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466. Test Flight with New Prop. Flying Loops
above North Ridge, Close to Airport. Kamloops, Mar 13, 2024
This was my
first flight with new Warp Drive Prop. I set it to 10 deg pitch, measured on
the prop tip and it was good choice. Checked the carburetors balance and it was
the same to my previous PowerFin prop. Now fiddling around required. I flew
close to airport just in case. It was actually very nice, no surprises flight
with good video capture.
464. Excellent Flight except the Scary Landing. Kamloops North Ridge, Feb 2, 2024
It was
weird day.
The sun
started to peak through around noon. The west half of runway was still totally
fog covered when I started to prepare for flight. It cleared by 1:30 pm, the
time when I took off.
It was very
relaxing and enjoyable flight in crispy clear air, but with many clouds around.
Warm, +6C on the ground and +9C at the top (5500’). Actually, it was too warm,
because I had partially covered the engine radiator for cold flying. The engine
temp reached max, so I had to pull back a bit to keep it from overheating. It
was totally spring like flying.
The fun and
relaxation was dashed just about 50 ft above ground when all hell broke loose.
I felt like garbage bag in the wind. I had to give up in very scary, super
turbulent and gusty conditions. I was glad to make it in one piece. I noticed
the wind sock, while taxing “home”, was moving very erratically and at one
moment it pointed even straight up. It was some experience. 10 min after that
the wind was blowing like mad.
463. My Excellent First Flight of 2024, Kamloops
Jan 21, 2023
I was
rewarded by beautiful and relaxing winter flight after serious snow removal (by hand shovel) from my
access path to runway. There was low ceiling cloud base all around except
462. I had to Shovel all this by Hand before my
Flight, Kamloops Jan 21, 2024
It was
serious exercise to clear all that snow from my hangar up to the taxiway. The
taxiway was closed for me by big snow withdraw from the airport plow. Well many
people pay for the gym membership and I have it free.
I
discovered so many muscles. I didn’t know I have. See the actual flight below
461. South Thompson River Low Water Level. Aerial View from Prichard to Kamloops
Lake, Dec 23, 2023
I flew 48
km (30 mi) east to Pritchard to start the aerial “survey” view of our main
water supply,
460. Waiting for Sunset on Cloudy Day. Kamloops
Dec 20, 2023
I wanted to
capture usually very colorful sky at the sunset. Also, I wanted to do it during
the shortest day. Here I was just one day too early because the weather
forecast for the next day was no good for my flying.
I could see
low level clouds all around except very large hole of blue sky over the Brock
and
459. Exploring North Ridge Area with Beautiful
Clouds Formations, Kamloops Dec
16, 2023
Awesome scenery all around
with still no snow by the airport location, while the terrain all around is
snow covered. One of the best flights with 120 km of pure fun.
458. Above Clouds Flight to Sun Peaks and Harper
Mountain, Kamloops Dec 7, 2023
An
excellent winter, almost no snow, flight to the second largest ski hill in
457. Very Turbulent Flight to Mt Martin &
over South Thompson River, Kamloops Nov 19, 2023
This was
not a relaxing flight, but very challenging and full workout exercise. I was
flying about 100 km (62 mi) in a heavy turbulence with shifting winds in 180
deg direction changes. I wanted to fly to Mt Martin, which is the highest
visible mountain from
This is my best video so far. The weather and
the flying conditions were perfect and the selection of the flight area was
perfect too.
Brock, N
Shore, downtown, Aberdeen, Knutsford, Shumway Lake, Walker Lake, Campbell
Creek, Barnhartvale, Dallas, Harper Ranch, N Ridge, Sun Rivers, Tranquille
River, Tranquille Farm…
455.
Checking 2023 Ross Moore Lake Wildfire
Area Status, Kamloops Oct 29,
2023
My
afternoon flight, surprisingly turbulence free to 2023 summer devastating
wildfire with centered by
It was 170
km (106 mi) of pure fun. Normally I fly early morning to avoid the usual air
turbulence. The morning rising sun makes the visual conditions very difficult.
The east side of the mountains is almost black and the west side is
overexposed. The cameras cannot handle those extreme contrasts in Auto modes.
This time I
took a chance and flew in the high overhead noon sun. It was perfect in the
This video
shows very well the Tobiano and
453. Flying around Kamloops Lake and more.
Kamloops Oct 12, 2023
It was one of
my best and very relaxing, 130 km long flight. Weather was perfect, a bit on
chilly side, but without those typical and sudden bursts of nastiness. The
nature around
452. Flying
to Check Adams Lake Wildfire Situation. Kamloops Oct 1, 2023
I am
following my failed attempt in previous day to check the Shuswap area affected
by
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451. Flying to Shuswap Area. Kamloops Sep 31,
2023
This was
the day to fly. Almost sunny and no wind. I decided to check the still active,
but almost over the Adam’s
The flying
day was very interesting with spotty terrain from broken clouds shadows and
changing fall terrain colors. Of course I also checked the ever changing
sandbars in the Thompson River delta by
450. Flying over Ross Moore Lake Wildfire Area,
Sep 8, 2023
The flying
conditions were very good and even smoke form wildfires was not too bad. I
decided to check the status of
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449.
Kamloops Area Covered with
Wildfire Smoke, Sep 2, 2023
It was not
an ideal day to go flying because we had some serious, out of control fires
near by. Also wind direction helped to blow the smoke from the other places
too. I have to turn around in mid
flight, because to visibility was getting critical. I still have very good
video from
448. Low Water Level of Thompson
Rivers. Kamloops Aug 19, 2023
I flew
above both North and
447.
Kamloops in the Middle of
Wildfires. July 23, 2023
It was my
interesting, early morning flight.. Flew south by the monster, out of control,
wildfire by
446. Scenic Flight to Chase, Mt
Martin, Monte, Campbell and Scuitto Lakes. July 18, 2023
Beautiful
and very scenic flight through the
445. Scenic Flight to Little Shuswap Lake. High
Level Views of the River Valley. July 12, 2023
I was originally
flying to Salmon Arm airport, but heavy smoke from surrounding forest fires
made me to turn back earlier. Regardless, I have very good video of the
444. Scenic Loop to Highland Valley
Copper Mine, Spences Bridge Area, Ashcroft, Savona… July 4, 2023
It was a perfect and scenic flight through very interesting
country sites in various styles. Very nice aerial view of super big, Highland
Valley Copper Mine, open pit operation. I continued then into
443. Flying to Bonaparte Lake & Bonaparte
Provincial Park via McLure. June 30, 2023
It was 177
km (110 mi) long flight of pure fun. I tried several times to fly to
I was
really surprised with number of lakes and lash green and beautiful areas. I
also saw ravaged areas from 2021 forest fire, but the nature is slowly
recovering from that disaster. I captured the
442.
Flying to Deadman Falls over Tobiano,
Savona, Deadman River and Straight Line Back. June 26, 2023
I visited
the Deadman Falls in 2021 by motorcycle.
I also flew very nearby previously, but at that time I didn’t know about the
waterfalls there. I decided to check it out. It was very good, 153 km long and
very enjoyable flight. The scenery and the nature are spectacular. I followed
the
441.
Flight through Nicola Valley to Merritt,
Logan Lake and Tunkwa Lake, Kamloops June 17, 2023
This was
the day to fly. Absolutely the best conditions to do video. The fluffy clouds
created beautiful spotty patterns on the ground. Everything around was in full
green and healthy looking shape. I flew to small city Merritt airport through
one of the most scenic region
440. Local
Flight to Test Gimbal Head GoPro Camera, Kamloops June 6, 2023
I replaced
my Insta360 X2 camera with GoPro Hero 7B mounted in 3 axes stabilizer Removu
S1. The 360 deg camera is very good, but editing and lining the wanted views is
very tedious and time consuming. I was looking for better results, but I was
disappointed. I was hoping that motorized Gimbal head with 3 gyroscopes would
be proper solution. It is not as shown in the video. I will be going back to
Insta360 X2 as front view camera. You could still enjoy aerial views of
439. Scenic Flight from Vernon to Kamloops in
Extreme Turbulence. Part 2 of 2, May 31, 2023
The return
leg from
I chose
more scenic road through the
438. Direct and Peaceful Flight to
Vernon, Part 1 of 2. May 31, 2023
I was
considering this flight to neighboring airport in
I was up in
the air at 6:15 am to avoid heat changes from cold(er) morning to hot noon,
which brings turbulence. I chose straight line flight over the mountains to
437. Flight to Barriere, Whitecroft,
Barnhartvale, 180 km of Beauty. May 16, 2023
This was
another beautiful flight through less traveled areas. I followed the
I tried many times for several years
to fly close to the Rock Needle of Buse Hill, but the weather conditions had
always different plans. It looked promising this time, but my main, full view
camera battery died. I flew close, but still encounter unpleasant turbulence
there. I completed my journey above the south side of the
436. Flight to Sun Peaks, Chase and High Water
Level of South Thompson River. May 19, 2023
Beautiful
flight to quickly changing Sun Peaks from winter ski paradise to green mountain
playground. I continued to small village Chase, which is start of
It is
interesting to compare the river valley character between those two extremes.
See my video # 432 from Apr 14, 2023
for comparison.
435. Return Flight from Cache Creek to Kamloops,
May 11 2023
This is the
second part (video #434) of my trip
to Cache Creek to see the flooding situation there. The flight is threading
through very interesting geographical nature with beauty in every direction.
434. Flight to Cache Creek to Check the River
Flooding Situation. Kamloops, May 11 2023
It was an
interesting flight in the Thompson and Bonaparte river valleys to see the
flooding river conditions. Small town of Cache Creek was already affected by
damaging flood and expecting additional flood by
I was
considering this flight for several years now, but the terrain looks and is
very intimidating. The gold containing Tranquille Creek is running in very
deep, steep and narrow canyon. Definitively any mechanical or even
environmental failure would be total disaster in that hostile environment. I
started early in the morning to limit my exposure to expected turbulence, but
it was still not relaxing flight. The strong headwind created mechanical
turbulence behind and around the hills. This combined with warm and cold sides
of the canyon created very good turbulence. Well, I made it through! It is very
nice in the
The sky was
very clear and visibility perfect so you could see the Costal Mountain Ridge
still covered in snow.
432.
Complete South Thompson River, Low Water Level Aerial Survey, Kamloops, Apr 14, 2023
Here is my
aerial survey of all South Thompson River from Chase to
It was very
nice and interesting flight. I received warning form the Kamloops Flight
Services about ash from Russian (
431. Kamloops from the Air in Heavy Turbulence,
Apr 11, 2023
I wanted to
document extremely low water level in whole
I did not
make it too far this time, because of very strong and unpleasant
turbulence. I was getting air sick and I
did not want to push my luck. I had to give up. I hope I could make it soon. I
brought very interesting video from around the
430.
Flight to Lac Le Jeune and Detail Survey
of Kamloops Sandbars, Kamloops Mar 29, 2023
I flew over
scenic road to Lac Le Jeune Provincial Park, campground and residential area.
While
429.
Checking Low Water Level of North and
South Thompson Rivers, Kamloops
Mar 20, 2023
.
428.
Flying to Buse Lake in no Fun
Turbulence. Mar 16, 2023
I have been
trying 11 years to do close up of Buse Hill rock face needle, but the flying
conditions had been too dangerous to do it. The turbulence was too much for my
fun even far away from the hill. I toured above several
427. Flying
to Harper Ranch, Campbell Creek Rd to Knutsford, Ajax, Afton, Cherry Creek,
Kamloops, Mar 9, 2023
I ventured a
bit behind the hills in area which might not be very well known. All this is
presented with easy listening music. You could see: Brock,
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426. Flying
to Harper Ski Hill in very Good Turbulence. Kamloops Mar 3, 2023
Beautiful,
but turbulent flight to
425. Flying
over the City. Short, Intro Video. Kamloops Feb 11, 2023
424. Flying
over East of City, Valleyview, Dallas, Barnhartvale and then Sun Rivers, North
Shore and Brock. Kamloops Feb 11, 2023
This is the second part of my detailed city fly over.
423. Flying
in Survey Pattern over South Side of City, Kamloops Feb 15, 2023
It decided to do detail fly over the south side of
422. Flying
to Beautiful Area of Walhachin. Kamloops, Feb 9, 2023
It was beautiful winter day to have some good fun in the air.
Sunny sky and temperature above freezing added to that special mood. The
Walhachin area has very interestingly carved winding river banks, looking like
being made by a machine. The flight to that place goes through many natural
wonders looking spectacular from the ground and the air. Places to see from 113
km long flight: North Shore, Domtar, river junction, Aberdeen, Dufferin, Afton
mine, Cherry Creek area, Tobiano, hoodoos, Balancing Rock, Savona, Thompson
River rec areas, Walhachin, South Thompson River delta sand bars…
421. Flying
with the Clouds. Kamloops, Jan 15, 2023
This video
has background music
Another interesting
flying conditions: Heavy, multi-layer clouds, blue sky, bright sunshine, dark
ground areas. I covered North Ridge, Batchelor area,
I had
interesting moment before my landing when looking for entry hole in the clouds.
I had to ask the control tower to check it for me, which they did. It was
difficult to see anything except very bright white fluffs reflecting the sun
directly into my face. Another moment happened while I was taking pictures
above Batchelor subdivision where I was hit with sudden and strong updraft,
which almost ripped the control bar from my hand. It was fun and interesting
flight.
420. Flying with the Clouds.
Kamloops, Jan 15, 2023
This video has no background music.
Another
interesting flying conditions: Heavy, multi-layer clouds, blue sky, bright
sunshine, dark ground areas. I covered North Ridge, Batchelor area,
I had
interesting moment before my landing when looking for entry hole in the clouds.
I had to ask the control tower to check it for me, which they did. It was
difficult to see anything except very bright white fluffs reflecting the sun
directly into my face. Another moment happened while I was taking pictures
above Batchelor subdivision where I was hit with sudden and strong updraft,
which almost ripped the control bar from my hand. It was fun and interesting
flight.
Picturest.
419. Kamloops
Winter Sunset: Shorter Version of #418 Video. Dec 28, 2022
This is a
shorter version of the video #418, with mainly views from the front camera. It
is made for people liking to look around while enjoying the beautiful
Pictures
418. Kamloops
Winter Sunset: Uncut Front Camera View. Dec 28, 2022
This is a
long version of the video #417, with mainly views from the front camera. It is
made for people liking to look around while enjoying the beautiful
Pictures
417. Kamloops
Winter Sunset, Part 2 of 2. Dec 28, 2022
Spectacular
atmospheric conditions were captured in this late afternoon video. High clouds
above, low clouds just below, orange glow from setting down sun, rainbow, blue
sky, spectacular clouds colors and shapes…. Majority of my flight was very
peaceful and relaxing, but also with sharp awakening by a local turbulence.
Good aerial view of Batchelor Hill area, Brock, glowing in the sun Mt Peter,
Harper Ranch area, Dallas, North and NW Ridge area, Tranquille Farm / Padova
area.
Pictures
416. Kamloops
Winter Sunset, Part 1 of 2. Dec 28, 2022
Finally,
some decent weather for very nice late afternoon flight. This is short video
from above Brock and
415.
Cold Birds Views from Kamloops Areas.
Dec 13, 2022
I was
waiting whole month for this moment due to unreasonable weather. It was worth
of wait. The air was smooth like silk which took off the usual nasty weather
related surprises. I am showing very detail views of
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414. Spectacular
Flight over Snowy Downtown, Sun Rivers, Harper Ranch and North Ridge. Kamloops
Nov 12, 2022
Finally,
another nice flight after long pause due to bad weather. Everything looks even
more spectacular with the contrasting snow covered and bare surfaces. Check it
out.
413. Local,
170 km Long Flight till 30 min after the Sunset. Kamloops Oct 15, 2022
Enjoyable
evening flight to see
Interesting
views of
412. Rough Flying to See Ravaged Area by 2021
Wildfire of Monte Lake. Kamloops Oct 12, 2022
This was my
3rd attempt to see the effect of the 2021 devastating wildfire in
The area
looks like a different world. I felt like being in the volcano crater. Poor
residents: they had to live through this nature hell. I think I have very
interesting video from 5 cameras documenting my 130 km flight.
411.
Fantastic River Sandbars from the Air,
Sep 27, 2022
The end of
my 133 km (83 mi) journey, flight over the South Thompson River sandbars. They
are forming very interesting, complex, ever-changing and very beautiful
under/above water creations. Two minutes video.
Pictures
410. Flight
to Red Lake to Check Results of the Devastating 2021 Sparks Forest Fire, Sep
27, 2022
Flight started flying west, above the Kamloops North Ridge,
following the steep and rugged north shoreline of
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409. Nice
Flight in Serious Turbulence, Kamloops Sep 7, 2022
It looked
like an ideal condition for flying, but the reality changed very quickly into a
nasty turbulence. Decent condition changed within 10 km into scary situation.
Cool morning, no wind, cloudy without thermals so why this sudden change? I had
to change my original plan because I did not want to push my luck. It was still
very nice and eventually peaceful flight. Test
408.
My Stupid Mistake and Surprised Trike
Reaction, Kamloops Aug 28, 2022
This is
short video taken from my previous video #407. I am showing in details my
serious mistake and consequence when I forgot to buckle up the seat belt.
My seat
belt is not the best kind. It has the flip up latch to open it. This poor
design allowed me to unbuckle in flight (3x) when lifting the neck camera. I
solved this unpleasant problem with the funny pack covering the buckle. The
camera strap does not accidentally unbuckle me now, but complicate situation to
buckle up in flight.
The air was
very good and steady. I set (tuned) the electric wing trim to level, hands free
flight first. The complication started when trying to place both belt ends
under the funny pack with camera on the top of it. Then, suddenly and instantly
the control bar went to max forward up to the front brace. I did not change the
RPM. It had to be vertical puff of air. This proved my point that it is
important to relax your hands on control bar, but still control or dampen the
bar/wing from reaching the extreme movement due to the asymmetrical vertical
air movements.
407.
Turbulence Changed my Plan to Fly to
another Nature Beauty, Kamloops Aug 28, 2022
Originally
I had different plan, but totally unexpected and ever increasing turbulence
made me turn around and look for some more peaceful place to fly. I found it
and it was very beautiful country site with many lakes, hills and deep valleys.
I had also one stupid moment shoving how close I was to some serious problem. I
will show more details in my follow up short video to show my stupidity from
different camera angles. You will get the pictures in this video.
Pictures
406. Flight
to Salmon Arm Airport Coffee and Return Flight Back at Hot Noon, Aug 17, 2022
I was
considering this flight for long time, but the hot noon weather effect scared
me from doing it. Salmon Arm flying club, about one hour away, has Wednesday
morning coffee fly-ins, which starts at 10 am. Normally, I am back from my
flights by 9 am to prevent the nastiness of the hot weather turbulence. This
time it was different. I took off at 9 am (22 C / 72 F) and returned at noon at
29 C (84 F). The first leg was a straight line over some mountain area very
hostile to emergency landing. I encounter turbulence close to the peak. The
turbulence is not the problem, but the apprehension about what will come next.
