Flytec can be configured to be m/s or ft/min
Got our first post-quarantine flight in last night; even did something most of you do all the time - landed at an airport! It was so nice to get back out there.
What other kinds of places do you normally land?
A little too much excitement: About a month ago, our tow plane crashed shortly after take-off, flipped over, and caught fire. Our tow pilot got killed. 
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Pretty much anywhere with enough room to safely land & pack up.
Most landowners are happy to have us, & if not, we can (usually) fly on to another LZ.
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Pretty much anywhere with enough room to safely land & pack up.
Most landowners are happy to have us, & if not, we can (usually) fly on to another LZ.
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Was watching some videos of fire fighting planes picking up water and thought I’d share. Some brave pilots will presumably be doing this sort of thing in California right now.
Cool stuff - thanks! Is it significant that each of the propeller blades can be distinctly seen? Usually they’re just a blur.
I think that’s to do with the speed of the propellors in relation to the frame rate.
Stroboscopic effect.
Here is an extreme example on a prop plane:
Thanks - good to know! So the blade is not actually turning more slowly, your eye is just able to catch distinct views of it because of the turn rate?
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Virgin Atlantic isn’t the same as Virgin Galactic. Easy slip to make though. It’s still all Branson(r)™, PLC.
Right you are.
Correct. The frame rate of the video vs the rotation rate of the blades happens to coincidentally line up making for almost stop-motion photography.
Here’s one of my favorites for that:
It’s a vid of a Czech Air Force Mi-24 Hind attack helo doing an airshow demonstration. Throughout the demo you’ll see the blades barely turning. No helicopter could fly, much less maneuver aggressively, with the blades barely moving.
The actual Hind has 5 equally spaced blades on the main rotor. At many points in the video you’ll see that it appears to have 5 equally spaced pairs of blades close together. That’s also an illusion, when the next blade almost gets to the same spot in the rotation when the next frame is taken. Ina few spots you can watch the blade pairs merge or split; sometimes 5 blades, sometimes 10.
More fun w frame rate:
The rotor on a Hind rotates clockwise when viewed from above. Which means the blades are going forward on the aircraft’s left side and rearwards on the right side.
In most, but not all, of this video you’ll see the blades going forward on the right side. In other words, the rotor appears to be turning backwards.
Here’s another example, in which the blades appear to be completely stopped:
Now that is freaky.