Slightly Off Topic: Flying Pattern at Night

[Atwood, Mark]

Night flying??  You have NO idea....I'll simply leave it to someone else from D4 or D5 to describe the "night fly" that occurred this weekend at the D4 championships.

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	David Sweatt [mailto:dsweatt at hotmail.com] 
Sent:	Monday, September 23, 2002 3:55 PM
To:	discussion at nsrca.org
Subject:	Re: Slightly Off Topic: Flying Pattern at Night

Yeah that's kinda of ironic huh? With the light sticks on the wings though, 
one each a different color, it was way easier than having the sun blacking 
your airplane out from the glare. No Gray, neither Tom or the spider monkey 
was there..and as far as drinking being involved, no comment <G>. David


>From: "Keith Black" <tkeithb at attbi.com>
>Reply-To: discussion at nsrca.org
>To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>Subject: Re: Slightly Off Topic: Flying Pattern at Night
>Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:11:27 -0500
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>David,  As I recall you were having trouble seeing the plane during 
>daylight hours at New Waverly :-)
>
>I have seen people fly at night, but not with pattern planes!
>
>Keith
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Gray E Fowler
>   To: discussion at nsrca.org
>   Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 11:57 AM
>   Subject: Re: Slightly Off Topic: Flying Pattern at Night
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>   Dave
>
>   You must have been drinking....Was Tom there? What about the spider 
>monkey?
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>   Gray Fowler
>   Principal Chemical Engineer
>   Composites Engineering
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>        "David Sweatt" <dsweatt at hotmail.com>
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>         09/23/2002 10:40 AM
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>Night
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>   It's slightly off topic but I thought I would share this story.
>   This weekend I was at a large heli-funfly and it is a big thing to fly
>   helicopters with nightblades and nightropes and such.
>   Well I had my beater FedEx 2meter bird in the truck, and for some reason 
>we
>   got the crazy idea to strap night rope and glow tubes to it.
>   It looked really cool all lit up and I have to admit I was really 
>nervous
>   but I took off and flew around abit to get used to it, and being that 
>your
>   so used to flying the pattern I proceeded to fly the entire Sportsman
>   sequence at about 12:45 AM! It was really cool cause even when I would 
>kinda
>   of loose it, due to muscle memory I guess or knowing where to move the
>   sticks cause you practice it all the time it worked out great. The 
>landing
>   was interesting cause you couldn't see the ground but it came in just 
>fine
>   and I didn't even break the prop!
>   I got pretty good video of it too..anyway thanks for letting me share my
>   story..David Sweatt
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