Is this the first warning, would it get worse, what to do next. I could go
higher, but eventually I had to go low too… Salmon Arm is very member active
airport located is beautiful area by enormous
I followed
the highway and the river valley through the civilization on my way back. The
sun was in my back, so it was better for the cameras. This video is extract
from my 10 hours, 5 camera videos, 214 km (133 mi) long flight through one of
the best nature in this region. There was practically no heat turbulence except
above the concrete runways, like always.
405.
Beautiful Flying to Douglas Lake over
Many Other Lakes, Aug 12, 2022
190 km (118
mi) long trip through the most picturesque hills, valleys and lake areas to a
special recreational area of Douglas Lake Ranch. The ranch is owned by an
Pictures
404.
Mountain Flying to Greenstone Mt, Ajax
Mine, Kamloops Downtown and Watching Creek Wild Fire, Aug 6, 2022
It was very
relaxing and a bit colder flight (11 C (52 F) to very nice area of Greenstone
mountain. It used to be the forestry
fire watch tower, before they switched to satellites and electronics. The shack
is still there and maintained be volunteers even though it was several times
vandalized. It is one of the highest peaks in that region which offers perfect
360 deg view. I flew to
403. Hot Summer Morning Flight to Isobel and
Many Other Lakes, Jul 28, 2022
I took off
at 7:30 in 24 C (75 F) sweating temperature to cool off in higher up, but no
luck. Regardless, I flew over another spectacular and diverse terrain with many
lakes, hills, deep valleys, meadows and forest. I am shoving this beautiful
Pictures
402.
Another Fantastic Flight to Knuff Lake
and Sun Peaks, Second Largest Ski Resort in Canada, Jul 20, 2022
Morning
flight to beautiful recreational area of Knuff and Sullivan lakes and then to
401. Flight to Ashcroft and Landing in Cache
Creek, Jul 14, 2022
Perfect flight
in spectacular river valley and good combination of sun and cloud for good
video. I did this route several times and it is always challenging with very
variable weather conditions. There are several valleys meeting in one point
which is very often rough to fly through. After every landing in Cache Creek I
made decision not to land there anymore, but, like this time, I did it again.
This is short video from 165 km flight made into very nice music. Check our
luckiness to live in such complex natural beauty. I had very rare opportunity
to video two opposing trains in the same place, but separated by river. It
looks like model trains running in the loop.
400.
Flight over Mountain to Chase and S
Thompson River Track Back, Jul 2, 2022
It was one
of my best ever flight; perfectly relaxing and without any unpleasant weather
surprises. I flew in straight line over the
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399. Hot Evening Flight over Flooding Rivers,
Jun 25, 2022
It was the
first very hot day and in this case evening, 30C (86 F) at 8 pm. I flew to
check the status of our two major rivers flooding. It was a bit let down,
because the water level was lower then previous night. This is good news that
the predicted, half century flooding will not happen. We cannot do victory lap,
because the nature could always surprise us with own quirks.
It was very
good flight and the resulting video, fully annotated is showing it. I really
like to read your comments, which is the only reward for my hours of hopefully
not wasted life.
Pictures
398. Flying over Flooding S Thompson River from
Chase for Kamloops Lake. Jun 20, 2022
I flew 150
km in early morning to see the state of the
The
flooding of N and S Thompson rivers is an annual event. Each spring those
rivers change from shallow rivers with many islands, beautiful beaches and
interestingly sculptured sand bars into raging rivers (almost like small lakes)
flooding many low laying fields and areas. Time to time they create disaster
floods as marked on the attached photo of the historic floods. So far, the
rivers are at annual flood, but forecast is for disastrous flood in the level
of 1972. It was very relaxing flight above all green and yellow terrain except
usual and sudden turbulence to wake me up from my daydreams.
397. Flying over Kamloops Flooding Rivers in
Turbulence. Landing Experiment. Jun 11, 2022
An
unusually colder spring delayed snow melting in the mountains. Finally we had
several very warm days and mainly nights which is now accelerating the snow
melting. The rivers cannot keep up and so we are expecting some serious floods.
I flew to check it out. The North and South Thompson rivers are already
spilling out in the low laying areas. It was almost relaxing flight until I hit
serious turbulence in the 7:30 morning sun heat. This cut into my original
plan.
I did also
my pre landing experiment to lower the effect of dark and hot runway in the
middle of green and cold grass. It really took an age from usual unpleasant
turbulent landings. My experiment worked.
396. Flight to Buse Lake Area in Sudden and
Crazy Turbulences. May 29, 2022
Early
morning flight into a special natural rock formation in very weird weather. I
started with no wind, which was changing up to 53 km/h. The flying was from
very relaxing to instant heavy turbulence. Landing was interesting too with
head wind speed from 52 km/h to no wing within 1000’ elevation
difference. I was hoping to fly close to the Buse Hill rock face, but the
weather conditions there were too risky.
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395.
Beautiful Flight to Paska and Other
Lakes. Playing in the Clouds. May 24, 2022
Super
flight to Paska Lake Recreation Resort, low level fluffy clouds to
394. Beautiful Flight to Roche Lake Area. May
21, 2022
This was
one of my best flights over many lakes, meadows, hills and valleys. The sky was
sprinkled with scattered clouds creating interesting patterns of shadows down
below. The flight was mix of relaxation to full attention from turbulence. It
was also my best landing with zero kinetic energy into my wheels. I was
impressed.
393.
Turbulent Flight to Deadman River
Valley, May 17, 2022
The flight
was almost relaxing until I entered the
392. Flying between Battle Bluffs and Harper
Ranch in Heavy Turbulence, May 10, 2022
My original
plan was much more ambitious, but I had to change it due to increasingly more
unpleasant turbulence. Terrain is more beautiful with greens covering the
majority of its surface. My flight is over the most beautiful natural area of
391.
Flying to Tobiano, Savona Mt, Tunkwa
Lake, Logan Lake, Lac Le Jeune, Ajax, Petersen Creek, Apr 23, 2022
Flying 145
km round trip through some spectacular and also sad scenery. The SW portion of my
flight was over the remnants of the devastating 2021 forest fire(s). It looks
interesting, but also very sad. The small town (pop 2500)
I captured
also different and complete view of Tobiano and nearby hoodoo areas. East side
of Mt Savona looks very interesting.
I flew over
several still frozen lakes around Lac Le Jeune. I had an opportunity to spot
the three large flocks of cranes, but much lower then I was flying. I made a
few attempts to get closer, but they were faster in their maneuvers. They were
very well aware of my presents above them.
I made
closer aerial video of the Petersen Creek canyon and
390. Flying to Louis Creek, Whitecroft and
Heffley Lake, Apr 15, 2022
It was very
nice flight through the backcountry in deep valleys. In 2021 fire season
the Whitecroft was in unwanted center of attention when it was part of very bad
forest fire. The fire result could be seen in video. It was very close to the
Whitecroft village and just barely separated from the very popular Sun Peaks
Ski Resort, the 2nd largest ski resort in
Nice view
of still frozen
The landing
was as expected, hairy. There was no reported wind at the airport, the air was
about 5C, but the dark runway was heated to perhaps to 15C. This created very
unpleasant turbulence near the runway surface. I also felt twice sudden push
from the back, which was the first one for me. I was bounced in every
direction, which is not very pleasant experience few feet from the ground.
389. Round Flight to Merritt BC through
Beautiful Nicole Valley, Mar 29, 2022
I few to
small city airport in Merritt. Merritt was seriously damaged during the autumn
2021 flooding. Some houses and properties were destroyed. I could not see much
of that effect from the air. Merritt is located in beautiful mountain
surroundings and connected with famous
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388.
Exploring Kamloops Area Natural Beauty,
Mar 24, 2022
I am
presenting fantastic beauty of the Kamloops NE Ridge area. I flew above 3 herds
of wild horses grazing in very picturesque setting. It was windy, but not gusty
day to have very good flying experience. Join me to see what only a few people
could experience.
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387. Flying back from Cache Creek Challenging
Airport, Part 2 of 2. Mar 16, 2022
This is second leg of my flight as describes in video #386. I
was not looking forward to take off due to high wind in about 45 deg to my
left. It was bumpy, but not too bad. Trip scenery is always spectacular,
because it is very diverse. It is very complex terrain all around us. I wish it
was a bit green to make it more colorful, but it is still too early for that.
The flight was very easy and smooth except, of course, just above
Pictures
386. Flying to Cache Creek Challenging Airport,
Part 1 of 2. Mar 16, 2022
The weather was just great with blue sky to fly 45 min west
to small, single runway, mountain type airport. I was following Thompson River
valley, over Tobiano,
Pictures
385. Exploring North Thompson River with
Insta360 One X2 Camera. Mar 6, 2022
I had very nice flight while testing additional features of
my new camera, Insta360 One X2. In this video, I used explanatory comments of
tested features.
Pictures
384. Super Day over
Super Nature – The Way the Birds See It. Mar 3, 2022
It was unbelievable sunny day with very complex sky and
complex ground. Dark and still some snow covered surface created indescribable
nature complexness which would be a big challenge for any artist to paint. I
tested my Insta360 One X2 camera in another location, but I am still not happy
with the result. The next time I will mount it on the wing. This video plays
into classical music, creating relaxing mood. The last few years of camera
technology progress surprises me every time I view my videos. Let me know if
you like it.
383. Testing my New
Camera Insta360 One X2, Part 2 of 2. Feb 18, 2022
Side mounted camera vibrated too much in previous video. This
time I mounted it up front on the trike nose. Resulted video, which looks like
globe must be edited into viewable clips to be integrated and synchronize with
other GoPro cameras. A big advantage is that I could keep horizon level in
turns. This has to be done manually in post editing process. Also the GoPro
camera video could be speeded up max 3x without too much of extra distractions.
Faster it plays more jerking it become. I tested the Insta360 in speed 8x
faster, which translates into perceived flying speed of 960 km/h (597 mph). I
was very impressed with the results. This and part 1 videos just test the features. I will be
very careful not to be sucked into gimmicks. The bottom line is that camera is
very impressive.
Pictures
382. Testing my New
Camera Insta360 One X2, Part 1 of 2. Feb 18, 2022
Just bought
the Insta360 One X2 camera and testing it in two positions. In this test it is
on my side long mount. The bracket is long but it is vibrates too much.
I am
learning totally new field of editing. This camera is actually two cameras
together taking 360 global views. I have to edit individual views, play speed,
horizon angle correction in turns…, just more time to kill. I also wanted to
know if it will integrate with my GoPro cameras. So far it works. This and part
2 videos just test the features. I will be very careful not to be sucked into
gimmicks. The bottom line is that camera is very impressive.
Pictures
381. Interrupted
Flight due to Heavy Turbulence and Strong Wind. Feb 10, 2022
It was
beautiful sunny day with no wind and +2C (36F). I was planning to fly to
different airport,
I knew that
I would have hard time to fly in that headwind back. It was decision time:
Should I or shouldn’t I? Suddenly terrible turbulence started which bounced me
very good. It decided for me. I turned back and was inching towards
Pictures
380. My Best Flight to
Harper and Sun Peaks Ski Hills. Feb 6, 2022
This was my age depressing, 75th birthday flight. I needed to
take some edges of those “It’s over life feelings”. Fortunately, the weather was
perfect to relax in the air. I flew first to Harper Mountain Ski area, showing
our smaller ski hill. The next on my list was the 2nd largest ski
area in
Pictures
379. Day to Explore
Natural Beauty of Kamloops, SW and NW Areas. Jan 24, 2022
This was one of the best days for winter flying with smooth air and very
little weather surprises.
I flew over many frozen lakes and mountain ridges, eventually view
Pictures
378. Beautiful Winter
Flying in N Thompson Valley, Jan 18, 2022
Nice flying day to get some fresh air and have fun with it.
Pictures
377. Kamloops First
Flight in 2022. Relaxing, Awesome and
Turbulent, Jan 15, 2022
After long period of very cold weather, the Mother Nature smartened up
with quickly disappearing snow and above freezing temperatures. Patches of the
disappearing snow created very interesting ground patterns with awesome
results. It was very good flight at totally relaxing mode, but also with some
shaking up turbulence. New camera mount and view angle.
376. Kamloops Winter Beauty, Dec 19, 2021
It was cold, but sunny so it looked very inviting to go flying. We
received some snow, but wind formed many high drifts. I spent more then hour to
shovel my access to runway.
I started at -7C (19F), but ended up at -10C (14F). I found that all my
4 GoPro cameras were off when landed, while batteries showed 100%. This was
serious letdown. Eventually I learned that Hero 7 cameras are good only down to
0C (32F). Previously I had few unintended cameras off at minus 5C, but I
thought it is the usual GoPro quirk. They definitely did not like -10C (14F).
BTW, it is nor written in the manual. I Goggled it. Regardless, I have only half on my flight
which sill shows
Pictures
375. Low Level
Flight over Kamloops Downtown, Tobiano and Spectacular North Ridge, Dec 6, 2021
It was perfect flying day at -6C (21F) and some fresh snow. I was lucky
again not to worry about wind nastiness and turbulences, so I could enjoy
closer (then normally) proximity of
Pictures
374. Low Level
Flight over Kamloops Downtown, Mt Peter & Paul and Frederick Road, Dec 3,
2021
The weather was perfect for low level flying without worrying about
turbulence and wind flow over different hills. I follower Petersen Creek bike
path, then to Mt Peter and Paul to show how big it is on the top. The next points
were low level flights over Mt Mara, Battle Bluffs and surrounding hills and
valleys. Finally I follow the
373. Low Level
Exploration of Phenomenal Walhachin Area, Nov 26, 2021
The river banks of Walhachin (small village west of
I
made mistake in my video labeling: What I noted there as
Juniper Beach RV Park is in fact the Rock and River Rustic Retreat located in
Thompson Rivers Estates.
Pictures
372. The Best Time to Fly; First Snow Made
Everything Even More Beautiful, Nov 19, 2021
I love this time of the year: Fresh snow, blue sky and no wind and
turbulence. The snow really enhances the
371. Flight
over the most Beautiful Areas in Kamloops, Nov 13, 2021
It was beautiful flight with some serious turbulence too. I covered
areas in Dufferin,
Pictures
370. Guided Tour through Kamloops Area Beauty,
Oct 31, 2021
I think that this is one of my best videos. Slow and low over North
Ridge popular hiking areas, Lac Du Bois Grasslands Westsyde,
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Enjoy relaxing and even upbeat music. Watch
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369. Relaxing
Flight over Beautiful Countryside of Knutsford Area, Low Level Downtown and
More, Oct 30, 2021
Chilly, sunny and no wind morning flight over some of the most beautiful
areas of
368. Challenging
and Turbulent Adventure Flight around many Kamloops Lakes and Provincial Parks,
Oct 19, 2021
It was fun, but a bit challenging flight. I had to wait till 1 pm for
sky to open and it really did. Still a bit hazy, but happy, sunny day.
I flew through 4 provincial parks and around 14 (annotated) lakes. I
experienced totally relaxing flight in no wind, 55 km/h (34 mph) headwind to 85
km/h (53 mph) tail wind and all this within 15 min. A significant portion of the flight was in
turbulence, but it was not as scary to me as it used to be before.
Half of my flight was above burned out forest section which was
significantly destroyed during 2021 summer Tremont Creek fire. There is a lot
of evidence how the fire progressed to small town
367. Flying to
Tobiano and Spectacular River Sandbars.
Oct 14, 2021
This was my second flight of the day. The first flight was very
turbulent and so I was hoping for something more relaxing. It started in very
good weather and smooth air up to a point. Eventually it became very turbulent,
just west of Tobiano. In this video, I spent more time in low level flight
above the
366. Flying
into Very Sudden and Nasty Turbulence.
Oct 14, 2021
I found (eventually), that I had cracked and leaking fuel tank. I almost
run out of fuel during my
365. Short and
Sweet Aerial Video from between Kamloops and Walhachin. Oct 6, 2021
Short video of
364. Flying above Beautiful Landscape to Johnson
Lake. Oct 1, 2021
We came back from holiday into very beautiful fall weather, big contrast
to smoke ravaged air from the summer forest fires. I flew to
The flight was very relaxing over low cloud/fog in the river valley,
forming spectacular views. The steep hills were filled by fall colors, while
horizon
363. One of the Best Days to Fly through 200 km
of Kamloops Area Beauty. Sep 2, 2021
We had 1.5 month of terrible forest fires all around BC, poor or no
visibility and serious restrictions where and how to fly. Everything suddenly
changed. Crisp clear, but cold morning provided perfect weather to do some
local exploration. My original plan was to fly to
362. Flying over Tremont Creek Fire Ravaged Area
(Mt Savona, Tunkwa Lake, Logan Lake…).
Aug 24, 2021
Interesting birds views of Tremont Creek fire, the east side of burned
out areas. The fire started in July 12, 2021, 27 km west of where I was flying,
burning solid for 2 weeks. I did not use in this video my usual short cuts, but
I kept continual views from my full view front camera.
It is interesting to note that not everything is burned out. The fire is
actually very choosy and the result is patch work of black/brown and green
areas.
I started east of Mt Savona then follow close to
361. Kamloops in the Middle of Wild Fires from
11, 340 ft. Aug 18, 2021
It looked like nice weather for change, but it did not last very long. I
was planning to fly to Merritt, but right after take off I saw it would be
impossible. The smoke on south site of the city was so thick that the upper
360. Kamloops, Walhachin, Barnhartvale in Clear Sky
while Surrounded by Wild Fires. Aug 9,
2021
Exceptionally nice weather with good visibility, rarity in these days
when
359. Kamloops Area
is Burning – Extremely Smoky Sky. Aug 6,
2021
I could not wait to get back into the sky. We are here in
The visibility was very poor with two lines above horizon: smoke line at
around 7000’ and very close above it the cloud line. I could not go higher then
8,500’ to have clear view, because the clouds were low. There was certain
beauty in this ugliness and very spooky feeling. The visibility was very bad on
the way back.
358. My Record
Adventure Flight to 3669 m / 12,004 ft. July 17, 2021
I took off into smoky (forest fires) skies in west direction to check on
developing and existing, out of control fires. Previous day, I visited some
those effected places by motorcycle and now it was the time for the distant
bird view. I had to climb to over 3048 m / 10,000 ft to just clear the smoke
layer to see distant fires. I hit the smoke wall above
357. Flight in
very Smoky Air. July 14, 2021
We have 320 wild fires burning in BC. The air was loaded with thick
smoke, which looked worse with the increasing elevation. It was decent when I
left home, but it was changing quickly. I ended up with fire ash covering my
front camera lent.
I wanted to check the latest fires (from distance, of course), but the
west side was like wall of smoke. The east side started to get very turbulent,
when I reached the valley level when the latest fire was burning. I turned
around and cut this flight short. The video still turned out interesting, with
rising sun just slightly poking through like orange ball and layers of smoke of
different colors and shades.
