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419.
This is a
shorter version of the video #418, with mainly views from the front camera. It
is made for people liking to look around while enjoying the beautiful
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418.
This is a
long version of the video #417, with mainly views from the front camera. It is
made for people liking to look around while enjoying the beautiful
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417.
Spectacular
atmospheric conditions were captured in this late afternoon video. High clouds
above, low clouds just below, orange glow from setting down sun, rainbow, blue
sky, spectacular clouds colors and shapes…. Majority of my flight was very
peaceful and relaxing, but also with sharp awakening by a local turbulence.
Good aerial view of Batchelor Hill area, Brock, glowing in the sun Mt Peter,
Harper Ranch area, Dallas, North and NW Ridge area, Tranquille Farm / Padova
area.
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416.
Finally,
some decent weather for very nice late afternoon flight. This is short video
from above Brock and
415. Cold Birds Views
from
I was
waiting whole month for this moment due to unreasonable weather. It was worth
of wait. The air was smooth like silk which took off the usual nasty weather
related surprises. I am showing very detail views of
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414. Spectacular Flight over Snowy Downtown,
Finally,
another nice flight after long pause due to bad weather. Everything looks even
more spectacular with the contrasting snow covered and bare surfaces. Check it
out.
413. Local, 170 km Long Flight till 30 min after the Sunset.
Enjoyable
evening flight to see
Interesting
views of
412. Rough Flying to See Ravaged Area by 2021 Wildfire of
This was my
3rd attempt to see the effect of the 2021 devastating wildfire in
The area
looks like a different world. I felt like being in the volcano crater. Poor
residents: they had to live through this nature hell. I think I have very
interesting video from 5 cameras documenting my 130 km flight.
411.
The end of
my 133 km (83 mi) journey, flight over the South Thompson River sandbars. They
are forming very interesting, complex, ever-changing and very beautiful
under/above water creations. Two minutes video.
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410. Flight to
Flight started flying west, above the Kamloops North Ridge,
following the steep and rugged north shoreline of
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409. Nice Flight in Serious Turbulence,
It looked
like an ideal condition for flying, but the reality changed very quickly into a
nasty turbulence. Decent condition changed within 10 km into scary situation.
Cool morning, no wind, cloudy without thermals so why this sudden change? I had
to change my original plan because I did not want to push my luck. It was still
very nice and eventually peaceful flight. Test
408. My Stupid Mistake
and Surprised Trike Reaction,
This is
short video taken from my previous video #407. I am showing in details my
serious mistake and consequence when I forgot to buckle up the seat belt.
My seat
belt is not the best kind. It has the flip up latch to open it. This poor
design allowed me to unbuckle in flight (3x) when lifting the neck camera. I
solved this unpleasant problem with the funny pack covering the buckle. The
camera strap does not accidentally unbuckle me now, but complicate situation to
buckle up in flight.
The air was
very good and steady. I set (tuned) the electric wing trim to level, hands free
flight first. The complication started when trying to place both belt ends
under the funny pack with camera on the top of it. Then, suddenly and instantly
the control bar went to max forward up to the front brace. I did not change the
RPM. It had to be vertical puff of air. This proved my point that it is
important to relax your hands on control bar, but still control or dampen the
bar/wing from reaching the extreme movement due to the asymmetrical vertical
air movements.
407. Turbulence
Changed my Plan to Fly to another Nature Beauty,
Originally
I had different plan, but totally unexpected and ever increasing turbulence
made me turn around and look for some more peaceful place to fly. I found it
and it was very beautiful country site with many lakes, hills and deep valleys.
I had also one stupid moment shoving how close I was to some serious problem. I
will show more details in my follow up short video to show my stupidity from
different camera angles. You will get the pictures in this video.
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406. Flight to
I was
considering this flight for long time, but the hot noon weather effect scared
me from doing it. Salmon Arm flying club, about one hour away, has Wednesday
morning coffee fly-ins, which starts at 10 am. Normally, I am back from my
flights by 9 am to prevent the nastiness of the hot weather turbulence. This
time it was different. I took off at 9 am (22 C / 72 F) and returned at noon at
29 C (84 F). The first leg was a straight line over some mountain area very
hostile to emergency landing. I encounter turbulence close to the peak. The
turbulence is not the problem, but the apprehension about what will come next.
Is this the first warning, would it get worse, what to do next. I could go
higher, but eventually I had to go low too… Salmon Arm is very member active
airport located is beautiful area by enormous
I followed
the highway and the river valley through the civilization on my way back. The
sun was in my back, so it was better for the cameras. This video is extract
from my 10 hours, 5 camera videos, 214 km (133 mi) long flight through one of
the best nature in this region. There was practically no heat turbulence except
above the concrete runways, like always.
