AN2

So far I have flown two groups of skydivers. Going to film the coming flights.

GoPro Tutorial: Hat mount

This is what I'm going be using while filming today. Stay tuned and don't forget to subscribe!

More coming up!

Later this afternoon me and another instructor student are going to do one or two rehersal flights and of course I will be filming it.

I will probably not get the video up until later the coming week since I will be home very late tonight and tomorrow and tuesday I'll be going in the AN2.
Stay tuned for more nice flying videos!

GoPro Flying cockpit view

Editing took a bit longer than expected but here it is! Yesterday was a really good day for flying with nice clear weather and a light chop in the air.
Most of the time my instructor was flying as I was "teaching" him.
Coming back from my first flight we did an ILS-approach in to runway 26 at ESKN (skavsta), the landing is after that approach.

I would like comments and suggestions of angles or maneuvers you would like to see on film.

GoPro video coming up

Today I filmed my first video from inside the airplane while I was flying. Most of the time my instructor was doing the flying as I was "teaching" him how to do basic maneuvers using only instruments.
The video will come up in a couple hours, just have to edit the video.
Here is a screenshot for now

Instrument flying

I'm currently studying how to introduce a private pilot student to flying using only instruments. This is something that I do without thinking anymore. And to teach only as much so that the student can perform basic handling is no easy feat. I am struggling against the urge to pour to much information in to this lesson.

AN2, My latest love

This has got to be the coolest single engine airplane in the world. It's not because it's high-tech or fast or beautiful.
It's because it's old, low-tech, very slow and weird looking.
This 5500kg plane has a stall speed of 26kt (that's roughly 50km/h). Check out the video of it flying pretty damn slow.(the guy filming is stupid for not having the ground as reference the whole time)
And the start procedure, doesn't get more Russian than that.
I'm scheduled to go (and hopefully try my hands at flying) in one of these 30/4 and 1/5, hoping for better weather this time around.

Lockheed U-2 Flight - 70,000ft

For those of you who haven't seen this video, watch it. This is about as cool as flying gets before it's called space travel. What I wouldn't give to go that high just once.

First GoPro video

Here is the first video shot with the GoPro. The video quality is sick compared to every other camera I have ever used.

The editing itself was the hardest part, I'm trying to learn how to use a new editing software that is a lot more advance than what I'm used to. The upcoming videos are going to be awesome I assure you.

I know this isn't related to the topic of this blog but it's a good first taste of the GoPro. Check it out in HD and don't forget to subscribe!

Snow and bad weather

Todays An-2 flight was cancelled due to crap weather.
ESSB Metar is reporting 800m visibility and snow.
ESKN (where the AN-2 has it's base) doesn't have as bad weather but still bad enough for the skydivers to cancel.
Instead of a nice video and some photos of the AN-2 in flight i guess I'll post this cat classic instead.

Even more new toys

Now we can really get things started!

Rainy day

Todays two flights were emergency landings and a low altitude navigation.
The navigation became both low altitude and very low visibility due to rain. To make it all more exciting the temperature was at 0C so the risk of ice was very real even though icing was not forecasted.
All in all it was a good flight to remind me it is possible to fly and navigate in marginal weather.

Plugg

Det är hårt att plugga till flyglärare :)

Nya leksaker

Då har jag skaffat min första simulatorutrustning att ha hemma. Flight sim x installeras as we speak. Sen blir det plugg inför morgonens flygning med dom här som hjälp.

Med lite tur får jag åka med och förhoppningsvis provspaka världen ballaste flygplan, Antonov 2.

För er som inte känner till denna skönhet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-2

Start från KDKX (Knoxville, Tennessee) efter lyckad ME uppflygning. Fin dag men vi fick racea mot en stormlinje. Jag saknar USA.

En nattlig inflygning till okänd flygplats i USA

På skavsta

Sitter på Skavsta flygplats och väntar på att få flyga mitt andra pass för dagen.
Jag går Flyginstruktörsutbildning på skolan EFTA som har bas här nere.
Nästa pass blir bedömningslandningar i en del vind.