Pictures
356. Kamloops
Area on Forest Fires. July 6, 2021
We have in British Columbia (BC), which is the most western province
(state) in
I had to go up to almost 10,000’ to clear the smoke.
355. Early
Morning Hot and very Turbulent Flight. June 26, 2021
I took off at 6:30am at 26C, no ground wind and perfectly sunny day. It quickly changed into
30 km/h headwind and very unpleasant turbulence, which was coming in serious
bursts. I was looking for different elevations, but it was actually getting
warmer with height and more unpredictable higher up. Eventually I did not want
to push my luck and turned back I could feel the hot blast from the concrete
runway during landing. The air temperature was already at 28C
354. Last Day
of Spring, Hot Evening Flight. June 20, 2021
I took off soaked in my own sweat at 7:45 pm and 28 C (82 F) and almost
cold at 2290 m (7,500’) at 17 C (63 F). It felt at about 1000’ above ground
while coming down like opening oven and walking through it. It was good flight
above our nature beauty which is all aground us here in
353. Flying to
Roche Lake Area, June 17, 2021
Explored new region to me, which is set of lakes around
352. Checking
Flood Situation of our Rivers and Terrible Turbulence, June 6, 2021
I started at 6:30 am to avoid thermal turbulence, but it did not help. Within
5 km the situation changed almost instantly from peaceful to dangerous. I had
to cut short my original plan to check the both
351. Challenging Flight to Dunn Peak Mountain
Area, May 22, 2021
This was my 2nd flight (https://youtu.be/3pdqw_gorPY)
to the highest mountain peak in this region. The flying conditions here are by
default unpredictable and they change within minutes or few kilometers. I took
off at 6:40 am to beat the sun generated turbulence. The flight started right
off the deck with turbulence getting progressively worse. I was contemplating
to call it off and suddenly everything stopped into very peaceful flight. I
flew up to
The mountain area is spectacular and huge. I spent more time there then
in 2019, to record and absorb all that beauty. How lucky I am to do this! I
wish I could take a busload of people with me to share my experience there. I
was glad when I was back in the river valley, back to civilization. The
mountains are spectacular, but potentially dangerous. The return flight was
peaceful down to Barriere village, then another challenging spot to overcome
through the canyon valley and then turbulence really started. I was flying lice
garbage bag in the wind. There was no return for me; I had to carry though it.
Everything stopped again in about 15 minutes. Landing was another issue when
landing on hot dark runway. I was bounced there very well.
350. Morning,
128 km Fight in Kamloops Area Beauty, May 16, 2021
I discovered new (to me) lakes, meadows, hills and plains in this
spectacular region, lucky to be living in.
349. Early
Morning Fight Joined by another Homebuilt, May 11, 2021
This was different and very unique experience for me. I was joined by
another local pilot in his beautifully built Zodiac homebuilt aircraft. We took
of at 6:30 am to avoid turbulence from the powerful
348. Beautiful Flight to Sun Peaks and South
Thompson Rive, May 5, 2021
This early morning flight was very relaxing and enjoyable. I took off
early and 6:30 to beat the powerful sun heat and of course turbulence as shown
in my previous video. This made the trick. My first leg was east, straight into
very low rising sun. I felt like Lindbergh in his Spirit of
St. Louis. I could see nothing with that sun shining
directly into my face through the windshield and my helmet visor. I had to look
sideways to see where I am going. Everything changed when I turn north towards
the
I landed and taxied to my hangar at 8 am and suddenly, like if someone
turn switch on, the wind started to blow but only in the east part of the
airport. The wind sock in the west side was still limped. It was very good flight
347. Flight in Terrible Turbulence but Beautiful
Weather, May 2, 2021
My plan ended up totally differently from the original one. I started in
calm, sunny and warm weather, but it changed quickly into very nasty and few
times terrifying turbulences. I was looking into different elevations but no
luck. I made it just 20 km north from the airport, just 1/3 of my planning
distance to
346. Beautiful, Exciting, Intimidating and
Turbulent Flight to Vidette, Apr 20, 2021
I followed
345. Beautiful Sunset Flight in Summer like
Weather, Apr 17, 2021
I was thinking about this flight long time. I wanted to know how those
navigation lights would look like in darkness. It was exceptionally warm
evening from 24C to 19C and surprisingly no surprises from touchy
344. Beautiful Flight from Salmon Arm Airport to
Kamloops, Apr 15, 2021
This is return leg of my 223 km cross-country flight, this time from
Salmon Arm back to
343. Beautiful Flight to Salmon Arm Airport, Apr
15, 2021
Very scenic flight following shore of famous and in summer popular
342. 145 km Flight over Knutsford and Tobiano
Areas, Apr 13, 2021
Very scenic flight over complex terrain and spectacular views. It was
good day.
341. Flying to Chase, Apr 6, 2021
Very good flight east through South Thompson Rive valley, one of the
most scenic area in
340. Very
Unpleasant Flight in Pure Turbulence, March 31, 2021
After several days of serious winds, this day was totally calm with blue
sky and +8C. I was really looking forward to my cross country flight, but it
was quickly clear that it will not happen. I was bouncing like yoyo as soon as
I took off. I was in one continual turbulence which eventually made me
nauseated. Four days before I flew on commercial flight (as passenger) in heavy
turbulence, which was my second worse turbulence on commercial flight. I become
air sick which I felt for 3 days. My flight only multiplied that sick in
stomach feeling. At least I have very good video from just 30 min flight.
339. Very Nice Flight to Nicola Valley and
Glimpse Lake, Mar 16, 2021
I took advantage of perfect weather to fly through spectacular BC
countryside.
338. Flying
in Campbell Creek Valley to
Barnhartvale, Mar 9, 2021
I attempted to fly this valley several times already, but the non
cooperating weather always changed my plans. I was lucky this time. It is very
nice area which I explored on motorcycle from ground up. It was time to do it
from the air. The valley is usually very windy with crazy turbulence, because
the air is compressed into narrow and winding trough. One of my 4 cameras did
not record anything, so I lost one view, but I still have nice video into
classical music.
337. Flying to Knutsford and North Ridge. Heavy
Turbulence, Mar 2, 2021
It was decent day for https://youtu.be/xOV1d5IvHewflying
with no wind at the
336. Flying form Cache Creek in Exciting Flight,
Feb 21, 2021
I was getting anxious to go back after 40 minutes flight from
I met another ultralight pilot there, Daniel Berwin who landed after me.
He decided to follow me a bit and take some aerial pictures. It was nice
change, because it is just 2nd opportunity in my life to fly with
somebody. Another excitement happened in about 10 minutes in my flight when I
spotted another plane (Cessna) well down under me flying to Cache Creek. He
really sucked the air from my track resulting good bump. I started in -2C in
335. Flying to Tobiano, Walhachin and Cache
Creek. Good Turbulence, Feb 21, 2021
This was the first leg of my 1.5 hour flight to Cache Creek. I flew via
golf and residential area high above
334. Beautiful Winter Flight in Beautiful
Wintery Kamloops, Feb 16, 2021
Finally, after several windy days of real winter in
333. Flying in Fresh Snow to Kamloops Juniper
Ridge and Area, Feb 6, 2021
It was gorgeous day after overnight fresh show, blue sky and above
freezing temperature. I took off downwind (~13 km/h) west, turned to east in
totally calm air and in about 200 m higher I got into serious tail wind of up
to 45 km/h from west. The wind was flowing simultaneously from opposite
direction within short elevation difference. I flew over Juniper Ridge
subdivision, which looks very flat from the air, but it is actually very hilly
and assuming also challenging to drive those steep streets in winter. I
explored Rose Hill and Knutsford area too. It was very good flight.
332. Experience
with “GoPro Hero 9 Black” as a Prime Camera for Unrestricted Frontal View, Feb
2, 2021
I sold my
GoPro Hero 7 and replaced the front full view camera with the latest GoPro Hero
9 Black. The reason is Hero 9 horizon lock to prevent horizon tilt when
turning. Tilting horizon is annoying in my videos, so I always switch in those
moments to side camera views. Well, the horizon lock did not work very well and
actually it was very bad. I could use only few clips from this miracle Hero 9
camera. I return the Hero 9 back to store. Now, I need to buy another Hero 7
Black. I am showing examples of badness and my interpretation of how this
horizon lock would not work in my case. I was hoping for steady “Super
stabilized” views, so I could run video 4x faster without any distractions. I
am sorry to report that the result was totally unacceptable. This is excellent
camera for other application, but not for what I wanted it for. For that
purpose Hero 7 Black is far superior. If you are considering to buying it for
flying then you should watch this video.
331. Following
North Ridge to Harper Ski Hill in Heavy Turbulence, Feb 2, 2021
I sold my
GoPro Hero 7 and replaced the front full view camera with the latest GoPro Hero
9 Black. The reason is H9 horizon lock to prevent horizon tilt when turning.
This was annoying in my videos, so I always switched at those moments to side
camera views. Well, it did not work very well and actually it was very bad. I
could use only few clips from this miracle camera. I return the Hero 9 back to
store. Now, I wish to buy back my Hero 7 Black camera. I am looking. I will
post me experience and example, why this camera is no good for aviation at
least for full camera view without any part of airplane in the view. It was expensive
experiment for me. I sold my like new camera cheap and most likely I will pay
more and most likely for abused and bruised camera.
It was
beautiful and calm (!) day, but not for long. Within of about 5 minutes it
started kicking up and down. It was getting progressively worse on the way
back. I was looking for some smoother air level, but there was nothing
available for me. When I crossed the
330. Flying
over North and South Thompson Rivers, Jan 29, 2021
I have very
good video from cold flight. We had some traces of new snow, which makes the
surrounding scenery more contrasting and more interesting.
329. Kamloops
Aerial Photos: Peterson Creek, Downtown, North Shore, Brock - Slideshow, Jan
20, 2021
Pictures
taken from the top (south) of Peterson Creek in small increments through
downtown then west up to airport. Pictures are from video # 327
328. Beautiful
Nicola Valley Aerial Photos - Slideshow, Jan 20, 2021
Pictures
taken only in
327. Low
Flight through the most Beautiful Valley in Kamloops Region, Jan 20, 2021
It was an
excellent, but a bit chilly flying day. I tried several times before to fly low
in the
326. Cloud
Challenge to Keep within Clear Sky, Jan 15, 2021
The airport
area was without clouds when I took off. As soon as I was above their level I
could see that it would be wise to stay within that hole only. The clouds
eventually cleared on the west side and open up also south. I flew over
325. Following
South Ridge to Buse Hill and North Ridge to Sandbars. Turbulent Air, Jan 15,
2021
Finally after
16 days of warm, but very windy weather, the Mother Nature finally brought
crispy, blue sky and no wind day. Masses of people enjoyed this sudden change
together with several local flyers. I was planning to go for low and close
aerial exploration of Buse Hill which looks very cool on its north side. I soon
discovered that I would be lucky if I even make it there. The air was very
bumpy with many very sudden kicks and pushes, which took a bit of optimism from
my joy. I made it there, but I did not dare to go any close to it. The flight
on the way back was not any better. I saw 9 wild horses on at the foot of North
Ridge. I finished my flight with a victory lap over the river delta sand bars.
They are amazing creation of nature, which could be seen only from the above,
high just enough to see the underwater formations. When I landed I found out
that my full view, front mounted camera refused to record. Those cameras are
not very reliable. It was very good day anyway.
324. CBC
Radio Interview with Me, Jan 7, 2021
This is
radio interview with me about my flying in
323. The Last Flight of Decade, Low Level over
Downtown and North Shore, Dec 31, 2020
Very good
video from the low level flight over the
322.
Flying to Savona-Deadman Rd Area via
North Ridge and Tobiano, Dec 27, 2020
Another
decent day to fly, with temperature just hovering around freezing, but sunny
west of the airport. This is what I selected to fly; following the sun. The
mountain views of the N-W Ridge are spectacular. The snow and bare area create
pencil like drawings with so much details filling every pixel. It was beautiful.
I flew above many eagles on
321. Flying
to Harper Mt Ski Area by South Thompson River, Dec 27, 2020
It was
beautiful, sunny day to fly over just 2 day old snow covered terrain. This
valley is the most picturesque area in the
Finally, we
had good flying weather with temperature a touch above zero. I was following
TransCanada hwy #1 to Tobiano. This very winding road is carved through very
nice hills and valleys while passing through the upper
Pictures
319. What
to Wear in Cold Weather, Nov 28, 2020
Several
people posted on Facebook question about what to wear in winter while flying
open aircraft. This short video shows what I wear and what works. I used to fly
down to -25C (-13F), so I feel to be qualified to show what works.
318. Low
level flight over Knutsford area and North Thompson River, Nov 28, 2020
I wanted to
fly over 7 peaks south of the Campbell Creek. Unfortunately, very low cloud
ceiling forced me to turn around and look for some better conditions. I flew
north up to McLure, very low to get better view of my surroundings. Weather was
excellent and flight very enjoyable.
The video looks very good and I hope that at least people living in those areas
would like it. Just after take of I felt me knees getting cold and realized
that I forgot to put on my snowmobile (winter) pants. I flew 1.5 hours and I
was a bit stiff, but not too bad. This trike is reasonably “warm”. I flew 1.5
hours at average ground speed of 121 km/h. That’s very good!
317.
Flying to Sun Peaks to Check the Ski
Season Opening Day, Nov 21, 2020
316.
Flying above Kamloops Rivers, Nov 19,
2020
It was
another beautiful day to go exploring the
Pictures
315. Flying
in Quickly Changing Clouds Ceiling, Nov 10, 2020
We received
real winter like snow, but sun started to peek through the clouds. I have to
clear snow to get to the runway first, while blue sky was quickly shrinking.
Traces of sun were replaced with white clouds pushing downwards and squeezing
me out like a tooth paste. I was forced to turn around to just legal limit to
avoid those clouds. I still have good video from around the downtown.
Pictures
314. Very
Few People have Seen Kamloops Beauty from This Angle, Nov 6, 2020
I changed
editing concept in this video and I think I will stick with it. I am using 4
GoPro cameras, which run continually. Previously I cut views in 5 sec clips,
while cuts were synchronized with the music beat. My intent was to show all
views, front, both sides and pilots view. Now, I run the front camera with full
170 deg horizontal view at 2x speed with minimum cuts. I use the other cameras
views only in turns, because the front view does not look good because of the
panning effect and horizon tilt.
The weather
was exceptional with perfect
It would be
nice if you leave me your comment, and tell me what you think about my video
editing change.
Note: I have LG TV with 3D feature (3D
glasses). I tried to turn TV on 3D and the view was amazing. I was very, very
impressed. How is it done, to convert it instantly into fake 3D, without 3D
cameras?
313.
Glory, Optical Effect, During my Flight,
Oct 31, 2020
Wikipedia: A glory is an optical
phenomenon, resembling an iconic saint's halo around the shadow of the
observer's head, caused by sunlight or (more rarely) moonlight interacting with
the tiny water droplets that compose mist or clouds. The glory consists of one
or more concentric, successively dimmer rings, each of which is red on the
outside and bluish towards the centre. Due to its appearance, the phenomenon is
sometimes mistaken for a circular rainbow, but the latter has a much larger
diameter and is caused by different physical processes.
Glories arise due to wave
interference of light internally refracted within small droplets.
312. Beautiful Flight along North and South
Ridges, Oct 20, 2020.
After unexpected cold snap down to -11C, it was another
beautiful day for flying. It is still pleasant to fly at +6C temperature and especially
in my “warm” Apollo trike. The Apollo cockpit is very well designed to protect me from the
element. It is big difference when compared with my previous AirBorne “cold”
trike.
I
followed North Ridge west, crossed
311. Flying with Spectacular Kamloops Clouds,
Oct 20, 2020.
Late morning with -3C temperature and many different layers
of clouds were too inviting to ignore. It was one of the most spectacular
flights for me. I am so lucky to have almost 360 deg no obscured view from my
trike so see that vast area beauty. I have never seen this type of clouds at
the second cloud layer. You cannot see that from the ground, I felt like to
jump into them and have some serious fun there. It was very good flight.
310. Flying to Tobiano and Mt Savona in the Best
Scenery Ever, Oct 14, 2020.
It was one of my best flights ever. If you want to watch this
video then do yourself favor and watch it on a large monitor or at least on a
tablet. The phone screen is too small to really appreciate our natural beauty
in
All my cameras worked perfectly and the sun and clouds were
in right places to capture the nature at its best. I was a bit sidetracked to
check potential forest fire on western horizon. I made low passes over the edge
of Mt Savona Provincial Park with spectacular rocky cliffs and top covered with
the first autumn snow. You can see very, very long train snaking along the edge
of
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309. Flying above
Clouds to Ajax Mine and Tobiano, Oct 11, 2020.
Chilly morning at 3C, but sunny day brought smile to my face.
I could fly and enjoy to Covid free time above
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308. My First flight after 2 Month Wait for New
Prop Blade, Oct 6, 2020.
This was my first flight after the August unfortunate mistake
(see Video # 306), which ruined 2
months of my flying days. I also changed this time the prop pitch from 9 to10
degrees. I set it correctly on the ground (when I bought this trike) to prevent
potential engine over revving, but I found that in flight it would run about 500
extra RMP. My cruise speed now increased about 5 kn (10 km/h) at 5000 RPM, but
I have to push the throttle harder. I think my fuel consumption will go up. I
will see the next time during at least one hour flight.
It was short, just local flight, because the sky was still
very smoky from the West coast
307. Dean with his
New Rev X Trike, Aug 15, 2020.
I
came to see in real life the famous
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306. This is
how I Ruined my Flying Days, Aug 2, 2020.
It was ideal weather for flying, but I wished I stayed at
home. Just a few seconds after take off I felt like a wing cable broke off.
Engine started to vibrate. Landed immediately and taxied back to my hangar
where I saw what happened. One bar mitts was on the ground. I removed my winter
bar mitts, because it was already 25C and put them on my rear seat bag. The mitts
are very florescent bright, so they are difficult to miss, but I did. I forgot
them behind my back.I checked for damage and there was just about ¼” of prop
blade edge protection tape slightly damage. Checked the prop pitch values and
the affected pitch was 1 deg off. I figured I got off very easy this time. I
set up the pitch, started the engine and the vibration was the same. Now what?
Hopefully it is not the engine. Eventually I found that the blade was cracked
just on the edge of the blade hub. I was very lucky to be above the runway when
this happened.
305. Pritchard to Kamloops Full Screen Aerial
View, July 28, 2020.
This is just section from flight as per video # 303. It is unedited, full
screen view from just front camera. The best is to watch it on large screen or
TV to appreciate the natural beauty of that region in
304. Sun Peaks Full Screen Aerial View, July 28,
2020.
This is just section from flight as per video # 303. It is unedited, full
screen view of
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303. Flying to Sun Peaks and Chase
Village, July 28, 2020.
My first really warm flying, because it was already 19C at 7
am. It was even 19 C at 2334 m (7625’). The sky was very hazy which looked even
worse while flying against the raising sun. I made several passes over the
302.