405. Beautiful Flying to
190 km (118
mi) long trip through the most picturesque hills, valleys and lake areas to a
special recreational area of Douglas Lake Ranch. The ranch is owned by an
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404. Mountain Flying to Greenstone
Mt, Ajax Mine, Kamloops Downtown and Watching Creek Wild Fire, Aug 6, 2022
It was very
relaxing and a bit colder flight (11 C (52 F) to very nice area of Greenstone
mountain. It used to be the forestry
fire watch tower, before they switched to satellites and electronics. The shack
is still there and maintained be volunteers even though it was several times
vandalized. It is one of the highest peaks in that region which offers perfect
360 deg view. I flew to
403. Hot Summer Morning Flight to Isobel and Many Other
Lakes, Jul 28, 2022
I took off
at 7:30 in 24 C (75 F) sweating temperature to cool off in higher up, but no luck.
Regardless, I flew over another spectacular and diverse terrain with many
lakes, hills, deep valleys, meadows and forest. I am shoving this beautiful
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402. Another Fantastic Flight to
Morning
flight to beautiful recreational area of Knuff and Sullivan lakes and then to
401.
Flight to Ashcroft and Landing in Cache Creek, Jul 14, 2022
Perfect flight
in spectacular river valley and good combination of sun and cloud for good
video. I did this route several times and it is always challenging with very
variable weather conditions. There are several valleys meeting in one point
which is very often rough to fly through. After every landing in Cache Creek I
made decision not to land there anymore, but, like this time, I did it again.
This is short video from 165 km flight made into very nice music. Check our
luckiness to live in such complex natural beauty. I had very rare opportunity
to video two opposing trains in the same place, but separated by river. It
looks like model trains running in the loop.
400. Flight over Mountain to Chase
and
It was one
of my best ever flight; perfectly relaxing and without any unpleasant weather
surprises. I flew in straight line over the
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399. Hot Evening Flight over
Flooding Rivers, Jun 25, 2022
It was the
first very hot day and in this case evening, 30C (86 F) at 8 pm. I flew to
check the status of our two major rivers flooding. It was a bit let down,
because the water level was lower then previous night. This is good news that
the predicted, half century flooding will not happen. We cannot do victory lap,
because the nature could always surprise us with own quirks.
It was very
good flight and the resulting video, fully annotated is showing it. I really
like to read your comments, which is the only reward for my hours of hopefully
not wasted life.
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398. Flying over Flooding S Thompson
River from Chase for
I flew 150
km in early morning to see the state of the
The
flooding of N and S Thompson rivers is an annual event. Each spring those
rivers change from shallow rivers with many islands, beautiful beaches and
interestingly sculptured sand bars into raging rivers (almost like small lakes)
flooding many low laying fields and areas. Time to time they create disaster
floods as marked on the attached photo of the historic floods. So far, the
rivers are at annual flood, but forecast is for disastrous flood in the level
of 1972. It was very relaxing flight above all green and yellow terrain except
usual and sudden turbulence to wake me up from my daydreams.
397. Flying over
An
unusually colder spring delayed snow melting in the mountains. Finally we had
several very warm days and mainly nights which is now accelerating the snow
melting. The rivers cannot keep up and so we are expecting some serious floods.
I flew to check it out. The North and South Thompson rivers are already
spilling out in the low laying areas. It was almost relaxing flight until I hit
serious turbulence in the 7:30 morning sun heat. This cut into my original
plan.
I did also
my pre landing experiment to lower the effect of dark and hot runway in the
middle of green and cold grass. It really took an age from usual unpleasant
turbulent landings. My experiment worked.
396. Flight to
Early
morning flight into a special natural rock formation in very weird weather. I
started with no wind, which was changing up to 53 km/h. The flying was from
very relaxing to instant heavy turbulence. Landing was interesting too with
head wind speed from 52 km/h to no wing within 1000’ elevation
difference. I was hoping to fly close to the Buse Hill rock face, but the
weather conditions there were too risky.
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395. Beautiful Flight to Paska and
Other Lakes. Playing in the Clouds. May 24, 2022
Super
flight to Paska Lake Recreation Resort, low level fluffy clouds to
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394. Beautiful Flight to
This was
one of my best flights over many lakes, meadows, hills and valleys. The sky was
sprinkled with scattered clouds creating interesting patterns of shadows down
below. The flight was mix of relaxation to full attention from turbulence. It
was also my best landing with zero kinetic energy into my wheels. I was
impressed.
393. Turbulent Flight to Deadman
The flight
was almost relaxing until I entered the
392. Flying between
My original
plan was much more ambitious, but I had to change it due to increasingly more
unpleasant turbulence. Terrain is more beautiful with greens covering the
majority of its surface. My flight is over the most beautiful natural area of
391. Flying to Tobiano,
Flying 145
km round trip through some spectacular and also sad scenery. The SW portion of
my flight was over the remnants of the devastating 2021 forest fire(s). It
looks interesting, but also very sad. The small town (pop 2500)
I captured
also different and complete view of Tobiano and nearby hoodoo areas. East side
of Mt Savona looks very interesting.
I flew over
several still frozen lakes around Lac Le Jeune. I had an opportunity to spot
the three large flocks of cranes, but much lower then I was flying. I made a
few attempts to get closer, but they were faster in their maneuvers. They were
very well aware of my presents above them.
