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Two Spitfires Photo Flight

Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:43 am

[youtube]https://youtu.be/LGKrJvJDiK4 [/youtube]

https://youtu.be/LGKrJvJDiK4

I'm finally getting some video editing done!

Anyway, for those who haven't participated in an air-to-air, this video, edited from my helmet-cam while departing OSH in 2018, is what's behind getting an image like this:

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Re: Two Spitfires Photo Flight

Tue Mar 24, 2020 12:04 pm

It took almost 2 years to get this to us?!!! C'mon, pick it up!
Of course kidding, that was FANTASTIC!!! :supz: :spit
Thank you for sharing!!!!

Re: Two Spitfires Photo Flight

Tue Mar 24, 2020 2:22 pm

awesome! :spit

Re: Two Spitfires Photo Flight

Tue Mar 24, 2020 3:24 pm

Absolutely fabulous!! Your videos have the best "you are there" sense of any Spitfire videos I've seen - thank you from the Spitfire fan gallery!

One random question: when you take the Spitfire cross-country, what altitude do you want to fly? I assume the higher the better for both safety and gas economy?

Re: Two Spitfires Photo Flight

Wed Mar 25, 2020 9:50 am

Thanks! I've had some wonderful opportunities.

This Spitfire has no oxygen system, so we are limited to 10,000 ft. I generally choose 7500 or 8500, since I'm VFR.

I navigate using ForeFlight on my iPhone7 on a wristband. It works fine for the nav information, but I find that if I need to check weather and such, I need to come down to the 4-5000 ft range to get into the internet. There is no larger receiver/router on board, although there should be.

Of course winds-aloft might change my choice. On one of my trans-con legs in 2018 I came down to 300 ft AGL to get under a headwind and avoid an extra landing for fuel.

Dave
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