Flying
Savona, Tunkwa Lake, Face Lake, Chuwhels Mt, Knutsford, July 20, 2020.
This was my 3rd attempt to do the above loop.
Finally sky was clear and conditions just right. It was very pleasant and
relaxing trip. I am just showing snippets from this 136 km long flight, over
very spectacular countryside. The terrain is very divers and complex. It is
always pleasure to look around from the eagle perspective.
301.
Flying to
Barriere BC and Back over North Thompson River, July 17, 2020.
155 km long trip to small town Barriere about 60 km north of
300.
Flying to
Harper Ranch via Cold Creek with some Clouds to Enjoy, July 13, 2020.
I was anxious to try my new drag chute camera. I tried it the
previous day, but the view angle was disappointing. I made new camera bracket
which did its work. I was also anxious, because potential negative effect on
flying characteristic. The camera is attached to “badminton style” basket and
pulled on string attached to one side of the wing. This causes unsymmetrical
directional force, resulting, as one pilot described, difficult to control in
straight direction. I did not find any problems.
My plan was to fly to
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299. Flying to Kamloops Downtown, Knutsford and
Dew Point Areas. Heavy Turbulence, July 12, 2020.
Typical
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298.
Checking
Flooded South Thompson River in Kamloops, July 5, 2020.
I flew about 1500’ feel above ground to see the effect to the
river flood. I started about 6 km east of
297.
Flying to
Tobiano, Savona and Tunkwa Lake with Nice Clouds, July 5, 2020.
Beautiful day to be in the open air. It was still on colder
side at 11 to 12C around 8 am, but sky was blue and eventually I met some
fluffy clouds to enjoy. I had to change my original plan due to heavy and very
intimidating cloud in front of me. It was very peaceful flight.
296.
Flying to
Savona in Turbulent and Hazy Air, July 3, 2020.
My original plan was to fly triangular cross-country, but the
poor flying conditions changed my plan. I completed just one side of the
triangle and decided to fly back. It started as beautiful and sunny morning,
but the sky changed to overcast and very hazy before I got ready. I expected no
turbulence, because thermal changes were very small. I was wrong. My trip
turned few times and instantly from peaceful to nasty rides. I cut it short,
because I did not want to push my luck.
I have still very good video with very good background music
which will lift your feet in its rhythm.
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295. Flying across Nicola Valley to Douglas
Lake, June 18, 2020.
170 km (106 mi) flight over beautiful area of rolling hills,
deep valleys, many lakes and exceptionally green terrain. It is interesting how
green it was. We are living in very dry climate, where everything is normally
brown, except spring and early summer. It is amazing how the nature is rushing
though its life to push itself to display all its beauty in very short period.
My goal was to check the
294. South Thompson River Flooding Part 2 of 2,
June 3, 2020.
This is unedited and complete aerial view from front camera
only. It starts at 17 km east of
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293.
North Thompson
River Flooding Part 1 of 2, June 3, 2020.
This is unedited and complete aerial view from front camera
only. It starts at 28 km north of
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292. Survey of North and South Thompson River Flooding,
June 3, 2020.
Both
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291. Fun with Clouds in Nicola Valley, May 27,
2020.
Beautiful flight, https://youtu.be/LoLslqEodxg
south of
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290. Flying along North Ridge and Flooded Tranquille Farm, May
24, 2020.
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289. Flying to Knutsford, Ajax and Flooded Tranquille Farm, May
19, 2020.
288. My Trike in the Air, May 19, 2020.
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287. Flight from Kamloops to Brigade Lake, May 14, 2020.
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286. Flight from Merritt to Kamloops, May 8, 2020.
285. Flight from Kamloops to Merritt BC, May 8, 2020.
284. Flight from Kamloops to Cache Creek, May 1, 2020.
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283. Flight from Buse Hill to Kamloops, Uncut Version. Apr 19,
2020.
282. Flight to Buse Hill, Apr 19, 2020.
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281. How to Set up SPOT to be Ready in Emergency with only the
Last Track.
280. Kamloops from 10,000’ above Airport, Apr 9, 2020
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279. Short Flight with Fuel Problem, Apr 6, 2020
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278. Unnoticed Flock of Geese in my Landing Area, March 20, 2020
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277. Kamloops to Cache Creek Area, March 20, 2020
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276. Kamloops to Campbell Rd Valley, March 17, 2020
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275. Nothing but Turbulence, March 9, 2020
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274. Short, but Turbulent Flight in Noon Heating. March 9, 2020
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273. Low Level Flying by North Ridge. Long Version from just
Front Camera, March 1, 2020
Pictures 1 Pictures 2
272. Low Level Flying by North Ridge, March 1, 2020
271. Squadron of Vernon RV Homebuilts Visiting Kamloops Flying
Club
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270. Good Flight to Harper Mountain and River Valley, Feb 24,
2020
269. Flying Kamloops, Showing Just Turbulence Section, Feb 15,
2020
This video, version 2, is edited so that only
sections with turbulence are shown.
268. Flying Turbulent Kamloops North Ridge, Feb 15, 2020
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267. Flying to Savona and Downtown Kamloops, Jan 27, 2020
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266. Kamloops from the above Clouds, Jan 22, 2020
265. Kamloops Winter Beauty from the Air, Jan 9, 2020
264.
How Wing Trim Works in Flight, Dec
27, 2019
Short video clips from my last flight showing sections when I used the wing speed trim. It shows how the pivot point is moving in flight. You might need to run it several times to see the detail. Watch first time to its end where you will see it in slow motion.
263.
Christmas Flying in Kamloops, Dec 27,
2019
Still cloudy airport area, but blue sky pushed through in many places. While there was no snow on the ground around airport area, the ground was well covered all around us. It was beautiful flight between, under and above clouds under sunny and very blue sky. This area looks (is) so beautiful that it is beyond any description. I am lucky to have this opportunity to see it from the above.
262.
Flying to South Area of Kamloops, Dec 8,
2019
Nice flight to south area of
261.
Flying above Kamloops Clouds, Dec 3,
2019
It was almost beautiful day, but heavy
clouds were hanging in the
260.
Short Experimental Flight Backward, Nov
25, 2019
In my previous video, # 259, I was
showing possibilities to kick back the Rotax 912 engine to run in reverse.
Reverse running engine also produces backward force, because the prop is
running in reverse. This is not very efficient way due to the prop leading and
thicker edge now becoming trailing edge.
Here is about 2 min video showing my experiment, where
I demonstrate that it could fly in reverse. I am some-what luckier than many
other trike owners, because my wing is tight like drum and there is not a
single wrinkle and flutter. This makes it easier and less risky.
Enjoy the video and let me know what you think.
259.
Beautiful Day, but Unpleasant
Turbulence, Nov 24, 2019
It looks like one of the last days of
flying in above freezing temperature. It was beautiful day, with no ground
wind, but 30 km/h wind just 2,000' above ground. Several times I was surprised
with strong blast of air from nowhere and from ever changing direction.
Eventually it became more peaceful at about 6000'. It was nice flight in this
nature jewel all around us.
I was always thinking how to "drive" my
trike from hangar, without heavy lifting and pushing it. This is problem now
for my steel shoulder after the last year motorcycle accident.
Finally, I figured it out. I was inspired by my first
"car" in 1967, three wheeler converted motorcycle, named Velorex.
It was originally made for handicap people in communist
I tried the same idea with my Rotax 912 and it works.
You could see it in my video. The problem is solved now. I don't want to brag,
but I am very proud of myself. I am surprised that nobody else used this idea
yet.
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258.
Flying over North Thompson River Valley,
Nov 20, 2019
Finally, it was good flying day. I installed all my
GoPro cameras, external batteries, GPS, Spot and another stuff, getting ready
for beautiful weather waiting for me. I could not start it. The battery had not
enough power to start 80 hp engine after below freezing overnight temperature.
I knew already that there is not much life left in it. I move the trike back to
hangar and uninstalled all the stuff again. Drove to downtown to buy battery
and replace it, which is not easy in this trike. I was ready to go again after
about 90 minutes.
It was very pleasant flight with warm sun on my back,
with 5C down to 1C and back to 5C (41F - 34F - 41F). The sun was very close to
horizon, which was not enjoyable result to shine into my face through two
layers of Plexiglas (windshield and helmet). It was very good 90 min flight.
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257.
Seven Years of Trike Flying in Kamloops
in 2.5 Minutes
I took 30 random selected clips from my 7 years flying
in
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256. Flying
with Clouds to Chase via Paul Lake, Nov 3, 2019
I was one of my best flight without any nasty
surprises. Almost 2 hour flight took me over beautiful hills and valleys and
generally pleasure to look at scenery. I tried to bring the mood up with the
Strauss Blue Danube music. This is how I usually feel when the conditions are
right and the flying is pure pleasure. Turn the volume up and enjoy the flight
with me.
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255. Flying
Kamloops-Ajax-Tobiano, Oct 31, 2019
One hour flight around
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254. Flying in Kamloops Fall Colors, Oct 19, 2019
My second day of flying, while day before I went
through some serious turbulence,
this day was my redemption. It was very pleasant flight with some sporadic fluffy
clouds and beautiful fall colors on the ground.
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253. Beautiful
Day, but Unpleasant Turbulence to Fly in, Oct 18, 2019
It was one of those autumn days full of fall colors,
warm, sunny and no wind. It looked like an ideal day to fly. My fall color mood
changed very quickly right out of the gate. It was very bumpy and getting
progressively worse. It took me about 10 min to decide to go with it or chicken
out and fly back. Eventually I did not want to push my luck and turned around.
252.
Perception of Flying Speed from 9,000'
above Ground, Kamloops Oct 6, 2019
30 sec video to show how perceived
flying speed from 3 km (10,000') elevation looks extremely slow, while flying
130-140 km/h
251.
Power off Glide from 10,000', Oct 6,
2019
I wanted to know what my
trike gliding ration is while the engine is off. It took me 20 minutes to climb
to my goal altitude of 10,000' (3088 m). I was climbing up at 600 fpm (3 m/s)
which eventually dropped to 400 fpm (2 m/s) while maintaining constant 5,000
rpm on engine. The drop in vertical speed (performance) is natural, because the
air is getting less dense with altitude. The view was spectacular and I felt
like suspended in the air flying the Space Shuttle. I had practically no
perception of speed from that height, but my ground speed was about 54 kn (100
km/h).
After I cleared with the
control tower that nobody is in any hurry to land, I turned power off. This
flight also gave me appreciation of the wing electric trim. I did not see any
purpose of it when I made initial few flights, but now, I am singing different
tune. It is excellent invention in longer and steady flights like this one. I
trimmed it going up hill so if flew hands off the control bar and the same
going down hill. I trimmed it going down to 50 kn indicated, which is actually
40 kn real, as I discovered in the first flights. It flew hands off and without
unwanted turns or surprises.
It was peaceful downhill at
steady speed covering 10 nm (20 km) distances. I calculated that my trike has
7:1 glide ratio. For every 1000' of elevation I could fly 7000' distance. Of
course it will change with wind against or behind me. This glide ratio is very
impressive for such heavy trike with small and fast wing. I did the similar
test in Apr 2014 with my Airborne trike with Wizard wing (http://youtu.be/cgb7QSM_idw).
I calculated 5:1 glide ratio on that slow trike.
Landing was uneventful and 60
kn (111 km/h). I could not restart the engine after landing, because the
battery run out of juice. When you are in the similar situation you would
appreciate the advantages of classical analog (gauge with needles) instruments
versus all computerized stuff, which need a lot of power. I was prepared for
this situation by carrying battery power pack and connected into the 12 V trike
outlet. I kept all navigation lights, radio, transponder and all digital
instruments on. I thought that the battery pack would be able to supply all
needed power. Obviously it did not. You could see from the video that it was
not big deal when I turned all power off. It was very happy day for me.
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250. Flight to Barriere, BC, Oct
4, 2019
It was one of my best
flights. I wanted to fly originally to
I took different route the
last 15 km before Barriere. I flew above
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249.
Short Flight over Kamloops North and
East Ridges, Oct 1, 2019
Weather forecast called for sunny
day, but it did not happen in that morning. I liked the fluffy low level clouds
around the
I was stressed not about the
flying, but to deal with the problem. When I was about 200 m from the end of
runway we could again communicate by radio. It was not perfect, but at least I
could apologize for the bloody radio. I was not very keen to deal with it right
a way, but I am glad that I did. I concluded that it must be antenna and it
was. The mini coaxial connector was unscrewed. The cable still worked in short
distance as antenna, but not very far. I reconnected the cable and wrapped it
in electric tape to prevent it from happening again. It really made my day. I
was so happy that I found it. It was good day and the video shows it.
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248.
Second Flight that Day to Knutsford
Area, Sep 30, 2019
It was beautiful day, but
very bumpy especially in the South of Kamloops. I was looking for different
layer for some peaceful flying conditions, but no luck. I just relaxed and
tried to like it. I have good video.
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247.
Short Flight over Kamloops North Ridge,
Sep 30, 2019
It was perfect weather (it
looked like), but my camera quit shortly after take off. I turned back to reset
it.
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246.
Flying over Kamloops North Ridge, Sep 6,
2019
The main reason for this
flight was to take aerial picture after devastating fire of the local school
the previous day. The school was totally destroyed. Unfortunately I took off
with camera without memory card and on top of that I forgot to turn the front,
full view camera on. Oh, well, at least I had very good local flight.
245.
Flying to Sun Peaks, Mt Lolo and NW
Ridge, Sep 1, 2019
I was trying new camera mount
on the trike nose, so there is no picture interference with any part of trike. This
front view is run at 4 to 6x faster with perceives speed of 500 to 700 km/h.
I did very good aerial survey
of the
I crossed Mt Lolo, with a bit
of turbulence and then scanned the hills of the NE of Kamloops Lake. This 1:40
hr flight is compressed into 3:50 min video.
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244. Practicing
Landings at Kamloops Airport , August 26, 2019
Short video showing several take-offs
and landings in Apollo DeltaJet2 trike.
243.
Flying from Kamloops to Logan Lake and
Merritt via Hwy 97C, August 19, 2019
Another long distance flight (177 km) to explore
242.
Flying from Kamloops to Highland Valley,
Ashcroft and Cache Creek, August 7, 2019
I always wanted to fly around the big surface copper
mine in
241. Kamloops
to Harper Ranch, Cold Creek Rd Loop, July 29, 2019
One of the most relaxing flight over spectacular
countryside. This part of
240.
Kamloops Flying to Adams Lake Bay via
Sun Peaks, July 22, 2019
One of our flying club members posted few pictures
from his flight over
239.
Kamloops Flying to Isobel Lake and NE
Ridge, July 11, 2019
Friend of mine mentioned camping at
238.
My Record Flight to Molybdenite Peak,
July 3, 2019
Several years ago I watched YouTube video showing
group of
I had very few hours of sleep thinking of all those
"what if" possibilities. I got up at 4:30 am and was in the air at 5:55
am. Dressed in my full winter gear, I was really hot in already sunny, 14C,
morning. There was up to 18 km/h (10 kn) head wind, but otherwise very relaxing
flight. It was not easy to take pictures, because big contrast between sunny
and shady areas from the low sun position. I was stunned to see the beauty of
the eastern part of the
I landed safely at the
My record longest and potentially the most dangerous
flight so far.
Distance: 278 km (173 mi, 150 nm)
Max Elevation: 3,557 m (11,670')
Moving time: 2:40 hr
Max Ground Speed: 148 km/h (92 mph, 80 kn)
237.
Flying to Knouff Sullivan Lake Area, June
9, 2019
Six days before, I was driving my motorcycle to Knouff Lake Recreation Area
and I was very impresses with the nature beauty there. I decided to check it
out from the air too. It was very nice flight, but the better view from the
ground. It looks from the air much flatter then from the ground.
236. Flying
to Savona to Check the Wild Fire Situation There, June 6, 2019
Walking on the street previous day, I noticed black
smoke on western horizon. Oh no! No forest fire again. Media reports were not
very favourable with statements like double in size, out of control...
The morning was crisp, with just 8C and sunny sky. I decided
to fly west to see how bad the fire situation is NW of Savona. Actually, I was
very surprised that the fire was out, but still with some smouldering patches
and very close to the forest. I could see small burned patch and father west
large burned area. It was obvious that it was deliberately set by someone. The
first smaller patch was very far away from the train track separated by very
dry grass and wide road. This fire could not start by train. It is mad-mad
world.
235. Kamloops
COPA Flights for Kids, June 1, 2019
Kamloops Flying Club organized "
234. How
Trike Works and How to Mount Flight Cameras, May 30, 2019
I did similar video with my Airborne Trike in Feb 2017. I had many
very good responses, so I decided to follow up with my new trike, but with
emphasis on camera mounting basics. It shows how trike is controlled,
instrumentation, how to make camera mounts, how to mount them to prevent
vibration, best angle of view, how to set camera to be parallel with horizon in
level flight... All comments ale welcome.
233. Short
Flight to West of Kamloops North Ridge, May 30, 2019
My flight ended just after 20 min. It was early morning
at 15C, no wind, but very hazy day. We were getting smoke from our neighbouring
province
232. Flying
on the Edge of North Ridge West and East of Kamloops, May 27, 2019
I made another beautiful flight just north of
231. Flying
from Kamloops to Falkland - Westwold - Monte Creek and Kamloops, May 21, 2019
I made several attempts in the past to fly to
230.
Flying from Merritt to Kamloops, May 6,
2019
This is return flight continuation of the previous
video. During short pit stop at Merritt airport, I changed all 4 cameras
batteries and enjoyed and bit the beautiful blue sky and crispy clear air in
the beautiful region. I decided to head home, before the nature would change
its mood. I more-less followed the famous Coquihalla (TV series Highway to
Hell) north to
229.
Flying from Kamloops to Merritt Airport,
May 6, 2019
I started early morning to prevent
I was up in the air at 6:30, heading for Merritt
airport. I chose longer, but very scenic way through the
I just bought another GoPro camera (6th now), this
time Hero 7 Black. Black has nothing to do with color. It is the confusing type
of camera features in this sequence: White, Silver and Black which is the most
advanced. I was very impressed with the camera result. The Stabilization if
phenomenal and it works exactly how it supposed work for use with aircrafts or
boats on waves. The background in steady, but the foreground subject is moving.
When you have camera on the wing then in turbulence you are moving against the
background. Normally background would be moving while you are fixed in one
point on the screen. I was doing this in pos-processing software, which took
2.5 hours for every 20 min of video. Now, all this is done in real time in such
small device like GoPro. Very impressive. I was hesitant to buy it, because the
original Stabilization had one negative which I call, Over-stabilization. You
could see this effect even on TV made by professional cameras. When panning
moving object then the result is jerky. I my case when used during take off or
landing the undercarriage was separated from the trike and catching up and
falling behind. I bought the camera as soon as heard from my fellow trike FB
friend that GoPro fixed this phenomenon.
228.
