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John Bickham

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 170
Location: St. Francisville, LA

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 12:30 am Post subject: Video of John H arriving at Rock House

In case you missed it...



Here is a link for the video of John H arriving at the Rock House on Tuesday.  Listen for the throttle inputs.  This was a lot harder than he made it look.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMYsdarPcnY

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lcottrell

Joined: 29 May 2006
Posts: 1494
Location: Jordan Valley, Or

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 5:08 am Post subject: Video of John H arriving at Rock House

John, just like I said, " 6 to 10 right down the  runway"

 Larry

 Rock House

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John Hauck

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 4639
Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 5:29 am Post subject: Video of John H arriving at Rock House

Yea, what's all the cause for alarm.  From the  video it looks like it was a piece of cake.

  

 That landing ranks right up there with one of the  most demanding and dreaded landings I have ever made.  I had a lot of time  to think about it for the last 150 miles on the flight north from Elko,  NV.

  

 When I started my approach I had to go full  throttle a couple of times to make any progress and keep up a  decent.

  

 Someone was looking out for me, the wind, although  extremely high, was not turbulent at touch down.  I was extremely  relieved.

  

 Nothing to it!  A piece of cake!   

  

 john h - Remember wiping my sweaty right hand  several time during that approach...

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   John, just like I said, " 6 to 10 right down the    runway"

   Larry

   Rock House

	
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lcottrell

Joined: 29 May 2006
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Location: Jordan Valley, Or

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 6:10 am Post subject: Video of John H arriving at Rock House

Well, I do have to admit that the wind was up a bit on  some of the days that you guys were here. It has been windy all year and the  worst weather, for wind and rain, seems to always occur after Monument Valley. I  don't know whether it is a natural reaction to all of those Kolbs parked in the  yard, but we need the moisture bad enough to secretly not be too upset.  

  

 The house and runway are down by about 100 feet under a  hill that the winds predominately comes from, so the winds at about 150 to 200  feet above ground level are much more severe than that on the ground. That of  course is not to say that the winds on the ground are anything to sneer about,  which is why I cut in a cross wind runway. It is only about 600 feet long, 1000  if you count in a dogleg to the left. It is still a bit intimidating none the  less. 

  

 Where the discussion ( outright ridicule would be more  like it) about my wind meter comes in, is because of the wind report that I gave  John Bickham and Bruce Chaisson as they were coming in to the Rock house for  their initial arrival. When I was working for the BNSF RR as a welder, we were  restricted from welding outside in high winds. They gave us this cute little  wind meter that you could hold to the wind to determine the strength. Needless  to say there was never a day that the wind blew hard enough to curb my work  production.  As the guys approached I went out into the wind and took  readings, and the wind showed 6 to 10 MPH mostly down the runway. The winds  every where else was really rocking and rolling, and these guys were white  knuckled already. There were of course a few gusts that could get your  attention.

  

 John's landing did look easy, but I can assure you that it  was not. He had reason for sweaty palms. As I recall mine were a bit sweaty  watching.

 Larry

  

  

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lcottrell

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Location: Jordan Valley, Or

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 6:22 am Post subject: Video of John H arriving at Rock House

For some reason my computer flags John's posts on that  computer as phishing, it also marked my reply to his post as the same phishing  as the original even though I "unblocked" it. Did they show up that was on other  computers or is it just mine?

 Larry

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Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 11:22 pm Post subject: Video of John H arriving at Rock House

Shows up on mine the same. Always has done.I still  open and have a look, John leads such a interesting life with many experiences  that I have always thought the risk worth taking .Less risky than his  landing posted in the last vidio. Keep it up,

 Tony

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lucien

Joined: 03 Jun 2007
Posts: 721
Location: santa fe, NM

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 5:48 am Post subject: Re: Video of John H arriving at Rock House

Hmm... Looks like just a typical spring/summer day where I live. Wind won't go below 15G25 until Sept here .



Former partner in my titan was practicing landings in his RV6-A yesterday with his instructor while I was watching on the ground. Don't think I've ever seen a plane that big and heavy yaw and pitch all by itself that much on short final ever.



I put my FSII down in TX in some shifty wind not quite that strong once. Sure was glad I had that big 68" warp drive honker on it as full throttle was needed in some of the dips. Drove it onto the runway in a full wheel landing not much below cruise due to a gust right at the end. 



Learned a while back that going to the stops on the controls just to keep the plane doing what you want is actually not safe and can bend stuff pretty easily. I was lucky on that landing as the stops were being put to full use on all controls......



Still miss my FSII a bunch tho. May end up building another one in a few years if Kolb still makes the kit....



LS

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