RV-7 N65NX FLIGHT TO CASEY, IL - MARCH 2019 скачать в хорошем качестве

RV-7 N65NX FLIGHT TO CASEY, IL - MARCH 2019

My first cross country trip in the RV-7 since completing the Phase-1 40 hour testing per the FAA requirement. The airplane is now in Phase-2 (permanent testing - it is an "Experimental" aircraft). Fittingly the flight was to the small farm town my parents grew up in and many of my relatives still reside. A crappy winter in Ohio and horrible March weather have slowed my progress. Nonetheless, this flight affirms to me that all the hard effort and thousands of hours building the plane was worth it. For anyone wishing they could soar with the hawks (or avoid running into them like on this trip), it is possible. But you pretty much have to put your soul into the effort, foregoing many other things in life that you might like to do as well. And of course there is a large amount of money involved. If you do make the sacrifice, you will be among the relatively few who can pull the plane you built out of your hangar on a nice summer day, and go fly to some place that takes 3X hours to drive to. This is what I have attempted to show in the video. What is not shown on the video is the flocks of geese and other birds I passed over parts of Indiana. Or the Boeing 767 Fedex flight passing 2,000' directly overhead. Checking my Dynon's moving map often for other aircraft appearing via ADS-B keeps it all interesting. The GoPro camera for my first flight was mounted too low to see the terrain very well. This tail mounting provides an awesome view. I might try to adapt a gyro-stabilizer to the 3D printed camera mount I designed for the tail. When I was preparing for my first flight, I viewed several videos of other RV-7 first flights. In particular I watched for control inputs during takeoff rotation, landing flare and so forth. This video shows pretty well the light inputs needed for this plane, it is extremely well balanced and responsive, but not twitchy. I hope that the video might be helpful for others preparing for their first flights. And to those keeping the dream alive.