Flying from Salmon Arm to Kamloops,
April 26, 2019
After about 40 minutes in Salmon Arm airport I took
off towards the
I was too far from my original route, so I took
shortcut across the mountain again. I wanted to avoid this route, because I did
not like the turbulence there. The turbulence was waiting for me.
I took side trip to Chase village on the
227.
Flying to Salmon Arm, April 26, 2019
This video is from my first leg of two hour flight to
Salmon Arm (SA) airport and back. I decided to fly almost straight line between
226. Flying
to Tobiano and Savona to Test Wing GoPro on 3x Stabilizer, April 14, 2019
I was waiting a long time to test again the Gimbal
Stabilizer FY-WG X3 with GoPro wing camera. I tested this mechanical stabilizer in 2016 with disappointing
results, when batteries quit in just 12 minutes at -3C. It was a bit better
this time with 30 min running time at +3C, but still very short of spec 3 to 4
hours. I will try again in summer. The result is very good and much more
interesting relation between the trike and background.
225. My
Record Flight to Dunn Peak, the Highest Peak in Kamloops Region, March 30, 2019
I was always intrigued by the snowy peak on very
distant northern horizon. I was very close to this region in Oct 29, 2018, when
flying to
The conditions were ripe for very good flight at 9:30
am, with blue, but hazy morning sky and +6C. Just before I strapped myself into
my bird, I was visited by my flying club buddy. He told me about his nasty
experience with extreme turbulence while flying his regular airplane there.
This stacked in my head, especially, when in that mountain range. I was flying
in the final stage at 11,175', well above the peak elevation of 8,600' to avoid
the mountain turbulence. I stayed on the up wind side of mountain only and
chickened out to fly around, hearing in my head his story of 1,000'/min
downdraft.
It was very good flight without any surprises. It was
another milestone flight with these, for me, record setting values:
Distance: 184 km (114 mi)
Max Elevation: 3,406 m (11,175')
Delta elevation 3,053 m (10,015')
Average Speed: 116 km/h (72 mph)
Time: 1:35
Temper -6C to +8C (21 F to 46 F)
224. Flight
to Second Largest Ski Area in Canada, March 20, 2019
It was truly spring day. I took off from
It was very pleasant flight with just small section
with turbulence; otherwise I could listen to music and daydream. Actually, I
was fully alert and waited for some nasty
I adjusted the angle of view of my camera mounted on
the broomstick. The view looks good. This low tech camera mount was surprisingly
very sturdy and fast to make. It would not win any industrial design price, but
it cost nothing and worked perfectly. I cannot say the same about the GoPro
overpriced mounts, which are good enough, but no good for my videos. I had to
modify them to prevent vibrations.
223.
Kamloops Flight Following North Thompson
River, March 17, 2019
Another short flight to test my homemade camera mount,
but mainly if the view would be interesting to watch. It appears that my broom
stick camera mount and its attachment to the wing struts worked well with
practically no vibration. I will leave to viewers to answer the question
whether the camera view is interesting. The next time I will turn the camera
more forward facing to capture the scenery too.
It was the first day of this winter season, when I was
actually hot during the flight. Yahoo!
222.
Kamloops Flight to North Ridge, March
17, 2019
Just short flight with my new camera mount and 360
Master Vision camera. It was disappointing test, because camera quit recording
just after only 2 minutes. The camera manual says that it should be operated
above 7C. The temperature was 3C to 6C. Obviously, that camera did not like it.
I landed and installed GoPro camera to give me another angle of view. You could
see the result in the next video.
221.
Kamloops Flight to Downtown, Nicola
Valley, Ajax, March 13, 2019
Beautiful day with now wind, ideal conditions to have
pleasant flight. After take off I realized that I forgot my camera on the back
seat. I had to turn around to retrieve it. Right after take off I noticed that
this flight might not be very relaxing. The air was bumpy and the bumpiness was
steady increasing during the flight. I also noticed when flying over the
Knutsford area, that I did not buckled up after my camera retrieval. The flying
conditions were not ideal for hands off flying. It took me two attempts to
secure myself in the seat again. This was big relieve for me!
I had to change my original flight plan twice, due to
the snow/rain in the areas where I was planning to go. I am very allergic to
such combination of blue sky with cold clouds nearby. This always brings very
nasty and sudden winds in
220.
Kamloops Flight North Ridge, Tobiano,
Afton Mine, March 9, 2019
I took advantage of the first warm and sunny day of
2019. Ground temperature was +2C and -6C in the air. I explored still snow
covered country side around
219.
One Hour Winter Flight around Kamloops,
March 6, 2019
One hour pleasant flight in the first above the freezing
temperature. Beautiful views of hilly areas covered with show on North sides,
while brown on the sunny sides.
218.
Kamloops Loop Flight, March 1, 2019
It was almost nice day and especially after unusually
cold weather in
217.
Kamloops Local Flight, Feb 15, 2019
Finally! It was almost warm at -5C. We had unusually
cold and windy 2 weeks of weather. This day the sun was peeking through after
about 6 cm of fresh snow. After clearing snow from my long access road to
runway, I decided to take my bird for some fresh air. It was beautiful flight
with no wind or turbulence. I flew just around
216. Flying
above Beautiful Kamloops NW Ridge, Jan 21, 2019
The second sunny day required to take your bird up. I
was following Kamloops North Ridge east and west. With practically now ground
wind, it was blowing around 70 km/h at 6,500'. The flight was very enjoyable
and uneventful until I noticed that my seat belt was unbuckled (again). The
buckle opens by just lifting its latch. I have camera around the neck and
resting practically on that seat belt buckle. Most likely, I accidentally pull
the buckle latch when grabbing the camera with my clumsy winter glove.
Regardless, I had to buckle up again in the air. While doing it, the control
bar suddenly and unexpectedly surged (moved) forward, into, I think, stall
position. If you don't have patience to watch whole movie then skip to 3 min
and watch it in normal and slow motion. I would like to hear from you experts
some explanation, what really happened there.
215. Flying
to Chase Village over Beautiful Mountains, Jan 20, 2019
It was beautiful, crispy day at about -2C to -6C. I
was flying east from
214. First Snow in Kamloops Flying, Dec 27, 2018
I like when ground is covered by the first snow, but
not everything is white yet. The terrain looks much better in that contrasts between
the white snow and dark roads, streets and slopes.
It was good flying day.
214.
Short Flight over Kamloops North Ridge,
Dec 15, 2018
I woke up into blue sky, no wind and above freezing
temperature. I checked, as always, all my weather application, including
Environment Canada Weather (EC) forecast. EC showed 5C and 30 km/h wind for
every hour, including my wakening hour with absolutely no wind. This government
site has the most useless weather information. It is obvious that during the
sunny day the temperature will go up. All other weather applications were
showing 5 to 10 km/h wind and of course variable temperatures per each hour. So
I took a chance and went flying. I made just 40 min loop, because the EC
forecasted 30 km/h wind was haunting me. I tested my newly installed electric
carburetor heaters, which will give me more confidence in my machine in winter.
Frozen carburetor in
212.
Worst Turbulence Ever from Control Bar
Cameras, Nov 28, 2018
This is almost full turbulence captured by the control
bar cameras. It shows how bad (for some not too bad) it really was. It is part
of the video # 210
211.
Worst Turbulence Ever from Wing Camera,
Nov 28, 2018
This is almost full turbulence captured by the wing
camera without too much of editing. It shows how bad (for some not too bad) it
really was. It is part of the video # 210
210.
Short Kamloops Flight in the Worst
Turbulence Ever, Nov 28, 2018
It was beautiful, sunny day with just light wind. I
took off with intention to fly east towards Chase and perhaps further east. In about
5 minutes my plan very quickly and suddenly changed. I was in the worst
turbulence while in command (I was in much worse turbulence in commercial
flight). The up and down bounces were very unpleasant and for me outright
scary. I was in one moment in weightless condition going down with instant kick
back up. The problem was that I took off west, up wind, turned east, down wind
but instead I ended up in very strong up wind. This is the weirdness of
209.
Flying to Deadman Valley and Seat Belt
Problem, Nov 17, 2018
I took off for 130 km loop flight to
At about 5 min into my flight, I noticed that I forgot
to buckle up. Instead of turning around and land, buckle up and take off again,
I made dumb decision to buckle the seat belt in the air (while in bumpy air). I
really struggled with this task (well documented on the video), and it was
serious distracted flying. I will never do it again and I hope I will never
forget again to buckle up in the first place.
208.
Good Turbulence Flying Apollo Trike, Oct
30, 2018
Just 2 min video showing sudden and a bit unpleasant
turbulence during otherwise peaceful flight.
207.
Flying to Kamloops South Ridge,
Knutsford and Sandbars with Major Turbulence, Oct 30, 2018
It was my second flight of that decent flyable day. I
flew SE towards Knutsford airstrip, but still did not dare to land there in
this fast trike and with my low hours time on it.
On the way back towards the airport area I encountered
very sudden, short but a major turbulence. Let's see if you have patience to
wait for it. I never experienced this before: During this bouncing up and down
like garbage bag in the wind, all of the sudden I felt very strong blast of air
from my left side. It totally freaked me out. If anything it should be from the
front and not from the side. Luckily for me it lasted less them minute, but if
definitely perked my attention
I have very nice views of the ever changing river
sandbars, with very complex underwater formations.
206.
Flying to Kamloops North Ridge, North
Shore of Kamloops Lake and Sandbars, Oct 30, 2018
Nice flight into, still for me not known,
205. Flying
to North of Kamloops to Barriere, BC. Oct 20, 2018
The lately, weather is almost every day perfect for
flying, with no wind and turbulence. I flew north to small town on
204.
Flying to Greenstone Mountain and Ajax,
Oct 15, 2018
I set the prop pitch to 9 deg, based on experience
during the previous flight. Everything looked good after take off, so I decided
to fly straight south and uphill to
203.
Short Test Flights by Kamloops Lake
South Shore, Oct 15, 2018
When I was transporting this trike with just 9 hours on
it, I damaged one prop blade. I installed new prop. The original owner told me
that he set the prop pitch to 11.5 deg. I measured the same angle too. I
originally set the pitch of the new prop to 11.5 deg. The static test, (trike
was not flying, but it was reved up on the ground), produced only 4,000 RPM as
versus desired of 5 500 RPM.
Eventually I ended up with 6.5 deg pitch and the
engine produced max 5,400 RPM when not moving.
I noticed during my previous flight, that I could run
the engine at max RPM in just 3/4 of throttle. This could be potentially
dangerous to over rev the engine. I also noticed big difference in max RPM
between static test on the ground and the actual flying. Based on the above I
set the pitch back to 11.5 deg and took off for this flight. The pitch was too
coarse with poor performance and 4,500 RPM max. I turned back and changer the
pitch to 9 deg. It worked well during my following
flight above.
202. My
First Cross Country Flight in Apollo Trike, Oct 14, 2018
It was beautiful fall day so I decided to pull my new
trike and myself through some cross country flight test. I flew to the second
largest ski area in
It was the first time I really appreciated the wing
speed trim and figured out how it supposed to be used. It is very good device
especially in stable air and long flights.
It is interesting to compare my previous Airborne
Trike with the original Wizard wing and this Apollo with Cheval 14 wing. Both
trips measured 135 km (coincidence). The Airborne trip
took 2:13 hours and this Apollo just 1:14 hour. The Apollo is really moving,
but it still looks and feels slow in the air. Basically I do not perceive any
speed difference.
201. My
First Flight after Shoulder Replacement Surgery, Oct 11, 2018
It was the first flight with my steel shoulder. It was
the result of being victim in motorcycle accident 5 months earlier. I feel that
I am getting slowly back to my regular life again. I missed all that warm
flying weather and now I am back into winter clothing again. It was one hour
flight around
192. Sunset
Flight in Smoky Air, July 25, 2018
It was beautiful, but hot (30C) and very smoky
evening. There are many forest fires around us, but luckily far away from
I was wearing light summer jacket with loose sleeves,
which caused a lot of wind vibration transferred into bar mounted cameras. I
ended up with jello effect in my videos
191. Second
Flight in Apollo Trike, July 23, 2018
The morning looked perfect for my second flight in new
Apollo trike. My original plan was much more ambitious then I eventually ended
up with. As soon as I crossed the river to the south side the air become nasty.
High wind a loft and morning heat with temperatures differences of at lease 20C
between shade and sunny sides ruined my flight plan. I concluded that it was too
much for me in just second flight in new trike. I turned back north and stayed
there which felt much better. I made just 30 min flight in my familiar
territory. I got warning to head home when I noticed that east half of our big
lake (closer to me) had glossy water, but the west side looked black and
choppy. It was still good flying day, but not relaxing. The wing trim worked,
but I did not notice much difference or purpose of it. I guess I need more time
and more steady flying conditions to appreciate it.
190.
First Flight in Apollo Trike, July 22,
2018
I received deposit from potential buyer on my
excellent Airborne trike in April 2018. I promised him, that I will not fly it
anymore to preserve its condition as I advertised it. I decided to move one
notch higher in the trike category. I really liked the styling of the Hungarian
made Apollo, DeltaJet2 with Rotax 912 UL. I was very lucky to find one in
Meanwhile, in May15th, I became victim of careless
track driver who pushed me off the road while I was riding my motorcycle. I
lost a lot of skin from my legs, arms and hands. I had torn several muscles and
tendon in left shoulder. My summer fun
was in serious jeopardy, because of my limited left arm mobility. Eventually I
recovered reasonably quickly my skin, but my shoulder has to be replaced. This
flight day was just one weak before the scheduled surgery. I would have to wait
at least 4 months after the surgery, so my flying season will be in serious
trouble. I had to fly my new trike, because I have no idea if this would even
fly and I could not wait any longer.
I was very pleasantly surprised that there was not any
nastiness in the Apollo trike. It handles well and it was only the second trike
(or wing) which I was comfortable with from the first minute. I have to adjust
the pedals which are too close for my legs and fix the electric wing trim. The
fuse burned out. I have to find why. I am expecting very good fun with this toy
189. Flying
Buse Lake Area, April 4, 2018
Beautiful, but bumpy flight to
188.
Flying to Savona and Kamloops Downtown,
March 31, 2018
The ground wind was very light, but up to 38 km/h in
the air. I was considering several times to give up, because the turbulence was
getting unpleasant. I was telling myself to be brave, otherwise I would never
learn to handle this type of situation. It was good flight over this beautiful
countryside here in
This trike is for sale: New wing last spring and
complete engine overhaul last year too. It flies perfectly, but buying a bigger
trike.
187. Nice
Aerial View of Kamloops Area from South and all around, March 17, 2018
Another beautiful flying day. Flew SE to
186. Flying
Loop Harper Mountain - Tobiano, March 11, 2018
It was perfect day for flying with blue sky and above
freezing temperature. I was following Kamloops South Ridge east, then to
185.
Flying to Harper Mountain Ski Resort,
Kamloops, Feb 27, 2018
Another beautiful day for flying: Temperature was
slightly above freezing, sunny, blue sky and very light wind. I could not ask
for anything better than this. I was flying east over the Kamloops North Ridge
towards the second ski resort in
184.
Beautiful Flight over North Ridge Lac Du
Bois Road, Kamloops, Feb 26, 2018
It was beautiful day to explore other areas in
183.
Short Flight over North Ridge Downtown,
Kamloops, Feb 22, 2018
It felt like warmer day, but it was still cold,
particularly on my fingers. I had to pull hands from gloves several times to
fiddle with radio and cameras, which does not help at that speed and in open
freezing air. I made short flight to Mt Peter and Paul, downtown and back to
the airport.
I will be selling this trike, because I am moving into
higher league; I am buying Apollo DeltaJet2 with Rotax 912. It would be difficult
to part with this trike and especially with the engine fully overhauled and new
latest technology wing installed in summer 2017.
182.
Short Flight over North Ridge Downtown
and Sandbars, Kamloops, Jan 13, 2018
The first flight in the new year.
I counted 23 eagles on the ground, trees and one in
flight. It was good flight.
It was cold, -12C, but beautiful and sunny day. Had to
hand shovel snow to get from the hangar to taxiway. I used to fly down to -25C,
but my ultralights were slow to max 50 km/h.
-12C at 110 km/h feels very cold especially on the face and my fingers.
There is an opening in the front bottom of the pod to accommodate the steerable
front wheel. This creates serious and concentrated draft directly into the
face, which is very unpleasant. Even the microphone wind screen sponge froze
solid from my steamy breath. I had to raise my voice to penetrate the ice.
Overall it was very good flight. Actually, by default,
the flying in winter is more pleasant then in summer, because usually there is
no turbulence to worry about.
180.
Flight to Mt Peter and Paul, Downtown
and Sandbars, Kamloops, Dec 4, 2017
Very nice but cold flight to very scenic
179.
Flight with Clouds, Kamloops, Nov 17,
2017
It was perfect day for flying: Stable air, sunny with
fluffy clouds and +5C. I like to fly "with" clouds, which is above, below
and around them, but I never dared to fly into them, yet. Right now it is
enough to fly under them and to feel their effect. I followed the North Ridge
east to Harper mountain area;
178. Flight
around Kamloops Lake, Oct 27, 2017
I had so much fun a day before that I decided to do
the same again this morning. It was on cooler side (5C) and a bit haze in the
air, but still beautiful day to fly. I decided to fly around
177. Flying
above Nicola Valley Clouds, Kamloops Oct 26, 2017
It vas a crispy morning which allowed me to fly in
beautiful,
176. Cold
and Unpleasant Turbulent Flight, Kamloops Oct 23, 2017
This morning with no ground wind and 5C looked too
good not to go flying. The first part was uneventful until I wanted to take a
picture and realized that my
I experienced the effect of cold and warm areas from
deep shade in valley on north side and warm sunny side on the other side of the
ridge. This was coupled with the 18 km/h upper wind blowing over the ridge. It
was wild ride.
It was short flight, because I am getting wimpy and
less tolerant to the low temperatures. Now -5C is too cold for me while in
175a. Turbulence
between Mt Peter and Mt Paul from 3 Cameras Views, Oct. 11, 2017
Short clip from flying in turbulence between Mt Peter
and Mt Paul. It shows the same locations from 3 cameras consecutively.
175. Short
Local Flight in Beautiful Cloudy Sky, Kamloops Oct 11, 2017
The summed disappeared so fast. After almost month vacation,
I had an urge to fly again. The sky was covered by very heavy but beautiful
clouds, which would be perfect for picture taking. Unfortunately, I forgot my
camera. I had a few bumps on my way, but nothing extraordinary. Only the
landing was not as I would like, actually it was bad in my books. The landing
actually looked much better on video (even in slow motion) then during my
landing.
174. Flying
in Kamloops with Cathy, Aug 27, 2017
This was another milestone in my flying life. It was
the first time ever that I carried a passenger. Cathy Montgomery, ultralight
flying instructor from
I noticed, when editing this video, that Cathy was on
her edge before our landing. She grabbed the control bar cables and she was
ready to interfere if needed. It was not necessary as I was in full control and
confident in my abilities. It was good flight.
