Takeoff into the sunrise.avi

This was recorded this morning with a simple Canon "point and shoot" camera. I used a Gorella flexible tripod to hold it to the tube just in front of me and actually ran it for much longer than the video. I cut the length down to just capture the first part of the takeoff and stopped it before the turn to downwind. It was quite cool this morning with temps hovering near 35 and frost in some of the grass beside the runway. Hope you enjoy the view as it is almost exactly what I see flying (except that I am constantly scanning for other traffic after having a student pilot enter the pattern behind me and do a touch and go behind me and pass below me on takeoff!). It was a beautiful morning to fly but I had to quit after about half an hour because I had to get into work and because my hands got quite cold even with gloves on. I loved the great color to the sky this morning. Nebraska has it's own kind of beauty if you stop to look.

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[icerinkdad]

To get an idea of the angle the wings reach if you are using a laptop keep the horizon level and tip the screen. There is a tiny windscreen in front of me that deflects a lot of the wind above me so the wind chill isnt so bad (it was about 35 degrees!) but the camera was mounted a couple inches above the windscreen so you dont have that as a reference.

[icerinkdad]

Sorry... the edit software turned the sound into static... while many are not fond of the sound of a Rotax two cycle engine to me it sounds a lot like a really big model plane engine. Having grown up flying control line models it is a soothing sound to me. What a beautiful sunrise.

Bob

[robear1053]

Once it warms back up I plan on shooting this again.  The prop had a small chip from a rock and I have fixed that and rebalanced the prop. It runs much smoother now.