{"id":1338,"date":"2014-12-30T08:16:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T21:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2014-12-30T08:16:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T21:16:31","slug":"flying-the-interstate-cadet-at-tyabb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"Flying the Interstate Cadet at Tyabb"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Interstate<\/a>On Sunday 28 December I enjoyed a few circuits at Tyabb Airport and a local flight around the Mornington Peninsula in the Interstate S-1A Cadet. The weather was very good early on with quite smooth conditions and a light south east wind. There’s always a cross-wind on the north-south strip at Tyabb.<\/p>\n

I made a short YouTube video of the take-offs & landings in the Interstate which you can see by clicking here<\/a> or on the photo above. I suppose I must have completed 50-75 landings in this aircraft now, so things are feeling easier, although with a tail dragger you always need to keep on your toes – literally and metaphorically!<\/p>\n

While I was circuit-bashing, my friends Stephen and Mike flew in Stephen’s newly acquired\u00a0Bush Hawk<\/a> down and around Wilson’s Promontory, the most southerly tip of mainland Australia. It’s about an hour and a half round trip from Tyabb in that aircraft. They reported good conditions, although there was a little lee-turbulence at lower levels around the ‘Prom’. I think Stephen gets nosebleeds if he flies higher than 500 feet… Up higher, there was quite a stiff northerly, which slowed them a bit on the return journey.<\/p>\n

But back to the Interstate. I have now completed just over 30 hours flying in the aircraft since\u00a0the first flight early in August 2014. As a result, it’s starting to feel more\u00a0relaxed to take-off and land. Admittedly I haven’t thrashed it, but fuel consumption is working out at a very economical 20 litres (just over 5 US gallons) an hour and it hasn’t used any\u00a0oil so far; although there’s always a drip or two on the hangar floor after each\u00a0flight.<\/p>\n

The camera I used was the Garmin VIRB<\/a>, a competitor to the now almost inevitable GoPro<\/a>. The Garmin is a completely different shape and can be controlled via an App installed on an iPhone, iPad or other smart device. Unlike the GoPro, the Garmin view finder is built-into the camera and is on the top (or bottom, if the camera’s mounted upside down) not on the back. The Garmin also\u00a0comes with a very easy to install neutral density filter to help get rid of those peculiar ‘feather’ effects you often see on videos taken through a rotating propeller. It’s the first time I have used it – in the past, I have relied on my trusty old GoPro – so it’s interesting to compare. Maybe, if I can find the time, I’ll do a bit more of a comparison in a different blog post.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, there will be more Interstate videos coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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