173. Flying
in Kamloops in Rough Turbulence, Aug 25, 2017
The weather was very tempting to go flying. Normally,
I would try to avoid flying in the afternoon heat, because it could be nasty in
172. Flying
to Savona to Check Forest Fires, Aug 18, 2017
I took off at 7am west into no wind. I was following
the south shore of the
I was pushed by some serious tail wind at 45 km/h (~29
MPH) with my ground speed of 145 km/h (90 MPH) on the way back. There was no
wind when I arrived to the
I flew several times around the ever increasing sand
bars (summer low water level in the river). Visited downtown, with some heat
turbulence ride.
I stopped at the airport fire prevention aircraft base
for selfies and pictures of the water tanker aircrafts. Overall, it was good
day for me.
171. Flying
in Kamloops in Very Smoky Sky, Aug 12, 2017
We lost our mountains for about 2 weeks to numerous
forest fires in our province. Visibility and air quality was extremely poor to
dangerous. Airport was closed for several days, because of very dense smoke.
Finally, there was some hope. The mountains started to
appear around us again and I was hoping that it would be much clearer higher
up. Unfortunately, I was wrong. The visibility and smoke smell was getting
worse further east and higher I flew. I had to change my plan from cross
country to just low flying around the airport. It was good flight with very
smooth air, so nothing, video exciting happened during this flight. The water
level in our rivers is low so I could fly again above the growing and ever changing
sand bars.
170. Sixth
Annual Pacific Northwest Trike Fly-in of Trikes near Sandpoint ID, USA, July
27, 2017
I droved 650 km my motorcycle from
I chose different road to go back up to
169. Flying
to Sun Peaks, July 25, 2017
This was another milestone in my flying career. I flew
almost straight line over the hills to
168. Flying
to Greenstone Mountain and Savona, July 12, 2017
It was extremely smoky in
167. Flying
to Cache Creek Airport, July 5, 2017
It was another, 133 km long, cross country flight to
small airport in Cache Creek. I took off at 7 am in already 26C temperature and
no wind in
I spent several minutes at the airport, took several pictures,
replaced batteries in all my four cameras, and headed back to
I stopped by WW2 bomber
B25, which was visiting from
166.
Canada Day Flying in Kamloops, July 1,
2017
It was a special day for
I then flew over
165. Flying
to Ajax, Knutsford, Downtown and North Ridge Chasing Clouds, June 17, 2017
After I adjusted the camera bracket (see previous
video # 164), I went up again to
164. Flying
to West of Tobiano to Check the Nature, June 17, 2017
I went for hike and discovered spectacular scenery few
km west of golf resort in Tobiano on
163. Checking
Kamloops Overflowing Thompson Rivers, June 4, 2017
It has been annual ritual to go to see swollen North
and South Thompson rivers in their
162.
Knutsford Flying Club BBQ, June 3, 2017
Knutsford
Fly-in-BBQ by Thompson Valley Sport Aircraft Club members
161. Kamloops
Flying Club Fly-in-Breakfast, May 27, 2017
160. My
Length Record Flight from Kamloops to Salmon Arm, May 26, 2017
Well, finally I did it. I decided to fly to Salmon Arm
municipal airport, true test of my new, 50% faster, "Northwing Quest
GT5" wing. I woke up early to perfectly sunny and no wind day. I pulled
Salmon Arm airport info (GPS, elevation, radio frequency and runway numbers),
packed my 4 cameras, 3 GPS, bunch of spare batteries, 20 L of extra mixed fuel
in canister and in about 40 minutes I was ready to go. The day was perfect and
about 17C, but I still dressed in my full winter gear. It is not fun to be cold
and no way to change it. I was glad I did that. I was taking short cut over to
mountains and there was still snow under me at 6000'.
The only negative was very low rising sun blasting
into my face and very hazy day. We had a lot of rain this month and several
very hot days causing all that moist air hanging low above ground. It was not
easy to take good pictures in these bluish conditions.
I made it to Salmon Arm with no problem, just too many
flying people and no traffic control which I am not use to anymore. Finally, I
found slot to drop in. It was hot already, so I had to unpeel my winter
clothes. One pilot offered me coffee, used toilet, visited one fellow,
exchanged few questions about my flying machine, changed batteries in cameras,
GPS and topped my fuel. After 45 min I was in the air again for my trip home
100 km away. I was glad to have my GPS, because I was flying in wrong
direction, because my head compass (in my brain) flipped over again. It took me
about 3 minutes to synch my head compass with the GPS. Very few bumps when
crossing the peak reminded me that it is not over until it is over. The rest of
the flight was more pleasant with sun off my face. The true flying time was
2:10 hr for 197 km. This is very good for cross country flying. My engine RPM
went up now from 4300 to about 5100, but the fuel consumption is almost the
same at about 10 L/h. This indicates that the wing is much more efficient and
cuts better through the air. The wing is pleasant to fly in a still air, but
heavy in bumps and manoeuvres. It does not like to be pushed around. It has
direction control delay, which could cause serious over control to beginner
when used to more responsive wing. My best behaving trike was Sabre 340. The
wing was perfect and extremely pleasant to fly the first minute. I cannot say
that about my Wizard, Streak and this GT5. These need time to like them and
eventually love them.
159. Still
Testing New Wing and Old is Sold, May 20, 2017
I moved the wing hang post about 1/8" back (see my previous video), as I determined during
my last flight. This time the setting was perfect. I watched the videos from my
previous flights, looking for the answer to why I had a hard time to take off:
I was not pushing the control bar far enough before the lift off. I pushed it
the same way as with the Wizard wing without even thinking about this step.
This time my first and any other after take offs were as normal as they should
be, with the bar a bit far forward. I am still too hot on landings and looking
for that magic sweet spot on my speed indicator.
I had beautiful morning flight. When I came back, my
Face book friend from
158. Short
Flight NW Area of North Ridge with Rough Landing, May 18, 2017
I am still trying to fine tune my new Northwing GT5
wing. Moved the wing hang point another 3/8" forward and I felt that this
is too much. I will back it up about 1.8".
It was sunny, warm, no wind and no scary clouds in the
afternoon, just perfect day for flying. The scenery is always spectacular in
I could cause this air movement, because sometimes
even bird can trigger the warm/cold air to move. Everything is in balance,
until the warm air cannot stay still any more or something pushes the worm air
into motion. Warm air above the runway suddenly rises up and it is replaced by
cold air from the North Ridge, which flows horizontally from north.
157. Wing
Test Flight, May 14, 2017
After I just finished previous flight (video #156), I moved the wing (hang
glider) hang point 0.5" forward to increase the cruise speed to specified
level between 88 and 105 km/h (55-65 MPH). My speed was 74 km/h (46 MPH). I
test flew over the NW Ridge and I was very happy with 85 km/h (53 MPH) which is
very close to its minimal cruise speed range. I will fly this way for at lease
another hour and then move the hang point by another 0.25". So this is my
plan for a near future. I have to find some GoPro attachment for my wing view;
looking for some idea and solution.
I witnessed, and it is documented in this video, very
interesting nature twist. Two days previously (video #155) I flew over the Tranquille
Creek with very high water level. Normally this is just a wimpy creek. The
creek looked to me totally dry this time while flying over at 9:11 am. This
looked strange, because there was always some water, even in deep, hot and dry
summer. Ten minutes after, on my way back (at 9:22 from picture time), the
creek water was again spilled over its banks. How is this possible?
156. Flying
to Cross Country to Walhachin Area, May 14, 2017
Started early morning to avoid any major turbulence. I
had to scrape ice form my car window, which is very unusual for
155. Testing
my New Wing from North Wing, Quest GT5, May 12, 2017
It was long process since Dec 2016. I took advantage
of the North Wing Christmas discount and ordered their latest model with high
performance numbers, Quest GT5. It took 5 month to get it, because it had to be
test flown by local dealer. He was in mercy of weather and other delays.
Anyway, it is on my Airborne trike and this is the first video. So far I did
not find any suitable bracket to mount a wing camera, so I used only control
bar cameras.
I made 3 take off and landings and then I went for it. It was definitely different from anything I flew so far. During and after just one hour of flight I must say that it was a bit intimidating. This is not wing for beginners. Ease of handling, better control and experience in turbulence as book says... Not at all. I would say just opposite. I had to put much more hours on it, before I will fly some cross country. The video shows that there is no difference, or it feels worse while flying in turbulence in comparison with my previous Wizard wing. Only a time will show if I will master it. I am committed, because I spent fortune on it, so there is no turning back for me.
154. Following
Campbell Creek Upstream to See Flooding, May 9, 2017
Flying over
153. Flying
by following South Ridge and North Ridge on Return, Apr 30, 2017
It started as very interesting day with some low
clouds as a residue from the previous rainy day. This gave me an opportunity to
fly over them while following South Ridge east. The wind was very low and
predictable with only mild turbulence. I crossed the
152. Flying 30 km North from
Kamloops Airport, Apr 25, 2017
I always wanted to fly straight north over the not
very emergency-situation-friendly terrain. Finally I had enough confidence in my
equipment to do it. It was almost continual uphill from 1200' to 7000', from
15C to -2C and snow covered terrain. The first half of the flight north was
very beautiful, but the second portion was not very photogenic. Just forest and
logging patches on rolling hills. It was interesting that I was flying north
upwind. When I turned east to
151. Flying
along the North Ridge to East of Kamloops, Apr 21, 2017
Two days before my flight, the weather forecast said
that the wind will diminish from strong, gusty and from East to no wing at 10
am. I was ready at 9:30, waiting for the wind to get reasonable. Exactly, 10 am
the wind stopped, slowly turned around 180 deg, but still below 10 km/h.
Practically, no wind and the sun cooking, created very unstable thermal
conditions. As I am used to it, I actually enjoyed some of those thermal bumps.
The
150. Flying
to Tobiano and North Ridge, Apr 14, 2017
It was an exceptional morning: warm, no wind and sunny.
I decided to fly to Tobiano Golf course residential area. Several kilometres
west of Tobiano I crossed
149. Flying
to Mt Peter and Paul, North Ridge and River Sand Bars, Apr 3, 2017
I used 3 GoPro cameras, but strangely all quit as soon
as I started. I eventually resurrected just the wing camera.
It was very turbulent flight, but the aerial view
always compensate for any hardship I suffer.
148. Flying
to Ajax, Knutsford and Kamloops Downtown, Feb 27, 2017
It was no wind, but just trace of sun. It felt cold at
- 2C. I guess I am not use to it anymore. I used to fly down to -25C. I flew to
and over the
147. Flying
over Kamloops Downtown and South Ridge, Feb 22, 2017
After missing several days of beautiful weather to fly,
Feb 22, 2017 was the day. I finally received a water pump gasket to prevent the
coolant leak. I replaced it, install all gadget, like three GoPro cameras, two
GPS, Spot satellite tracker, radio. I was ready to enter that beautiful day
again. It was so peaceful at the airport. Warm, sunny, snow almost gone and no
wind. When I was strapping in, a commercial pilot called to inform us that
there is very unsettled weather nearby, with rain and snow. I looked up and I
saw those beautifully ugly clouds within about 10 km E, NW and W. I took off W
and turn left following the sun and South Thompson River to
I was doing some chores around the trike and in the
hangar and enjoying the sunny and warm day. In about 2 hours, all hell broke
suddenly. The wind was blowing abut 70-80 km from N, 90 deg crosswind. I had
hard time to close my 4 panel, large hangar doors due to the wind blowing into
them, while still sunny. Yes, that is typical
146. How
Trike (Motorized Hang Glider) Works, Feb 13, 2017
One of my YouTube subscribers asked me to make a video
showing how the trike (motorized hang glider) works. I thought that this was a good
idea. My video shows the basic principle of how this simple flying machine
works. It is the easiest flying device learn to fly with just your hands and
now pedals for steering. I never took any flying lessons and I learned to fly
hang glider on my own in just couple hours (https://youtu.be/VeuHVEn6BhY). From that I
progressed to motorized hang gliders, which was very easy and natural process.
No instruction or video to see how it supposed to work.
145. Flying
Kamloops North Ridge, Mt Peter & Paul, Frederick, Feb 13, 2017
Finally, after so much of snow and cold weather we had
a beautiful flying day. I flew NE of airport to Mt Peter & Paul then back
west following the North Ridge. Flew over Mara Hill and then NE shore of
144. Few
Minutes of Unpleasant Turbulence in Kamloops, Jan 22, 2017
This is just turbulence section from my flight and my
video #143. It was kicking. It is very well captured with my camera mounted on
3 axes gyroscopic stabilizer. The horizon is stable, but I am bouncing. Check
this out.
143. Winter
Flying in Kamloops North Ridge, Mt Peter & Paul in Turbulent Air, Jan 22,
2017
The weather was almost the same as the previous day (https://youtu.be/59HTNObHCpw),
except of very strong and sometimes unpleasant turbulence. The wind was very
light, but the air bounced me very often up and down. The worst place was
between Mt Peter & Paul. I was pushed into downdraft and violent kicks. My
radio acted again. Eventually I found that the camera gyro RC caused the radio
interference.
I am pleased
with overall performance and especially video result of my 3 axes gyro
stabilizer. It saves me several hours of video processing to get the similar result:
"The horizon is fixed and aircraft is moving". Almost all aviation
videos, even commercial, are from cameras fixed to the aircraft. This produces
not natural effect: "Aircraft is fixed and horizon is moving." See my
test video of fixed horizon here: http://youtu.be/GT1MQhoJxK8
I was good, but not very relaxing day.
142. Winter
Flying in Kamloops North Ridge, Jan 21, 2017
Finally temperature was above freezing after several
weeks of unusually cold weather. Unfortunately, the sun was gone before I was
ready. I received even several drops of rain, which was potentially not very
good for my unsealed cameras.
I wanted to try my new remote control for the camera
(GoPro 3+) gyroscopic stabilizer. The RC did not work properly and it created a
lot of static in my radio. I had very poor communication with the tower due to
the noise bursts. I eventually discovered the next day that it was not my
radio, but the RC. It was decent flight over out beautiful country site.
141.
Using 3 Axis Gimbal Stabilizer, with
GoPro Bar Camera, Dec 27, 2016
The camera view does not look too impressive, unless
it would be placed up front and facing back or the other way around. The stabilizer
was sometimes "hunting" around vertical axes at about +/- 3 deg,
which is annoying.
Stabilizer FY-WG X3 has 3 gyroscopes and could be
mounted on helmet too. I used "GoPro Hero3+ Silver" camera with this
stabilizer.
140. Using
3 Axis Gimbal Stabilizer, with GoPro Wing Camera, Dec 27, 2016
The camera view looks interesting, but there are some
negatives too. The stabilizer was sometimes "hunting" around vertical
axes at about +/- 3 deg, which is annoying.
Stabilizer FY-WG X3 has 3 gyroscopes and could be
mounted on helmet too. I used "GoPro Hero3+ Silver" camera with this
stabilizer.
139. Flying
to Mt Peter & Paul and Chasing Clouds, Dec 10, 2016
After about 10 days of suddenly cold weather we got
break. It was sunny, -5C and ground just covered with show. I like these
conditions, because everything looks nicer from the air. The
I flew over bunch of clouds above the Mara Hill. I had
fun there. I even forgot that my fingers are really getting numb. It was good
day
138. Black
Friday Flying around Kamloops Lake, Nov 25, 2016
Everybody rushed to spent money on Black Friday
specials, but I went for Fun Friday flying tour. It was perfect day to fly in
this beautiful blue sky over our region spectacular scenery. It was another first
for me, because the north side of the
137. Flying
in Kamloops Following North Thompson River to McLure, Nov 16, 2016
A friend asked me to take some pictures in McLure
area. The weather just turned to very good from gloomy a few minutes before. I
jumped into my trike and flew in the coldest day of the year to North. The sky
was beautiful, but just 3 km before the target area, the clouds closed in. The
photo conditions were the worst possible in very big contrasts. Later I learned
that I took pictures of the wrong area. Oh, well, at least I had some fun.
Note: All my videos are taken in 4x3 (1280x960). This
is default setting on all GoPro Cameras. This wide angle of view in vertical
direction is perfect setting for skiing, snowboarding, flying, water sports,
because it captures max possible angle in vertical direction. It shows all from
sky to skis or from sky to what is under me when flying. 16x9 format is cropped
out strips from the top and from the bottom of the existing captured
information, which does not make any sense. These days everybody is going nuts
about 16x9 because all TV are in more less 16x9 format. iPads are in 4x3 format
so my video covers full screen.
My posted videos are converted by YouTube to 16x9, but
1280x720 from original 1280x960. The resulting video has lower resolution then
the original with black strips on left and right. My original video is shrunk
from 1280 x 960 =1228822 pixels per frame to 960 x 720 = 691200 which is only
56% of the original frame resolution. I am not happy about it.
I saved another version of this video in the 16x9
format while I padded sides of the frames with black strips myself while
maintaining the vertical resolution of 960 pixels. I converted it from 1280x960
to 1920x1080 by default
136. Flying
in Kamloops North Ridge and Sand Bars, Nov 14, 2016
It was beautiful day, perhaps the last of relatively
warm autumn days. Fluffy clouds created beautiful spotty patterns on the
rolling hills. I really like these days.
I used my third GoPro camera on the helmet, but the
result is disappointing. There is too much head movement. I wanted to use it mainly
to maintain horizon level in the turns, which is how it should be. The airplane
is tilting while horizon is level. Even in commercial movies the airplane is
horizontal, but the background is tilting, which is not normal.
I will not use head cam anymore. The next time, I have
to find some camera exciting location to mount it.
135. Flying
in Kamloops Following South Thompson River East, Nov 6, 2016
It looked like perfect day for flying: sunny, very few
clouds and no wind. I wanted to fly to Chase, but as soon as I crossed the
North Thompson Rive the turbulence started with wind shifting 180 deg in few
minutes. It was no fun flying, because it was getting continually more intense.
As I did not want to push my luck, I decided to head home. I hope next time
134. Flying
in Kamloops to Rose Hill Rd Area and Sand Bars, Oct 22, 2016
It was nice day to go flying, so I vent. I explored
the area east of Knutsford and found some beautiful places. I used my all road
motorcycle in the afternoon to take also ground pictures, but all roads and
access were private. It was very disappointing.
133. Flying
in Kamloops to North Ridge and South Thompson, Oct 11, 2016
It was cold (8C) sunny morning, total contrast to hot
days just 3 weeks before. I was flying about 10 minutes, when I realized that I
left my camera on the back seat. I was not sure if I will see my popular camera
ever again as there is nothing preventing it from falling out of sky. I turned
very gently to prevent camera to slip out. Luckily, I found it still on that
seat when I landed.
I took off again to North Ridge with intend to fly about
20 km north. The heavy rolling clouds right in my intended path scarred me, so
I turn back south, following the
132. Exploring
Rolling Hills of the North Ridge, Sep 10, 2016
I was filming my contribution to Canada in a
Day in the morning, but the sky was not too impressive. Finally the
sun showed up and with it the flying mood level went up too. I explored
beautiful area of the Kamloops North Ridge with rolling hills and many small
lakes. The surrounding areas of the lakes (slews) turn purple as they drying
out in this time of the year. It is very beautiful there.
