Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Flying Pictures Cont.

I was sitting 'jump', meaning I was a passenger and not flying during this landing. At the bottom of this post is a video of this landing by Jeff Moon. Another picture from Jeff's landing, just from a different vantage point.
Columbus AFB from about 1500ft. We had just got done flying a low level and were coming back to land. Again, check out the video below.

The next three pictures are from one of the low levels that we fly. We usually fly these from 500' to 1500' depending on the bird condition. All over the US and especially where there are low levels, the Air Force has built small radar towers to detect bird movement. As you might have seen with the plane that landing in the Hudson (Go Sully!), birds are a constant threat that we pilots have to deal with. These radar towers are usually unreliable in my opinion, but it's the best technology we have at this time.





This is Jeff and our instructor or IP flying the low level.
A little hard to see, but there is a nuclear power plant that we're flying over.
My hometown, the great city of Bedford, IN from 10,000ft.
Near Bloomington, IN... I present you with Lake Monroe.

A close up view of downtown Indianapolis, IN. We took off from Indianapolis International that morning and as you can tell it was right before they tore down the RCA Dome. It was great to actually land and takeoff from an airport that I've used commercially before.
A panned out picture of Indianapolis.



























































































































































This is the video of the T-1 landing.


This is a video of a T-1 taking off that I took.

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