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Posted By:
Don Maxwell
Date Posted:
Jun 26, 2018
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This video is an experiment in point of view. Originally I was going to cut from one camera to another--and to another--to tell the story of landing on the river and taxiing onto the beach. But then a fourth video appeared, and in the end I decided to use all four at the same time. As I said, it's an experiment. And it's short--less than 3 minutes.
Date Taken:
2018-06-16
Place Taken:
The Taj Mahouse, in Shangri-La-di-da On the James, Virginia
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Don Maxwell
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Don Maxwell - Jun 23,2018
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Dave Lima - Jun 24,2018
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Wow..... professional work professor !
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Wayne Nagy - Jun 24,2018
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Very nice, Don. It looks like you've done that a time or two. :-)
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Russ Garner - Jun 24,2018
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Nice Don, it's a job getting all those cameras synced up. Nice landing by the way and yes you're spin on the on your beach
hold the tail wheel up took some practice.
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Dennis Scearce - Jun 25,2018
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Impressive video, Don.
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Thomas Bowden - Jun 25,2018
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Mark MacKinnon - Jun 26,2018
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What amazes me is, you really can't experience this while zooming across a glassy lake in a boat. In a boat you can see the surface. It's due to that that many folks can't understand why glassy landings are so challenging.
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Mark MacKinnon - Jun 26,2018
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Just put them down as 7 (I think) water landings in your log!
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Don Maxwell - Jun 25,2018
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Well, Thomas, we've demonstrated that it's possible to have too many cameras. But here's my all-time favorite split-screen guy, Julien Neel, with a perfectly seamless blending of four views of the same one thing. "Moon":
(What? You think that's four different guys? Not so! Try this--"Please"--or any of dozens of other songs he's made into split screen videos.)
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Ken Leonard - Jun 25,2018
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Col Grumpy used to say a glassy water landing was for emergencies only. He had a point.
I have done them at my home lake by flying the shoreline as reference because you haven't got the distance to screw around on a
2000' lake at 100 fpm. Glass water is the closest I have gotten to crashing...including step taxiing on glassy water. You can be
flying at very reduced power settings and not realize you are not on the water. That still gives me shivers.
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Don Maxwell - Jun 26,2018
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Col. Grumpy used to say a lot of things, Ken, and he was usually right about flying matters. Glassy water landings are demanding, for sure, although with enough of the right kind of practice they're not for emergencies only. But I think they're impossible to simulate effectively: either the water is glassy, or it's not. My seaplane instructor, Jim Kirk, insisted that I land in genuine glassy conditions, and he made me do about 8 or 10 of them. (He accepted simulations for rough water landings.)
Also, glassy-water landings come in several degrees of difficulty, ranging from close along a shoreline to out in open water, with nothing in sight to suggest where the surface is. Landing close along a shoreline is relatively easy--hardly qualifies as a glassy-water landing at all.
Landing out on open, glassy water, on the other hand, is The Real Thing and is probably what Col. Grumpy had in mind.
That's when you really wish for some kind of LVR--and maybe you throw out a spare life jacket or a map, or something. And even then it means not landing, but instead descending steadily at about 100 or 150 fpm, watching the vertical speed indicator, and definitely not trying to make the airplane land. To do that safely, you have to get the descent stabilized quite a long way out, maybe even a mile or more if it's an especially bad day. You can't be hunting for the surface with the stick. If the water is glassy, then almost certainly the air above it is smooth. Use the throttle to control descent, not the stick. That's what Jim Kirk insisted on. I've only had trouble when I got impatient or tried to take a shortcut.
On the other hand, if there's no LVR close to water level and the approach is toward open water and you're impatient, then it's an emergency. (I'm FAR from being an expert, though. This is just opinion.)
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Wayne Nagy - Jun 25,2018
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A great video for demonstrating the difficulties encountered when landing on "glass". Thanks for sharing,Thomas.
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Don Maxwell - Jun 26,2018
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Dave Edward posted--and later deleted--that he didn't like the view in the upper left corner, where the camera was on my cap. I think he said he found himself mainly watching the upper right view, with the camera mounted rigidly in the cockpit. That interested me, especially because the view I find myself watching is the lower left one, that Carol took from the ground with her phone. Maybe that's because it's the view least like what I see when flying the airplane.
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Don Maxwell - Jun 26,2018
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What just tickles me so much about the view from the ground is that really cool sound of the Searey gliding with the engine idling.
This image is from 40 seconds into the video, just as the ground view begins.
Glide
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