Another video using the cheap '808 Keychain camera'

[Grider Pirate]

One camera taped to the wing, just inboard of the spoiler, one on the
horizontal stab.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nDi1JvxwmM

[Andreas Maurer]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:12:40 -0800 (PST), Grider Pirate
> wrote:

>One camera taped to the wing, just inboard of the spoiler, one on the
>horizontal stab.
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nDi1JvxwmM

Beautiful video! :)
What's the airfield you are flying from? To my standard European eye
there's a definitive lack of trees!


Cheers
Andreas

[bildan]

On Nov 18, 7:33*am, Andreas Maurer > wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:12:40 -0800 (PST), Grider Pirate
>
> > wrote:
> >One camera taped to the wing, just inboard of the spoiler, one on the
> >horizontal stab.
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nDi1JvxwmM
>
> Beautiful video! :)
> What's the airfield you are flying from? To my standard European eye
> there's a definitive lack of trees!
>
> Cheers
> Andreas

Yep, and the surface temperature is typically 45C in the shade - and
the shade is about 50 Km from where you are. Nice thermals though.

[Grider Pirate]

On Nov 18, 6:33*am, Andreas Maurer > wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:12:40 -0800 (PST), Grider Pirate
>
> > wrote:
> >One camera taped to the wing, just inboard of the spoiler, one on the
> >horizontal stab.
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nDi1JvxwmM
>
> Beautiful video! :)
> What's the airfield you are flying from? To my standard European eye
> there's a definitive lack of trees!
>
> Cheers
> Andreas

What are trees? Are those like the 'crops' I've heard people talk
about?

[Andreas Maurer]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:37:02 -0800 (PST), Grider Pirate
> wrote:

>What are trees? Are those like the 'crops' I've heard people talk
>about?

In my opinion a "tree" is something green that is big enough to ruin
your day if you happen to stand below one when it's toppling over.
Does that ring a bell? ;)

[jb92563]

On Nov 18, 8:25*am, Andreas Maurer > wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:37:02 -0800 (PST), Grider Pirate
>
> > wrote:
> >What are trees? *Are those like the 'crops' I've heard people talk
> >about?
>
> In my opinion a "tree" is something green that is big enough to ruin
> your day if you happen to stand below one when it's toppling over.
> Does that ring a bell? ;)

In Jean, NV trees are those metal poles that receives your text
messages and relays them on to your friends,
sometimes they have metal leaves and branches as well, and are not
much good for producing shade. ;-)

Listing the shade temperature is rather useless in the dessert since
there is none until the sun goes down.

PS: The quality of video is pretty decent from these little cameras,
and the price is right, may have to try a couple myself.

Ray

[Andreas Maurer]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:45:41 -0800 (PST), jb92563 >
wrote:


>In Jean, NV trees are those metal poles that receives your text
>messages and relays them on to your friends,
>sometimes they have metal leaves and branches as well, and are not
>much good for producing shade. ;-)

Reminds me of the definition of a river in an autobiography I once
read (Yeager?): A creek is a something brown and dry ... and with
rattlesnakes.


>PS: The quality of video is pretty decent from these little cameras,
>and the price is right, may have to try a couple myself.

The guys from my club ordered about 40 of these cameras...
unfortunately the gliding season has ended here, so we have to wait
till next spring to test new, never-seen-before camera positions...

[JS]

A rot of nice crowds that day, Grider Pirate.
My son also enjoyed his first glider ride in 26F.
Jim

[Grider Pirate]

On Nov 18, 3:53*pm, JS > wrote:
> A rot of nice crowds that day, Grider Pirate.
> * My son also enjoyed his first glider ride in 26F.
> Jim

Arrrrr! We randed just in time! Crowds ret roose seconds rater!

[Barny]

hmmmmm... How do the wings stay level after exiting the glider?
Stealthy ground crew outside video frame on the right wingtip?

[Grider Pirate]

On Nov 18, 4:32*pm, Barny > wrote:
> hmmmmm... How do the wings stay level after exiting the glider?
> Stealthy ground crew outside video frame on the right wingtip?

Nope. The right wing settles, but only a little. I was rolling out
with that wing low to keep the wind from picking it up.

[Grider Pirate]

On Nov 18, 9:52*am, Andreas Maurer > wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:45:41 -0800 (PST), jb92563 >
> wrote:
>
> >In Jean, NV *trees are those metal poles that receives your text
> >messages and relays them on to your friends,
> >sometimes they have metal leaves and branches as well, and are not
> >much good for producing shade. ;-)
>
> Reminds me of the definition of a river in an autobiography I once
> read (Yeager?): A creek is a something brown and dry ... and with
> rattlesnakes.
>
> >PS: The quality of video is pretty decent from these little cameras,
> >and the price is right, may have to try a couple myself.
>
> The guys from my club ordered about 40 of these cameras...
> unfortunately the gliding season has ended here, so we have to wait
> till next spring to test new, never-seen-before camera positions...

Hey Andreas! The video you posted here a while back was what inspired
me to get some of these cameras. Thanks!
Hope your non-flying season isn't too long!

[Andreas Maurer]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:33:28 -0800 (PST), Grider Pirate
> wrote:


>Hey Andreas! The video you posted here a while back was what inspired
>me to get some of these cameras. Thanks!

:)))

>Hope your non-flying season isn't too long!

Well... it's going to end around March 25, 2011.

But I have to admit that I'm not too unhappy with such a long pause -
apart from a couple of wave days gliding isn't that funny in winter
here and thermals usually don't start before March 15th. And we've got
plenty of work to do...

Regards from a rainy Germany
Andreas