Greased Landing at Sunset, Richard Lloyd Jones Airport (KRVS), Tulsa, OK скачать в хорошем качестве

Greased Landing at Sunset, Richard Lloyd Jones Airport (KRVS), Tulsa, OK

I filmed this video back in November 2009 but thought I would post it as well on my YouTube Flying Channel as well. I took my camera up with me today in a Cessna 172P to shoot a few flying videos and traffic pattern work at Richard Lloyd Jones Airport (Riverside - KRVS) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The weather out here in Tulsa has been unusually warm for November sunny and clear with temps in the 80s but really windy and gusty so its a good time to work on my landings. I took the airplane up this evening for a little under a half hour enough to do two laps around the traffic pattern and get back to the parking apron. The video begins with me halfway on the downwind leg of the RH traffic pattern for Runway 19R. You can see the airport off the starboard wing as well as ORUs City of Faith Tower across the Arkansas River from the field. Downtown Tulsa can be seen off of the planes nose on the downwind leg of the pattern. This was my first landing of the day. The touch and go turned out to be one of the best landings that I have done in my career as a pilot. It was one of those landings where, aside from the squeal of the tires on runway, there was no other physical feeling of touchdown. This is sometimes referred to by pilots as greasing a landing. I landed a little long, but 5,500 feet of runway at KRVS gives a Skyhawk driver plenty of space to set down and take off again in and still clear the trees at the golf course south of the airfield. The touchdown just barely shows up in the video between the whine of the stall warning horn and me saying SMOOTH LANDING! in self satisfaction. What can I say? I was proud of my handiwork! Some parts of the base leg went blurry. In hindsight, I should have set the focus on the camera to infinity prior to filming. The autofocus kept zooming in on the smashed bugs on the windshield or the instrument lighting wire for the magnetic compass on the top of the instrument panel. The camera also drifted a little during use, due to the vibration of the engine, so next time Im going to use a secure mount for the camera when I shoot videos from the cockpit. All in all, it was a great little video of what was a textbook touch and go landing.