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Old 04-13-2011, 11:33 AM
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Default Flight over Lake Tahoe

Here is an inspirational video for those still building. I left Minden-Tahoe KMEV flew over Lake Tahoe and the last part of the video shows me landing at my home airport KRTS. I'm using a GoPro 1080 mounted under my left wing. You couldn't ask for better weather last Sunday!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQRh9QWBUzY
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Old 04-13-2011, 11:56 AM
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awesome video! Love Zac Brown Band playing in the background too!
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Old 04-13-2011, 12:03 PM
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Neat

Good perspective of a proper nose wheel takeoff.
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Old 04-13-2011, 01:35 PM
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Neat

Good perspective of a proper nose wheel takeoff.
And landing.
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Old 04-13-2011, 01:42 PM
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Here is an inspirational video for those still building. I left Minden-Tahoe KMEV flew over Lake Tahoe and the last part of the video shows me landing at my home airport KRTS. I'm using a GoPro 1080 mounted under my left wing. You couldn't ask for better weather last Sunday!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQRh9QWBUzY
You suck! I was standing in my garage on Sunday, looking west towards Tahoe drinking a beer after spending all day working on my -7, commenting to my wife what an AWESOME day it would to be flying, instead of in the garage building. Breezy, sunny, low 60's, not a cloud in the sky. For the first time I looked at my project and thought "I wonder if I should just sell it and buy a complete airplane."

Then I went back to installing the flap actuator.

Oh yeah, centerline is "optional!" Nice landing.
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Old 04-13-2011, 02:04 PM
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Default I'm so jealous!

I can't wait to have Tahoe and the eastern Sierra within 10 minutes from the hangar. Sure beats back-and-forth over Texas coastal prairie!

Thanks for sharing.
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Old 04-13-2011, 02:55 PM
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Default Awesome video with cool music...

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Here is an inspirational video for those still building. I left Minden-Tahoe KMEV flew over Lake Tahoe and the last part of the video shows me landing at my home airport KRTS. I'm using a GoPro 1080 mounted under my left wing. You couldn't ask for better weather last Sunday!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQRh9QWBUzY
How do you like your GoPro?

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Old 04-13-2011, 06:20 PM
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Steve

Mission accomplished, I am inspired.
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Old 04-13-2011, 06:42 PM
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Very nice. Appreciate the depature from the "standard" tracks used for in flight videos
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Old 04-13-2011, 09:38 PM
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How do you like your GoPro?

Regards,
I really like the GoPro, the quality of the video is amazing! The video on youtube doesn't do justice to the camara. The camara took the video in 960p HD and you can actually see the texture of the runway during takeoff. It will record in 1080p as well, but my labtop won't play it for one reason or another.

I went to Best Buy to check out there video editing software, and the expert who helped me might as well been talking in German, but I ended up getting some pretty cool editing software by Sony, and after reading the directions for about 2 hours made this video.

I agree that I could do a better job of staying on the center line, will have to work on that
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