131. "Canada
in a Day", Kamloops Flying, Sep 10, 2014
This is short video of my story as Canadian. It is my
contribution to CTV campaign to collect as many videos as possible from people
documenting what they are doing on Sep. 10, 2016
130.
Flying to Downtown, Mt Paul and NW of
Kamloops Lake, Sep 4, 2016
It looked like almost perfect flying afternoon. I
received few kicks from the Mother Nature right at the start, but eventually
the weather settled down to let me enjoy my time in the air. I flew to downtown
and then north around Mt Paul, where I was knocked down very good be a
downdraft. The rest of the flight following the North Ridge west was just pure
joy. Beautiful, blue sky with heave and interesting clouds made it even more
enjoyable. I flew farthest west then before to have that magnificent view of
the
I ended my trip over the river sand bars which are developing very nicely. The river level is dropping steadily by this time of the year and exposing intricate forms of newly created sand bars. It is really joy to fly over and to have this rare opportunity to see it like that.
129.
Flying to Downtown, Mt Peter and Paul,
North Ridge and Sand Bars, Aug 20, 2016
Just needed my flying fix. One hour flying in
128. Flying
to Buse Hill Again for Close Look of that Beauty, Aug 12, 2016
After my previous flight to Buse Hill area in Aug 1,
2016, I drove my terrain motorcycle there to explore that beautiful region. I was
so impressed that I decided to fly there again for close look. I wish the
camera could capture exactly what human eye can see. I also tried my hand GoPro
strap for some more interesting camera angle views. The result was
disappointing, because the camera is too loose-fitting resulting shaky videos.
The hand signals do not indicate that I got mad; they are used to synch my 3
GoPro cameras.
127. Flying
to Buse Hill, Hwy 97 and Hwy 1 Loop, Aug 1, 2016
It was very calm morning, unusually cold at 15C
compare with previous days at 25C. This was second time trying to fly east
across
126. Happy
Day. Finally Flying to Merritt through Nicola Valley, June 29, 2016
I finally made it. The weather always won over my bravery
during my many unsuccessful attempts to fly through
125. Flying
to North of McQueen Lake and NW Area of North Ridge, June 26, 2016
It was new area for me to fly to, which is not very
engine-out friendly. It is beautiful like all this region of BC. It was one of
the most enjoyable flights, without turbulence.
124. Elusive
Flight to Nicola Valley, June 7, 2016
Another attempt to fly through the
I took off from
123. My
Dream Gyrocopter Flight Penticton - Oliver - Osoyoos - Penticton, May 30, 2016
My big, about 45 year old dream to owe and fly a gyro
almost fully materialized in
So I just relaxed and enjoyed very good instruction
flying from Mark Humbke, long time gyro flyer. It was actually my second gyro
flight. The first attempt to get gyro license was in 1999 when I took my tent
and check book to
My intent was to stay there until I have gyro license.
My 20 min intro flight in RAF gyro was not what I expected. I did not like that
screaming engine at 7,800 rpm behind my back and extremely sensitive control. I
could not control it and I was airsick like dog. I bought 6 month old Ford
Taurus station wagon instead. I still have this car with only 100,000 km and
like new.
The flight in MTO Sport by Air Pro Gyro, made in
122. Kamloops
Flying to Knutsford for Club Flying BBQ, May 14, 2016
Blue sky, cold(er) morning and no wind is perfect combination
for some serious turbulence. I flew to Knutsford for our flying club annual
BBQ. The air was bumpy but not too bad. Landed safely at Knutsford, had my hot
sausage, and watch some planes still arriving. It was perfect day to be outdoor
with sun cooking in full force. I knew it would be challenge to fly back down
to airport valley. I was not disappointed in my assessment. It was kicking like
wild horse down to the hot runway radiated the heat right into my face.
Overall, it was good day.
121. Kamloops
Flying to Nicola Valley and Flying around Clouds, May 13, 2016
I attempted several times to fly through
120. Kamloops
Flying to Greenstone Mtn, Ajax Mine, Knutsford, Downtown and Tranquille Farm,
May 5, 2016
I took off early morning to prevent any
119. Chasing
Clouds, Kamloops, Apr 22, 2016
After many days of very hot weather we received some
rain. The air was loaded with evaporated moisture with many beautiful, layered
clouds over and around high mountain peaks. I could not miss this rare
opportunity to fulfill my childhood dream to jump and play in this fluff. That
morning the weather was almost sunny and no wind. I had fun by flying close,
beside and above those clouds, but still did not dare to fly through.
I checked also the
118. Flying
in Turbulent Air, Kamloops, Apr 3, 2016
The weather was good, practically no wind and overcast
sky which usually brings more stable air for flying. Well. I was wrong. I felt
like riding on wild horse, especially around downtown and Mt Paul. I had hard
time to judge the wind direction, because it was changing constantly in 180 deg
in different elevation layers. Originally I wanted to fly over the Mt Peter and
Paul to video wild horses which I could see from a distance. I gave up on that
idea, because I could not judge if I am on up or down wind of the mountain.
Eventually I flew back in not very pleasant bumps and stayed over the
117. Kamloops
Flying to Knutsford, Nicola Valley and North Ridge, Mar 31, 2016
It was just another beautiful day to go flying. Flew
over downtown, Knutsford airfield and intended to fly through
116. Kamloops
Flying to Knutsford and River Sandbars, Mar 26, 2016
I was asked by someone to take video of the
The weather conditions looked good and the wind speed
forecast was low. It showed very quickly that this was not the case. The air
was very turbulent with strong variable wind from south. But I had commitment
to fly over my photographer at Knutsford, so I pushed forward. I made several
passes to pose for the camera and eventually landed for few minutes at Knutsford.
Since I did not like the horizontal wind sock, I decided to head back while it
is still flyable. I flew back towards the airport following the river while
taking pictures and video of the sandbars.
115. Kamloops
Flying to Take Pictures of Sandbars, Mar 26, 2016
I was asked by someone to take video of the
I took video by two cameras and pictures from the
rivers junction up to delta of
114. Kamloops
Short but Rough Flight, Mar 14, 2016
It looked like perfect flying day, but it was not.
First it was raining a bit, but no cloud around. I turned from downtown to
north following the river up to golf course. The air became very turbulent. I
was bounced like yoyo, so I decided to take short cut over the North Ridge back
to the airport, but it did not want to move. At one point my control bar was
pulled from my hand and into the turn, because my left wing got into updraft. A
year ago or so I would totally freak out, but I am getting more used to these
funny weather phenomena.
113. Kamloops
Flying with GoPro on the Selfie Stick, Feb 29, 2016
The perfect weather continued so I decided to go for
second flight. I mounted GoPro camera on telescopic hand held selfie stick. I
was hoping for some interesting shots while "steering" with one hand
and fiddling with camera with the other hand. I chose the sand bars on
I was particularly after the video and pictures while
in turn. Normally camera does not take true representation of reality, if the
camera is fixed to the plane. The plane stays horizontal, but the actual horizon
in background is tilted. While flying I tried to rotate camera so that it is
horizontal to the actual horizon. It is not always easy to do, because I cannot
watch the camera 100% of time while flying. I think I took some decent videos
and pictures from the screen shots.
112. Kamloops
Flying to See Wild Horses, Feb 29, 2016
It was one of those "Must-Fly-Days". The
weather was perfect for whatever doing outside, but especially to fly. I
decided to fly pack to SE of Mt Peter to see and video the wild horses again. I
flew there on Feb 6, but my GoPro did not work so I flew there again.
Unfortunately the horses were scattered all over and especially on the downwind
slope of the ridge. The snow was gone so they have no reason to stay down on
bared land. I made several passes around them and the "meadow" and on
the top of Mt Paul. I was also very close to soaring eagle north of the
airport. I tried to follow it, but I had no chance with my 65 Hp engine versus
the perfectly natural creation of the eagle. It was fun.
111. My
Birthday Flying in Kamloops, Feb 6, 2016
This was my 69th birthday, which is frightening and
unfair. It is the last year when I will not be in seventies. Regardless, it was
very good weather to go flying. My original intend was to fly to Harper
mountain ski hill, but I did not find it. I stayed in
110. Exploring
West part of Kamloops North Ridge and Sand Bars, Jan 24, 2016
The weather was perfect for flying. I decided to
explore the mountain area north of
109. Flying
from Kamloops to Tobiano, Jan 20, 2016
It was absolutely perfect day to go flying. I just installed
engine electric carburetor heaters to prevent icing of the carburetors. I am
very well experienced with carb icing, but it was not a big deal when flying in
The carb icing is much more dangerous in
The air was very smooth so it was pleasure to fly in
+5C and blue sky weather. Flew west over Tobiano golf course and residential
area situated on the south side of
108. Flying
from Kamloops to Ajax Mine and Nicola Valley Clouds, Jan 20, 2016
The weather was so perfect that I could not waste it.
I decided to explore Ajax Mine area, which is very often in the news because of
the "pro and against" mine issues. I took many pictures from low
level and 6,000'. When at 6,000' I noticed further south that
The west side from intersection of hwy 5A and Campbell
Creek Rd was 100% in clouds and the east side was clear with cloud transition
by the intersection. I never had seen something like this and especially not
from the air. I took a lot of pictures while flying across the valley above
those clouds. The sundog was leading me on my NE side when flying back. I had
very strong urge to burry myself in those clouds, so only my head and the wing
would be above them. I chickened out. I had no idea how this would influence my
flight and I did not want to take any chances.
107. Flying
from Kamloops to Harper Mountain ski hill, Jan 13, 2016
Plus 5C was inviting temperature to fly in snow
covered
106. Kamloops
Flying over South Thompson River Sand Bars, Nov 21, 2015
It was cold, but reasonable day for flying, so why not
to fly. Checked my popular sand bars on
105a. South Thompson River Sand Bars from the Air (Slide Show).
Nov 2, 2015
Slide
show of the beautiful sand bars with relaxing music to listen to.
105. Kamloops Flying over South Thompson River Sand Bars and NE
of Kamloops Lake. Nov 2, 2015
104. Kamloops Flying over North Thompson River, Mara Mt and Sand
Bars, Oct 20. 2015
103. Kamloops Flying to Knutsford Fly-In Breakfast, Sep 27. 2015
102. Kamloops Flying to Chase and Squilax Air Strip, Aug. 19,
2015
101. Kamloops Flying, Aug 15, 2015
100. Flying over Tranquille Farms and NW Ridge, July 28, 2015
99. Flying Kamloops, Knutsford, Campbell Rd Valley and East of
Kamloops, July 23, 2015
98. Happy Canada Day. Flight Past Sunset, July 1, 2015
97. Canada Day Morning Flying, July 1, 2015
96. Flying to Logan Lake and Highland
Valley Copper Mine, Nasty
Turbulence, June 23, 2015
95a. Mini Air Show, Knutsford June 14, 2015
After
flying club BBQ, some members showed their toys. See this mini air show.
95. Flying in Kamloops, June 14, 2015
94. Flying Kamloops May 28, 2015
Flying
over Kamloops downtown, Knutsford, Nichola Valley, Mt Peter & Paul and
North Ridge.
93. Flying Kamloops May 12, 2015 (Knutsford, South to Nichola Valley and
North Ridge)
92. Flying in not very Peaceful Air, Apr 19, 2015 (Knutsford and North Ridge)
91. Trike Flying to Savona during Heavy Turbulence. My worst
flight ever, Apr 5, 2015.
90. Trike Flying to Knutsford Area and North Ridge During Heavy
Turbulence, Apr 2, 2015.
89. I made it to a local movie.
88. Trike Flying to Knutsford Area and Detail View Flight around
Mt Peter and Paul, Feb 20, 2015
87. Trike Flying North Ridge, South Ridge and Sand Bars Feb 15,
2015
86. Trike Flying Sand Bars and North Ridge, Feb 14, 2015
GPS
downloaded my flight path and animated to see how and where I was flying
84. Trike Flying to Knutsford and North Ridge,
Nov 12, 2014
This was first, really cold day in
After short chat with my fellow pilot
and with another gloves on, I took off towards Kamloops downtown, then to North
Ridge for some buzz around, chasing my fun
83.
Good Flying Day, Nov 2, 2014
Weather was forecasted as one of the
still relatively warm days. I had to do it. Flew over the famous North Thompson
river sand bars, then river upstream towards
82.
Trike Flying to Deadman Road Valley, BC.
Oct 9, 2014
This was one of the best and the most
beautiful flights. The flight took 2 hours to cover 140 km, through extremely
beautiful mountain valley. Leaves were in full colors in spectacular scenery. I
encountered several very heavy turbulences, but I had fun with them. I explored
that region the following week from the road. It is definitively very beautiful
area.
81.
Trike Flying to Ski Resort Sunpeaks, BC.
Oct 8, 2014
It was my true first cross country
mountain flying through potentially very hostile and quickly changing weather
conditions. The weather was perfect, but still with occasional heavy
turbulence. Eventually I enjoyed those challenging flying conditions and even
sought some thermals under mountain clouds. I gained a lot of confidence. I had
to repeat this experience the next day with flying another mountain cross
country.
80.
Trike Relaxing Flying above Kamloops
Rivers, Sep 28, 2014
It was very unusually turbulence free
day for very relaxing flying above and along the South and North Thompson
rivers. The visibility was not the best and especially the low sun position on
the western horizon did not help either.
79.
Kamloops Flying Trike to Buse Lake Area
in Heavy Turbulent Air, Sept 12, 2014
It was beautiful, a bit crispy day
with no wind, while sun heat started to slowly change the tranquility of the
still air. Originally my flying goal was much more ambitious, but turbulence
did not allow me to reach it. It was getting unpleasant and fear of air
sickness was very real for me. I was pushing my comfort envelope with hope that
I will have very good video from my bumpy experience. I was not disappointed
from this aspect. You could see from the video how the terrain is complex below
and around, and how many potential sources of thermals and downdrafts are
there.
I used special post processing
software, where the video from the wing camera is transformed into more
realistic viewers experience. Instead of background moving around and the trike
stationary in one place on screen, the software reverses it. The trike is
realistically moving in the air and the background is relatively steady. It
looks like someone else took the video of me. It is very tedious process,
taking hours, but very cool effect.
I speeded up some sections up to 4x
to show the beauty, but eliminated boringness of the normal speed flying, which
sometimes looks like I was stationary there.
78.
Trike Flying to Tranquille Farms, North
Ridge and Thompson River Sand Bars, Aug 31, 2014
I flew west over Tranquille farm to
take pictures of newly created corn maze. Continued NW over the
77.
Trike Flying to East of Kamloops, Aug 5,
2014
Early morning flight in smoky sky
from BC forest fires, following South Thompson River East. Very tranquil flight
up to the last minutes. It was turbulent above city on the way back. Strong sun
heat created many local up and down drafts based on the ground colors. Overall
it was very good flight.
76. Trike
Flying to S-W of Kamloops Lake to Tobiano Golf Course, July 25, 2014
Just short, 50 min flight to get my
flying fix.
75.
Trike Flying from Kamloops to Merritt and
Back, July 12, 2014
I was thinking about this flight for
a long time. I was watching very carefully the strange
I felt almost like Lindberg when he
decided to fly solo across the ocean from
I was ready to take off at 5:45 am. It
was just 19C, which was very pleasant compare with those 40C hot days. It took
a lot of pushing "up hill" from 1100' to 6000" to cross the
mountain peaks. I do not like to rev up my Rotax 582 too much, which I no not
think it is healthy for it.
I was following
more-less the Coquihalla highway, the famous highway from Discovery channel
series Highway Thru
Hell.
Government in
July of this year increased speed limit there to 120 km/h. This was met with
very vocal opposition, because it is dangerous, people will die and all this
normal nonsense. I was ready to document all those dead people and vehicle pile
ups along the highway. Fortunately and of course there was nothing of this gore
stuff to photograph.
The weather was perfect, no wind and
no turbulence, which does not happen very often here. I landed in Merritt
Municipal airport (2090') after 75 min flight. Took some pictures, refuelled
from my spare fuel can, and took off again further south towards Merritt town.
I did not spend too much time there, because I wanted to enjoy the same perfect
weather on the way back. It was already 25C, so the heat was on...
I was enjoying the scenery even
though the visibility was not the best. It was actually the first day this
summer with hazy sky. The flight was very uneventful and I was almost day
dreaming when suddenly I received several jolts of unexpected turbulence. I
still had about 30 min to go so I was hoping that this will not be my fun
spoiler. Luckily it lasted just about 5 minutes, but I decided not to go
exploring, but head straight home. In 45 minutes of in bound leg flying I was
back at the
This was my milestone flight, the
longest cross-country so far.
74.
Flying Trike in Kamloops to Mt. Peter
& Paul, Knutsford, Ajax Mine, June 30, 2014
It was one of
the best flying days. Warm, no wind and no turbulence, which is very rare
combination. Flew over
73.
Flying Trike to O'Connor Lake, NE of
Kamloops, June 22, 2014
This Sunday
morning was perfect day to do some flying. Checked the flooded areas near
Tranquille Farm and then turned East and eventually NE to follow
72.
Flying Trike in Knutsford Mt Peter and
Paul, North Ridge Grasslands Park, May 14, 2014
It was beautiful
weather with almost no wind. Turbulence grabbed me as soon as I was air borne.
I fought it for several minutes, but eventually gave up, because it was
dangerous. I was back in my hangar in just 5 min, where I discovered that I
forgot to turn my video cameras on.
Tried again in the in the evening and
it was fun. Explored NW of North Ridge where I had to stay due to skydivers
activities in the NE region. Tested Garmin sport camera "VIRBelite"
which I forgot to set in the same format as the other two GoPro Hero2 cameras.
It seems to me that the stabilization of Garmin is better and it appears that
it stabilizes background (horizon) and the trike is moving as this is how it
supposed to be. I do the same with my GoPro camera in very lengthy and time consuming
process with Muvee TVS (see http://youtu.be/GT1MQhoJxK8
for explanation). GoPro has overall better and more natural colors. Garmin
colors are bluish especially under contrast or low light conditions.
70.
Flying Trike to NW of Kamloops North
Ridge with Power OFF Glide, April 25, 2014
Flew to NW
of beautiful region of Kamloops North Mountain Ridge with spectacular view of
150 m deep
69.
Flying Trike to Knutsford, Rose Hill and
NE Mountain Ridge, Apr 5, 2014
I am getting
better now in handling turbulence. I came from
68.
Flying Trike to Ajax Mine, Knutsford and Downtown,
Mar 23, 2014
It was very good day for flying.
Check the
67.
Flying Trike in Turbulent Air, South
Ridge, Kamloops Mar 14, 2014
Very light wind and ideal flying conditions
at the airport turned into 22 km headwind and unpleasant turbulence. Half way
to my original place to fly I had to turn back, because it was not fun to fight
the elements. The video shows the effect of turbulence on this light aircraft.
