they fly much, the one suspended, not the one with the wings off lol Sorry for my ignorance but what sort of phone is a HTC?
winsor68 Posted July 20, 2010 Author Posted July 20, 2010 Dazza, The Thrusters are flown... the one in the rafters is the school owners aircraft and is in the rafters at the moment to make a bit of room. The other belongs to a local student and should be back in the air soon, again in storage because of room with the wings off. I am told at least one of them will be available on hire from the school very shortly for endorsements and general flying. Dazza, The HTC is the Iphone Style mobile phone for Telstra customers... actually a higher spec. phone than the current Iphone model... does everything and more the Iphone does. I am actually able to send videos/photos direct from my HTC Desire to Youtube/Facebook/Twitter etc (hey Ian how about an app to send photos/video directly to this sight from the new gen phones?). The only problem with sending video directly to youtube from the Desire is that it goes raw with no editing and I wanted to tidy them up a bit but was unable so far to import them into Windows Movie Maker to do this. I am going to try to send some video directly to Youtube (using my home Wifi rather than the phones direct link) so will update that as soon as I can.
dazza 38 Posted July 20, 2010 Posted July 20, 2010 Dazza,The Thrusters are flown... the one in the rafters is the school owners aircraft and is in the rafters at the moment to make a bit of room. The other belongs to a local student and should be back in the air soon, again in storage because of room with the wings off. I am told at least one of them will be available on hire from the school very shortly for endorsements and general flying. Dazza, The HTC is the Iphone Style mobile phone for Telstra customers... actually a higher spec. phone than the current Iphone model... does everything and more the Iphone does. I am actually able to send videos/photos direct from my HTC Desire to Youtube/Facebook/Twitter etc (hey Ian how about an app to send photos/video directly to this sight from the new gen phones?). The only problem with sending video directly to youtube from the Desire is that it goes raw with no editing and I wanted to tidy them up a bit but was unable so far to import them into Windows Movie Maker to do this. I am going to try to send some video directly to Youtube (using my home Wifi rather than the phones direct link) so will update that as soon as I can. Thanks mate, im not full bottle on the lastest phones and Gadgets, i have a Nokia something, i can take photo's, use the calculator, etc. I get abit lost with the advanced stuff. LOL My stepson has a Iphone, he is always doing things with it.
winsor68 Posted July 20, 2010 Author Posted July 20, 2010 There you go Blackrod... changed the video link to one from Youtube. Sorry it is a bit of a boring video but... I like it... lol I was too busy flying to get any video footage of the Texan in action so this is just the C210 landing on the dragstrip at Palmyra.
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