This video is the return leg from the previous video. Camera batteries were running low but I was still able to capture some of the breathtaking English countryside
Thank you kindly sir 👍🏼 Not as spectacular as your part of the world, but I’m so pleased to finally get up in the sky after a miserable couple of months of rain & high winds 🥳
I've fancied this field for a while now after watching Stuart Jones landing his CFM Shadow there. Looks incredibly scenic and somehow 'other worldly'. Would definitely need to pick my day though if I plan to go in the Peabee...🤔
You are quite right, if you’re taking the Peabee I would be careful. Most people I spoke to warned me of adverse wind conditions, so picking a favourable day would be essential 😊👍🏼
Lovely video of your return, Dark Lord…. Wow….Sometimes looking like you were flying over a Caribbean island !!… Beautiful 😍…. I don’t think you mentioned whether you enjoyed the flight….🤔…. ….. or what you thought of Bolt Head airfield…!!…🤭 Just love the camera angles and your natural enthussssiasmmm !…. 😊 Well done again… Keep ‘em coming, sir Captain Ray 👨✈️
I tell you what Captain 👨🏼✈️… I bloody loved that flight & Bolt Head is awesome! A great airfield & the flight there is exceptional! If you want to visit somewhere unique then I’d recommend Salcombe! The views en route are beautiful! Flying is amazing!!! 😂 Joking aside, I must admit that the novelty of it all has not worn off in the slightest. I feel so fortunate that I am able to enjoy that incredible view & experience. It really is the most magical thing 👍🏼 As always sir, I am grateful of your support of the channel 🙏🏻
😂👍🏼 Thank you so much… Sadly the camera batteries ran out on the return leg. I’m thinking about changing my interior camera set up for just that reason 🤔
Aww! So pleased you posted this Geoff. What a beautiful departure! And with your amazing aircraft you had no issues flying out over the cliff (whereas my Rockwell Commander would have made for a more ‘interesting’ departure… I suspect) 😬 Thank you for posting this, I owe you a beer👍🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Focusing on the departure meant I didn’t really get to appreciate the view until reviewing the 360’ footage, but you were right, it was breathtaking 👍🏼
Nice, as usual Geoff. Anne and I visited Bolt Head in 2004 and had to stay there for thee days due high winds. Landed a C42 in a very challenging crosswind that attracted a man who had a holiday chalet nearby. As he approached me, driving across the airfield in his BMW, I thought I had done something wrong and was about to get a bollicking, but he started to explain that he had been amazed at to strange angle I was heading on final, and he had to see who this fool was, landing with such a crosswind, when we both suddenly realised we both knew each other from White Waltham. Keith?, Jim? 🤣🤣. He and his wife kindly became our taxi during our enforced two day layover when we explored the walks and the fabulous beach of Hope Cove and, of course, Salcombe. I can see you are editing a bit more and keeping the film length down Geoff? I try to be as hard as I can with my editing and consign many hours of film to the cutting room floor having understood that viewers like the scenes to change often. Been a while since I did a RU-vid video, must digitus extractus 😎😎
It’s a scary small world & the aviation community smaller still. It truly does bring people together! 😊👍🏼 Bolt Head is magnificent, but as you say, very subject to adverse weather conditions, especially for the little ‘sparrow-like’ aircraft we fly 😅
Excellent video Geoff, definitely going there this year. I saw your response to someone asking about the auto pilot, but I cannot find it now. If you get time could you post a video showing the auto pilot in action. I am waiting for Steve to fit me in for the servos. Not so sure now. Hope your new instrument panel lives up to expectations. I am looking forward to seeing it
It was a comment left by John Milner on the last video which I replied to. I’ve been in touch with Paul from EuroFOX about it but so far no solution is forthcoming. You can change the sensitivity settings on the autopilot but it goes from a slow long lazy oscillating & pitching sinusoidal ‘hunt’ about the mean to a really short snatchy version of the same motion. So I don’t use it for anything other than ‘emergencies’ for when I don’t have someone able or willing to take the controls whilst I check the radio/navigation/other issue. It’s useful to have, but 99% of my flying is ‘by hand’. It’s been many months but I’m hoping Paul can look at it sometime & perhaps after he’s looked at it I’ll do a video on the advantages & disadvantages of it in the EuroFOX. It could just be user error 🤷🏻♂️
@@FlyingDarkLord Maybe there is an unwanted play in any of the rod connections, which let the steering always overshot the point, where it should stop the motion. Just a thought....
We would love that! I have a great respect for glider pilots & am also always keen to land at new airfields 😊👍🏼 When are your most active times of the year?