66.
Trike Flying - Chasing Clouds in
Kamloops, Mar 9 2014
It was very promising day for
enjoyable flying. Low clouds hanging above and around the peaks which I liked to
explore. Flew east following the North Mountain Ridge towards Mt Peter and
Paul. Noticed that my neck camera was low on juice, so I turn back to get fresh
batteries. I encountered some bumpy right around to Mt Paul. Flew NW of
Kamloops Lake to check the "Sediment Wall", which I discovered a few
days earlier on my hike. Did some low flying above the
65.
Flying Trike around Mt Peter and Paul,
Kamloops Feb 26, 2014
This was the first movie which I
edited in updated version of MovieMaker 2.6 for Windows 7. It allows to take
default of GoPro HD 4:3 format (widest viewing angles in 1280x960), edit it and
save it into the same format. Up to now I always had to use several different
packages. I like 4:3 format because you can see it perfectly on iPad which is
in 4:3. Majority of people watches YouTube videos on mobile devices which are
mostly in 4:3 format. The industry is pushing 16:9 format, cameras follows and
editing softwares all ignores millions of mobile devices and the majority of
users. The resulting 16:9 video viewed on iPad loses 25% of pictures with black
stripes above and below the video. I processed small section from the wing
camera in Muvee Turbo Video Stabilizer, which stabilizes background so the
trike is moving instead, normally and unnaturally other way around.
64.
Flying
AirBorne Trike in Kamloops in Heavy Turbulence, Feb 13, 2014, Version 2
I re-edited the previous version into
16:9 format. I used 2 GoPro cameras at 4:3 format and ActioPro at 16:9, The original
version did not look good. I spent several days to fiddle with this nonsense.
Millions of people are using GoPro cameras which is set by default to 1280x960.
It is the best format for flyers, skiers, bikers, because it captures the most
info. Every other format is in camera cropped result. Majority of people
watches the YouTube videos on iPad and similar devices which is in 4x3 format.
There is nothing on the market (as far as I know) to just take HD 4:3 format,
edit it and save it into lossless original format. 16:9 is the best on TV, for
minority of YouTube watchers, 4:3 is the best for mobile devices, which is the
majority of people.
1. I processed ActionPro (wing
camera) in Muvee Turbo Video Stabilizer, which stabilizes background so the
trike is moving instead, normally and unnaturally other way around.
2. I used AVS Video Converter to Crop
the upper portion of video files from 2 GoPro cameras mounted on the control
bars. I changed it from 1280x960 to 1280x720 to have the same format like the wing
camera. I could set GoPro to 1280x720 in the first place, but there was very
good chance that it would crop wrong portion of the frame. I cannot see what
camera see, I just estimate the aim.
3. I used MovieMaker 2 (I am PC guy),
which is very simple, free and produces excellent video quality, but
unfortunately, it is in *.wmv format which is then butchered by YouTube by
their conversion.
4. I then process complete video from
MovieMaker in
It was very nice weather, almost no
wind, just ideal conditions for flying. I took off with 3 cameras mounted to get
different views. The tranquil conditions changed very quickly. As soon as
I was over the North Mountain Ridge, the
turbulence started to bounce me around. It was still bearable, so I continued
to North. It got really bad. I was searching for some better conditions to go
higher, lower, in the valley, above valley... Nothing worked, but it was
getting increasingly worse. I was like garbage bag in the wind. Eventually I
made it back close to the airport, but my timing was wrong. I had to wait for 3
airplanes to land while I was kicked up and down like a yoyo. It was the most
scary flight so far.
Finally I could cross the airport to
partially frozen
63.
Flying AirBorne Trike in Kamloops in
Heavy Turbulence, Feb 13, 2014
It was very nice weather, almost no
wind, just ideal conditions for flying. Took off with 3 cameras mounted to get
different views. The tranquil conditions changed very quickly. As soon as
I was over the North Mountain Ridge, the
turbulence started to bounce me around. It was still bearable, so I continued
to North. It got really bad. I was searching for some better conditions to go
higher, lower, in the valley, above valley... Nothing worked, but it was
getting increasingly worse. I was like garbage bag in the wind. Eventually I
made it back close to the airport, but my timing was wrong. I had to wait for 3
airplanes to land while I was kicked up and down like a yoyo. It was the most
scary flight so far.
Finally I could cross the airport to
partially frozen
62.
Flying AirBorne Trike in Kamloops, North
West Mountain Ridge, Feb 12, 2014
Finally,
after month and half of unusually cold weather in
60. Flying AirBorne Trike in
Kamloops, Dec 28, 2013
I took advantage of very good weather
and above freezing temperature. Flew 70 minutes above local mountain and snow
covered sand bars. Saw many eagles.
59.
Video Stabilization Test, Mar 3, 2012
Normally when you fly with a camera
attached to your wing the plane is stationary and the horizon is moving in
opposite direction of the plane movement. This is not natural. I found on line
software "Muvee" which does very cool stuff. It stabilizes background
and the plane is moving with the turbulence as it should. It looks very cool.
This is the demo clip. The first half is the original clip and the second half
is the same clip run through Muvee Stabilization. See the difference. In
normal, from just camera stabilized clip, the wing is anchored in the upper
screen corner and the background is moving accordingly. After the clip is Muvee
stabilized, the wing is not stationary any more, but it is moving with the air
current, which is how it supposed to be. This is very cool improvement. The
software is not full proof and it creates serious an unacceptable mess in other
situation. For example during the same clip when taxiing. The software
stabilize also the horizontal panning, which creates unrealistic wheels skips.
They are on something, but it need some improvements.
58. Flying AirBorne Trike in Kamloops, Dec 15,
2013, Version 2
This is the shorter version
of the same video posted under the same name, but I used new feature. Normally
when you fly with a camera attached to your wing the plane is stationary and
the horizon is moving in opposite direction of the plane movement. This is not
natural. I found on line software which does very cool stuff. It stabilizes
background and the plane is moving with the turbulence as it should. It looks
very cool. Check it out
57.
Turbulent Flying AirBorne Trike in
Kamloops, Dec 15, 2013
After several weeks of unusually cold
weather we had sunny and warm day. It looked like perfect time to go flying. I
decided to fly east above the river towards
Eventually I decided to fly across
the airport on the north side over the North Mountain Ridge. I was very
surprised how good and peaceful it was there. No wind and no bouncing around.
56.
Flying AirBorne Trike in Kamloops, Nov
14, 2013
It was beautiful day with Spring like
conditions. Took of from the
55.
Flying with Cam's Beaver, Oct 29, 2013
It was very beautiful, but crispy
cold afternoon. Took off south-west and
turned towards Knutsford, our flying club location. Mid flight I
"met" Cam Villeneuve in his bright yellow Beaver. I tried to keep up
with him, but his wing is much more efficient than my hang glider. Eventually
we landed at Knutsford airstrip and took some pictures. Wind started to pick up
and because one never knows what will happen there weather-wise, I decided to
head back to
54.
Flying to Lac do Bois and River Sandbars.
Oct. 17, 2013
I took off into cold, but sunny morning
over the North Ridge towards Lac Du Bois (lake) to explore area which I walked
through the previous week. Made several low passes over the pasture. Then I
flew south, crossed the airport runway to my popular area,
53.
October 1, 2013 Morning Fun Flying
Finally weather look more settled
than last weeks. It was beautiful and crispy morning. Took off west to take
pictures on newly cut corn maze, but it was getting rougher with every minute.
Notable difference in
52.
Flying from Kamloops to Shuswap Airstrip,
Sept. 13, 2013
This was my another major cross-country
trip and partially over a hostile terrain. I took off into 2 knots wind and as
soon as I turned East and 2000' the tail wind become stronger and stronger, but
at least steady and not gusty. The visibility was very poor. Very hazy with low
sun directly into my face. The sun also reflected from the river which acted
like a mirror. I had to manoeuvre to change the sun angle, so I could see
better. With 18 knots (32 km/h) tail wind, I was making very good progress
towards Chase which is on the west side of Little Shuswap Lake. Occasionally I
was getting thermal kicks and downdraft pushes, so I was changing elevations
between 2000' and 3000' looking for more friendly air.
The terrain up to the Chase is flyer
friendly with almost always some farm land to put it down just is case
something goes wrong. The situation changed from Chase with no farms, just very
winding road which would need a lot of luck to put it down safely. The Shuswap
Air grass strip is located east of Little Shuswap Lake. It is very beautiful
and peaceful place.
I just spent several minutes there to
install fresh batteries into my cameras (4 in use plus one in pocket and phone
camera too). GPS showed enough power to last the trip back. I wanted to take
off as soon as possible, because of now the 18 knots headwind.
I took north side of the lake over
the mountains, which appeared to me more acceptable crush alternative then
water. I wish I could spend more time there to enjoy the scenery. I was very
relieved when I was back over the Chase in more friendly environment. The trip
back to
Kamloops radio reported 2 knots wind, but 1000' higher it was 18
knots. My trike did not want to go down onto the runway 26 due to thermal from
already superheated asphalt surface. It was good trip.
51. Flying
past the Sunset, Sept. 10, 2013
Took off into beautiful, but hot evening (36C) with
aim to time my cameras memory cards and batteries to last till the legal flying
limit, 30 min past sunset. I made it and was rewarded by very enjoyable flight.
50. Flying
above the Clouds in Kamloops, BC,
Sept. 8, 2013
Took some pictures of the newly created Corn Maze by
Tranquille Farm. Buzzed above the Sunday Flee market and then headed to chase the
low clouds above the North Ridge. It was fun during my 65 min flight. This 16
min video shows
49. Trike
Flying, Kamloops, Tobiano, Knutsford, Downtown, North Ridge, Mara Mountain, Aug 8, 2013
Beautiful flying day with calm but hazy air. Explored
Tobiano golf course resort West of the
48. Trike
Flying, Knutsford, Ajax Mine, Afton Mina and Tranquille Farm area, July 16,
2013
Interesting views of the controversial
47. Trike
Flying over Tranquille Farm, July 2, 2013
10 min video from video taking over Tranquille Farm,
46. Trike
Flying, Kamloops, Mount Lolo, Floods. June 12, 2013
A day earlier I discovered from my motorcycle very
nice areas NE of Kamloops, Cold Creek and
45. Trike
Flying Kamloops, May 29, 2013
44. Trike
Flying Kamloops, May 1, 2013
Beautiful flight east of the city until I hit a major turbulence
which spoiled my peaceful time up there. Turned around close to mountain ridge
to show the
43. Trike
Flying Kamloops Short Video, Apr 17, 2013
Bought and installed another action camera ActionPro
1080P HD which looks like GoPro, but has many more features and accessories and
cost just $150 US. I wanted to have more variety in the camera views. Decided
to go for "cross country" since the weather was very good, until I
cleared the South ridge. It was very turbulent and unpleasant to fly. Turned
around and flew over the city. I also found, that I forgot to turn both cameras
on!!! So eventually I ended up with only half trip taken with my new camera
only.
42. Trike
Flying Kamloops, Savona, Oscar Hill, Kamloops, March 31, 2013
Wanted to watch hang gliding gathering west of
41. Trike
Flying, Kamloops, Knutsford, Sandbars, March 29, 2013
Planned cross-country trip with my pilot friend in his
Beaver did not materialize. It was too turbulent. We turned back and I finished
it again flying over ever changing
40. Flying
Kamloops, Feb 15, 2013
Short video from sunny, but turbulent air:
39. Flying Kamloops, Ajax, Jacko
Lake, Sandbars, Feb 10, 2013
Finally nice weather allowed me to have some fun again
during local flight. Explored in close up
38. Trike
Flying, Jan. 30, 2013
Fifty minutes flight over snow covered mountains North
of the
37. Trike
Flying, Jan. 9, 2013
New snow, so after shovelling out snow between hangar
and Runway I was rewarded by a beautiful, flying day with temperatures above
freezing. Flew
I like this very complex scenery, with big contrasts
between snow and dark roads, rivers, structures... I am very lucky to be able
to experience this sport, which might a dream for many people. In one year of
living in
36.
Chasing the Sun Rays, Dec 29, 2012
Took advantage of a few sun breaks through the clouds
in the snow covered
35. Flying
Kamloops, North Ridge, Mount Peter & Paul, Winter River Sand Bars, Dec 12,
2012
Beautiful December day and ideal conditions for
flying. Ground is partially covered with show, which makes the features of the
hilly terrain around
34. Flying
Kamloops, Knutsford, Ajax, South Thompson River Sand Bars, Nov 25, 2012
Beautiful chilly day, ideal flying conditions to buzz
in around
33. Flying
Kamloops, Ajax Gold Mine, Knutsford, Nov 5, 2012
Wanted to fly cross country, but the wind increased
significantly into 40 km/h headwind. This would be potentially dangerous in the
mountain valley, creating serious downdrafts. Turned around in Knutsford into
very calm weather at the airport.
32. Flying
Kamloops, Frederick and Copper Creek, Nov 2, 2012
Flew this route previously, but my video battery quit
in the first 5 minutes. I could not miss to capture this spectacular scenery to
share with my friends. Very ragged mountain terrain north of huge
31. Flying
Kamloops, North Ridge and Sand Bars, Oct, 28, 12
Took off to video mountains,
but it was too turbulent. Went back and stayed above South Thomson river sand
bars. They are so beautiful and intricate in their configuration above and
below the water.
30. Kamloops-Barrier-Kamloops, 130
km, Oct 5, 2012
My second long, cross country flight through and over
the mountains. Battling cold and full bladder, I made round trip 130 km in 2
hours. Unfortunately, camera batteries failed by the first click, so I do not
have any photos.
29. Kamloops Flying Photo-shoot in
Oct 3, 2012
28. Trike Flight Kamloops - Cache
Creek - Kamloops in Sep 29, 2012
My longest and the most adventurous flight cross country
to another airport located between mountains. Check the south approach where
runway is behind the hill.
This was a major milestone in my flying career. My
first, truly cross-country flight.
27. AirBorne Trike Flying in Kamloops Sep 17,
2012
Local flight above beautiful scenery. Close up look to
26. Flying Kamloops to Tunkwa
Lake, Sep. 12, 2012
25. Flying 100 km from Kamloops to
Paul Lake to Hwy 1, Aug 29, 2012
My first major cross country flight over and through
the N-E mountains. Battling 35 km/h headwind on down wind side of Mounts Peter
and Paul.
24. Kamloops Flying, Short Clip
from Camera on Control Bar, Aug 29, 2012
I forgot to turn video camera on, so I have the last
few minutes only. Tried different angle from camera mounted on the hang glider
control bar.
23. Sunset Flying in Kamloops, Aug
12, 2012
Different camera angle showing
22. Trike Flight, Kamloops -
Savona - Kamloops , July 26, 2012
Kamloops -
21. Flying in Kamloops, Buse Lake,
Knutsford, July 17, 2012
Flying AirBorne trike
20. It was very good day in July
12, 2012
Flying AirBorne trike in
19. Several Trike Flying Days in
Three Minutes
Different camera angles taken in different seasons
edited together to show how it is to fly motorized hang glider (Trike).
18. Flying in Kamloops, BC with
GoPro on the Stick in July 4, 2012
Finally, I was brave enough to try
17. Flying in Kamloops, BC over
Spilled River and above Clouds in June 24, 2012
Taking pictures and video over swollen South and
16. AirBorne Trike Flying in
Kamloops April 9, 2012
Local flight above beautiful scenery till sunset.
Kamloops, Knutsford, Shumway Lake, Walker Lake, Petersen Creek, North Mountain
Ridge, Mara Mountain
15. Flying in Kamloops, April 8,
2012
Played over
14. Trike with Beaver Flying and
Sand Bars Beauty, April 6, 2012
Flying Airborne trike in
13. Flying in Kamloops, BC March 7, 2012
Flying from
12. Flying in Kamloops, BC in March 3, 2012
Nice, overall view of major part of
11. Beautiful Winter Kamloops from the Air,
Feb.20, 2012
Slide show from pictures which I took while flying
AirBorne Trike.
10. Flying
in Kamloops, BC in Feb. 22, 2012
Flying in
9. Flying in Kamloops, BC in Feb. 12, 2012
Flying in
8. Flying in Kamloops, BC in Feb. 11, 2012
Flying in
7. Trike Flying in Kamloops, BC in
Feb. 11, 2012, Part 1 of 4
6. Trike Flying in Kamloops, BC in Feb. 11,
2012, Part 2 of 4
5. Trike Flying in Kamloops, BC in
Feb. 11, 2012, Part 3 of 4
4. Trike Flying in Kamloops, BC in
Feb. 11, 2012, Part 4 of 4
200.
My First Float Flying, Fort McMurray
1983
My first ever flying on floats in 1983. I flew my
weight shift Atlas made in
199. Fort McMurray,
AB, Flying Weight Shift Atlas in Winter 1983
Winter flying on Snye, the
most popular place for winter activities at that time
198. Fort McMurray, AB, Flying
Weight Shift Atlas 1982
The weight shift Atlas was the best
concept and easiest flying machine. Easily transportable, but
very poorly designed. I had several close calls with this machine: broken prop
shaft, stripped prop dive belt, broken cable tong, flipped upside down on the
lake with pontoons and many engine quits.
197. Motorized Rogallo in Italy 1977
This was an excellent concept of hang
glider replacing aeroplane wing. I flew very well. I wish someone developed and
modernized this concept. I saw it in
196. First in
Flight Selfie Movie, Rana Hang Gliding 1974
Flying with my improved Dacron
type cover material, which was significant improvement from the previous poly,
rain coat, stretchable sail.
This shows my first selfie from mechanical (spring winding) movie camera. The
movie film camera took just 3 min movie before if had to be rewound. I built
camera remote control from the bicycle break leaver and cable. The trigger
worked on the ground, but not in the air. Fortunately, it stacked in ON
position, so camera took just full film movie (~3 min). Yah, how far it was
from the GoPro.
195. Hang Gliding
Pioneers in Rana, Czech Republic 1974
1974 beginning of quickly developing hang gliding
sport
194. Rana Hang
Gliding Beginnings in Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia, CSSR) 1974
Beginning of hang gliding in
This was one of my best time in my life to be surrounded by people similarly
crazy and in love of this quickly developing sport. This movie shows the first
accident on that hill.
193. How I
Started to Fly in 1974
I never flew anything in my life. I built a hang glider
from home available materials, made all the cable connections from cooper
tubing. Saw the sail from poly rain coat material. This film sequence show how
I learned to fly and learned to fly it in just couple of hours. Never stopped
flying since except for 2 years in 1980 after my serious hang glider accident
when my marriage was in jeopardy.
3. Trike Flying in Kauai, Hawaii Nov 11, 2007
While visiting my son Petr in
http://www.birdsinparadise.com/index.php
2. Bell Blimp in Fort McMurray, July 8, 2006
Short clip of, for me, exciting event to see blimp in
close up.
1. Trike Flying by Jan Nademlejnsky above Fort
McMurray. AB in June 2006
I
was flying in