ZU-DVE (and ZS-WUO) (and ZEE) Flight Log

[gertcoetzee]

Circuits - or as Aneen calls it "om en om soos 'n brommer"

[Morph]

Congratulations Gert on your 100 hours

[RV4ker (RIP)]

Keep it up. May the next 100 be as much fun and I look forward to the log's....

[ACE]

Congratulations Gert on 100 hours. :D

[gertcoetzee]

[gertcoetzee]

Had a wonderful morning flying. Almost no wind. Flew around Paardeberg and when back at Wintervogel two of the "brickies" busy building Andries' new hangars showed so much interest in ZU-DVE that I had to take them for a flip each. Basie told me "Meneer kan nou maar land" shortly after take-off, but Jerome enjoyed it so much that we had to do a low fly-by over friends building near Malmesbury, and we had to fly over his house, before doing a deadstick landing from 3000ft.

New cam position tested - see 1.8M videoclip on
www.zu-dve.com

[Bacardi]

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[gertcoetzee]

Ja, they tricked me. Thought it was Men's Wealth. At least I hope it is under the Hunk of The Month section. Not seen it.

[Eagle]

Took Aneen for a trip - unfortunately windy and almost had her breakfast through propellor. Will try again on a less windy day, or look for new wife.

A New Wife will give you double the trouble ! Breakfast through the prop an a whole lot of other problems as well ! Treat your Wife as a Queen and she will treat you as a King - how about that !

Eagle

[Eagle]

Hi Gert,

How many hours do you have in total in your logbook now ? and in what space of time did you cover it ?

[Tumbleweed]

Hi Gert,

Enjoy your pic's. I have been qurious about 'aerial photography'.

Not well informed, and it seems no one else around my either, so:

Have a Ricoh Digital camara, a beautiful Samsung 100 mm auto lens which has lost it's auto focus - (trade says scrap, obsolite - beyond economical repair, but reon needs only chip replacement) and several 12v security bullet camaras.

Is it possible to fit a cam at wing position, and somehow adapt to a conventional camara ( My Samsung) Understand using several cams becomes serious high tech, but is it possible to use conventional stuff or if not, what is available off the shelf.

A remote seems the only way, I can see my kids 'sorry - Guess what I've just done - dropping the camara.

Any ideas?

[gertcoetzee]

How many hours do you have in total in your logbook now ? and in what space of time did you cover it ? - Nic Prinsloo

I have 115.53 solo microlight hours (including 3.8 solo hours when I did my conversion from PPL) and 16 dual microlight hours (when I did conversion). I also have about 100 hours PPL, but that does not count in my books. I started my conversion in January 2005, got my conversion in May, got the trike in July, and all the solo ours (-3. was done since then, with the flyin this weekend adding 11 hours.

Is it possible to fit a cam at wing position, and somehow adapt to a conventional camara ( My Samsung) Understand using several cams becomes serious high tech, but is it possible to use conventional stuff or if not, what is available off the shelf.

Any ideas?

Peter (going under the name CLUless is all but clueless on this topic - maybe he should respond since his set-up, as done by his son Deon, put the SABC to shame. I use my CANON on ram-mounts.

[gertcoetzee]

4 microlights in a "tight formation" had a great fly-in to Stanley's Island from Cape Town on Friday. On Saturday afternoon we got bumped to Knysna, where we whiled the afternoon away before having a beautifully smooth flight to Mossel Bay, where we spend Saturday night at the fly-in there. A freezing night sleeping in a hangar (Jaco used bubble rap, and it works, but he was popping all night rolling around) - and today back via Swellendam and over the Hawekwa Mountains. Met office adviced us agains doing the last leg, with a 35 miles easterly. In reality we had a smooth 5 knot westerly over the mountains, with a strong westerly on landing at Wintervogel. One of the trikes stayed behind in Worcester - muffled voice over radio explained failure to climb as being something barometric or was that babalaas?

[gertcoetzee]

[gertcoetzee]