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Hope you enjoyed your lessons! Wind conditions are always interesting to try and understand when you're in the air and in the middle of it all 🤣

@@InducedBank when I landed and walked into the clubhouse to tell my buddy his second hour of instruction was cancelled, he was just as relieved as I was not to be going up again. Our first lesson/experience was mid-September. We couldn't have chosen a better day for our first time in the air. So to go from perfect conditions with the odd bump, to that was a bit a confidence killer. It hasn't put us off though. Did we enjoy it? Absolutely not 😂🤣😂

Thanks Peter, it was indeed very satisfying, and a whole new experience 😁

Ha ha! I guess either term works 🤣

Cheers Giles! Wish they were all as smooth as that 🤣

Thanks Brian 😁

I'm so privileged too live near by

Cheers Giles, yep a bit unexpected 🤣 There's always theories what caused it, but doesn't make it any less unsettling when it comes out of the blue 🤣

@@InducedBank yep, I'm with you there.

Merci!!

¡¡Muchas gracias!!

Many thanks!!!

Cheers Terry, appreciate that - I'm not anywhere as comfortable with doing a voice over, but I know how well you do it so maybe I'm holding myself to a higher standard than I should 🤣

Thanks! Exciting times for you! Best of luck with the GST when it happens!

@@InducedBank Thanks, Mike!

Hey Dave, probably a bit of a dodgy choice of music for this one, you'll notice I didn't follow the theme with the subsequent videos 🤣

Cheers Patrick 👍

Cheers mate, yep good shout!! 👍

Many thanks!!!

Thanks Giles, it was my first permit check flight and I took lots of notes from the BMAA check flight video before embarking on this one! The fun bit was as it was post a wing service, I inspected that, signed it off, finished rebuilding the wing before attaching it back to the trike, and then flying it with my wife! Yes, I double checked everything!

Cheers Terry! As long as we get within 5mph of VNE (and the wings don't fall off!) it's a pass on that part - what we're looking for, and that's where the passenger is great (as well as bringing you as close to MAU as you can be - another requirement) to see if there's any flutter on the trailing edge as the speed increases - quite why that might happen or how it would be fixed I don't actually know!

Its been asked a few times over the years.

Cheers Patrick! I love how the check flight form asks if the landing behaviour is normal - blasted well better be 🤣

Cheers! Yep, definitely harder work from the back seat! 💪

Cheers Carl! A very interesting analogy 🤣

Thanks! Made so much easier than he's genuinely keen to get up and fly!

Cheers Terry! Really fun to take family up to share the fun!!

Thanks Graeme! That would be entertaining Indeed 🤣

Thanks Giles - yep - I bet I did that when I was learning and have now forgotten!! And to be fair, from the back seat, it must be incrementally harder to judge the attitude!

Thanks Giles!!

Cheers Patrick, good to see you're still around! Really appreciate your support! 👍

Hey Carl, that wasn't too bad to be honest, and while we do try and pick days with minimal turbulence, sometimes you just find areas of it and just have to deal with it. As my flying experience has grown I've got much more relaxed about it. The plane is more than capable of handling it, so now I'm way more comfortable with it (to a point!) it's not as much of a concern 👍

Thanks Lee 😁

Cheers Terry, really enjoying being back in the air - 3 flights in a very short time after a long lay off!

Is that Happiness in the face of adversity? I don't consider flying to be adversity 🤣 May well have completely misunderstood though!! 🤣

@InducedBank you are chasing your shadow. You will never catch up to your shadow so long as the sun still shines behind you, and you are happy because you can see. Idk I'm just making that up as I go

Many thanks as always, really appreciate your support - and patience!!

Cheers Giles, loving being back in the air finally! Bit of a complicated setup for the 360 but pleased with the way it's working!

Many thanks TopCat 👍😁 Great to back out enjoying the freedom of the air!

Thanks!!!

@@InducedBank I think it's quite an amazing shot actually

Cheers Mark!!

Cheers again Keith!

Keep up the great work Mike, I love seeing you fly. Can we possibly have a tour of the cockpit please? Enjoy and fly safe Mike

Many thanks Mike! A really interesting thought - one to ponder how to do - but something I'll definitely look to tackle 👍

From someone that flys Boeing for a living the takeoff roll was specifically short. Most every airline operator in the world utilises reduced thrust take off procedures to minimise wear and tear on the engines, and with every takeoff the end of the runway looking like it’s approaching rapidly by the time the V1, Rotate call comes. Entrusting our life, lives of the passengers and of course our careers to the validity of the Boeing performance tool loaded on the iPad. Many years back when when using performance tables provided by performance engineering specialists, I recall the company changed to a different provider for this service. With the change over we couldn’t pull as much weight out of some of the more limiting runways. Go figure, very same airplane. Hopefully these days the science is a lot better but what this means is the margin for error is reduced. Saying all this it’s still orders of magnitude safer than flying around with a lawnmower strapped to your back, but no where near as much fun.

Many thanks! You couldn't really get much different aeroplanes 🤣 Almost all the modern Flexwings fly with a Rotax 912 four stroke aero engine. Apart from the engine difference, the hours are another - for example my syndicate plane only has around 850 hours on it, where the commercial jets likely are in the tens of thousands of hours!

Cheers Keith!!

Cheers Lee, yep, a tad bumpy!

Hey! Can only really say from the UK perspective, and the two biggest limitations are money, and weather! Assuming money is ok, then around 45 hours logged is average, and 8 months to a year is achievable - with enough flyable weather!

Many thanks!!

Hi Sam - no - although microlights can be fitted with a 'Ballistic Recovery Chute' I have actually never come across a flexwing with that fitted - we really shouldn't need one - Flexwings are basically a very advanced hang glider, with an engine. Turn the engine off and the plane glides very well. The training includes a LOT of engine failure practice, and we can land in most fields etc safely enough.

@@InducedBank Hi have had 10 hours flying a flexwing a few years ago i think the revo are fitted with the ballistic chute thanks for the info.

Cheers Simon!

Good idea Giles!! Thanks!!

Hi Giles! Yes, but still a lot to learn about it!

Cheers Giles - yes, relax, relax, is the mantra in my head!

Many thanks Brian! Great to hear that, thanks for Scotland 👍

Cheers Giles, very much still learning how to get the best out of it!

Cheers, hope you enjoyed it!

Many thanks Terry! It was set at full 8K so the cropped footage would still be good enough to meet the 2K quality. It was a very expensive purchase, and will hopefully provide lots of good footage. Still need to figure out the best way/place to mount it with minimal risk of losing it if the boom failed...

Cheers Dan, definitely a good flight in great conditions (as long as I kept away from the overland turbulence!) . Much X4 experimentation to follow!

Cheers John, really appreciate the honest feedback 👌 Thank you!

@@InducedBank I enjoy watching your videos , as a flexwing pilot myself I hope one day to venture up your way. Feels like the flying season is just starting , I just went to Popham Saturday… first nice day that fell on a day off in 6 months. Let’s hope we have a good year this year. Fly safe . John