Airmail Pioneers Video

[EHM-1703 Philip]

Hi all,

As promised, I did some video shooting on Yesterdays flight from KUNV to KBKL. I used Active Sky for this flight and I soon wished I hadn't! It was some of the worse weather I have ever flown in. Heavy Thunderstorms at KUNV and a strong gusting headwind made for a very ugly takeoff. I then spent the next 20 minutes fighting turbulence all the way up to 9,000 feet. I managed to find some clear air up there and I put myself on a heading towards Cleveland as there was no way I could follow the VFR instructions. Coming down was almost as much fun and the landing was a little fast and a little left, but not bad considering.

Click on the picture below to stream the video, sorry, it's 15mb and I know this video host can be slow at times. Let me know if it's too slow and I will try and find somewhere else.

[EHM-1798 Conrad]

hey thats a nice video, you had some of the lovely weather i had

[EHM-0654 Murray]

Great video Phil, but by Bob did you have problems getting her off the ground (forward column pressure at 40kts to raise the tail, VR at 85kts... ); it makes me so glad I flew that leg first thing yesterday morning when the only METAR issues I had was a bit of rain at KUNV, a strong headwind during cruise, and an 11kt crosswind from the lake at landing...

[EHM-1703 Philip]

heheh, yeah, I was too busy shooting the video to notice that I had wind gusts of 35kn coming straight at me, I guess thats what caused the plane to lift off a lot earlier than anticipated!

[EHM-0361 Karsten]

Well I guess, it a good thing that you wasn't carrying passengers. I would think they would have been real scared.
But it's a great video