I made
closer aerial video of the Petersen Creek canyon and
390. Flying to
It was very
nice flight through the backcountry in deep valleys. In 2021 fire season
the Whitecroft was in unwanted center of attention when it was part of very bad
forest fire. The fire result could be seen in video. It was very close to the
Whitecroft village and just barely separated from the very popular Sun Peaks
Ski Resort, the 2nd largest ski resort in
Nice view
of still frozen
The landing
was as expected, hairy. There was no reported wind at the airport, the air was
about 5C, but the dark runway was heated to perhaps to 15C. This created very
unpleasant turbulence near the runway surface. I also felt twice sudden push
from the back, which was the first one for me. I was bounced in every
direction, which is not very pleasant experience few feet from the ground.
389. Round Flight to
I few to small
city airport in Merritt. Merritt was seriously damaged during the autumn 2021
flooding. Some houses and properties were destroyed. I could not see much of
that effect from the air. Merritt is located in beautiful mountain surroundings
and connected with famous
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388. Exploring
I am
presenting fantastic beauty of the Kamloops NE Ridge area. I flew above 3 herds
of wild horses grazing in very picturesque setting. It was windy, but not gusty
day to have very good flying experience. Join me to see what only a few people
could experience.
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387. Flying back from
This is second leg of my flight as describes in video #386. I
was not looking forward to take off due to high wind in about 45 deg to my
left. It was bumpy, but not too bad. Trip scenery is always spectacular,
because it is very diverse. It is very complex terrain all around us. I wish it
was a bit green to make it more colorful, but it is still too early for that.
The flight was very easy and smooth except, of course, just above
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386.
Flying to Cache Creek Challenging Airport, Part 1 of 2. Mar 16, 2022
The weather was just great with blue sky to fly 45 min west
to small, single runway, mountain type airport. I was following Thompson River
valley, over Tobiano,
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385. Exploring
I had very nice flight while testing additional features of
my new camera, Insta360 One X2. In this video, I used explanatory comments of
tested features.
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384. Super Day over Super
Nature – The Way the Birds See It. Mar 3, 2022
It was unbelievable sunny day with very complex sky and complex
ground. Dark and still some snow covered surface created indescribable nature
complexness which would be a big challenge for any artist to paint. I tested my
Insta360 One X2 camera in another location, but I am still not happy with the
result. The next time I will mount it on the wing. This video plays into
classical music, creating relaxing mood. The last few years of camera
technology progress surprises me every time I view my videos. Let me know if
you like it.
383. Testing my New Camera
Insta360 One X2, Part 2 of 2. Feb 18, 2022
Side mounted camera vibrated too much in previous video. This
time I mounted it up front on the trike nose. Resulted video, which looks like
globe must be edited into viewable clips to be integrated and synchronize with
other GoPro cameras. A big advantage is that I could keep horizon level in
turns. This has to be done manually in post editing process. Also the GoPro
camera video could be speeded up max 3x without too much of extra distractions.
Faster it plays more jerking it become. I tested the Insta360 in speed 8x
faster, which translates into perceived flying speed of 960 km/h (597 mph). I
was very impressed with the results. This and part 1 videos just test the features. I will be
very careful not to be sucked into gimmicks. The bottom line is that camera is
very impressive.
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382. Testing my New Camera
Insta360 One X2, Part 1 of 2. Feb 18, 2022
Just bought
the Insta360 One X2 camera and testing it in two positions. In this test it is on
my side long mount. The bracket is long but it is vibrates too much.
I am
learning totally new field of editing. This camera is actually two cameras
together taking 360 global views. I have to edit individual views, play speed,
horizon angle correction in turns…, just more time to kill. I also wanted to
know if it will integrate with my GoPro cameras. So far it works. This and part
2 videos just test the features. I will be very careful not to be sucked into
gimmicks. The bottom line is that camera is very impressive.
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381. Interrupted Flight due
to Heavy Turbulence and Strong Wind. Feb 10, 2022
It was
beautiful sunny day with no wind and +2C (36F). I was planning to fly to
different airport,
I knew that
I would have hard time to fly in that headwind back. It was decision time:
Should I or shouldn’t I? Suddenly terrible turbulence started which bounced me
very good. It decided for me. I turned back and was inching towards
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380. My Best Flight to Harper
and Sun Peaks Ski Hills. Feb 6, 2022
This was my age depressing, 75th birthday flight. I needed to
take some edges of those “It’s over life feelings”. Fortunately, the weather was perfect
to relax in the air. I flew first to Harper Mountain Ski area, showing our
smaller ski hill. The next on my list was the 2nd largest ski area
in
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379. Day to Explore Natural
Beauty of
This was one of the best days for winter flying with smooth air and very
little weather surprises.
I flew over many frozen lakes and mountain ridges, eventually view
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378. Beautiful Winter Flying
in N
Nice
flying day to get some fresh air and have fun with it.
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377.
After long period of very cold weather, the Mother Nature smartened up
with quickly disappearing snow and above freezing temperatures. Patches of the
disappearing snow created very interesting ground patterns with awesome
results. It was very good flight at totally relaxing mode, but also with some
shaking up turbulence. New camera mount and view angle.