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Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: Golfer on January 31, 2005, 04:24:00 AM
And another to the HTC crew for their new lifelike sky.  Here is the photo I was trying to use as a reference but it didn't come out well at all on my end (possible due to Internet Explorer)

Shazam, a Sky Reference:

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/621_1107166634_normalsizedapacheandmooney.jpg)
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/621_1107174226_ahsky.jpg)
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: FiLtH on January 31, 2005, 05:33:28 AM
Post a comparision pic from AH.
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: Golfer on January 31, 2005, 06:25:01 AM
done
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: rv6 on January 31, 2005, 06:33:21 AM
You read (and spoke) my thoughts exactly Golfer' (aka: Gollum)  :-)

Looks exactly like the real thing aye?  And we save approx. (umm? counting on fingers? too much to calculate)..    $15 per month, divided by? $85 per actual flight hour?  Times the square root of pi?..  OH, WHATEVER!   It looks real, costs less than real (and you & I know about that! ha!) and you can shoot at other peoples airplanes in the landing pattern!

And here's a little ditty taken by yours truly.. Is it an AH screen capture?  Or is it a view from 5,000 ft msl over Martha's Vineyard? Hmmmm?

:-)

RV6

Life is good..   (http://www.vtxpress.com/rv6/vineyard.jpg)
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: Golfer on January 31, 2005, 06:36:24 AM
Are Vee!  Mornin'

No flying today...Fog and its about 10 degrees outside...insta-ice.

BrRrrrrRrrRRRRrr.

"traffic thismorning is lousy, thanks!"

Hey...I'm lookin for that photo of you and I in front of the Marchetti...It's got a little box on my big poster of us in formation and I was looking for it the other day.  I was laying the groundwork to start a website about aviation and such related things and that was one photo I was lookin for.  Still have it???
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: rv6 on January 31, 2005, 06:59:47 AM
Why yes..  Funny you should ask.  Will this do?

;-)  

(such a handsome pair of acm foes aye?)

LOL!

(will send it via PM)

Are-Vee
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: Golfer on January 31, 2005, 07:27:59 AM
my god...get it off here!  LOL!  

thx.  Sure is nice to know that weight loss makes you look better :)

(maybe you could shrink that photo up to about 1" x 1" LOL

Here I be, now.  But only for a bit, we are contaminating my sky thread.

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/621_1107178006_el-smiley-o.jpg)
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: moose on January 31, 2005, 01:30:38 PM
funny rv6, i've got loads of photos that look strikingly similar :) gotta hate the sun reflecting off the glass though..

you live near kmvy?
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: JTs on January 31, 2005, 02:23:31 PM
golfer is that plane used for drug running?
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: Golfer on January 31, 2005, 02:31:59 PM
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golfer is that plane used for drug running?


what makes you say that?
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: JTs on January 31, 2005, 02:34:50 PM
all that white stuff leaking out of it they even have it piled against the hanger
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: Golfer on January 31, 2005, 03:05:11 PM
Far as I know they don't move blow with that one.  Twice a week I take an unmarked package to Canada and bring another one back to deliver to the doorstep of an address written on a post-it note though.

Completely straight and honest money...after all if it was drugs they wouldn't wrap it.
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: rv6 on February 01, 2005, 07:16:15 AM
Hi Moose!
Negative, I'm based around KHFD.  KMVY, is a lovely "day run" with the old ball & chain.. LOL.
(she dont care for snap-rolls enroute however)

But, the fave of faves is 1Bravo2! (1B2 Katama) As I'm sure you know, landing there on green cowpastures, and rolling your plane right up to the oceans' edge?  wow..  Feels like landing on the English coast during the "big one"..  :-)

Thanks for the note..



RV6 ~
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: MadBull on February 01, 2005, 10:32:49 AM
Golfer My girlfriend saw your pic and wanted me to tell you to clean your kitchen. She just can't stand  clutter on the kitchen table. :rofl
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: Golfer on February 01, 2005, 03:13:28 PM
LOL!!!

Isn't my kitchen...thats my parents house.  Though, mine isn't a whole lot better.

Cap'n Clutter.  That's the cereal, right?
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: MANDO on February 01, 2005, 04:55:06 PM
While the sky seems ok, everything else is too dark and with too weak contrasts.
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: Golfer on February 01, 2005, 04:58:29 PM
That AH screenshot was taken just as the sun was rising to the airplane's back.

I only logged in for a screenshot, and had to wait 45 minutes for the sun to set and then get to that point...go figure.

I was late for work so I'll post a replacement if ya like.
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: moose on February 02, 2005, 01:26:31 AM
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Originally posted by rv6

But, the fave of faves is 1Bravo2! (1B2 Katama) As I'm sure you know, landing there on green cowpastures, and rolling your plane right up to the oceans' edge?  wow..  Feels like landing on the English coast during the "big one"..  
RV6 ~


!!! KATAMA is my FAVORITE airport. ever. you nailed it spot on - nothing like taxing right up to south beach pratically.

next time i go, i need to take pictures. its really an awesome sight to see.

have you ever been into 2bravo1? i used to fly out of there with the cape cod flying school before it was shut down, but they reopened last year thankfully. my instructor has said that once you land there (short field, 50" obstructions, grass) you can land anywhere anytime.
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: Golfer on February 02, 2005, 01:57:24 AM
Here's a snapshot when I diverted to visit the airport I took the above photo at.

BRRR!!!


(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/621_1107330976_winterwonderland.jpg)
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: rv6 on February 02, 2005, 05:35:45 AM
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Originally posted by moose
!!! KATAMA is my FAVORITE airport. ever. you nailed it spot on - nothing like taxing right up to south beach pratically.


Hi Moose..
Yes sir Ree!  This'll bring back fond memories of a short final onto Katama.. (LOL!)  When we were overhead, looking at GPS saying: "YOU'RE HERE FOOL!"  Look down?  Where's da runway(s)?!  Finally you realize.. Oh yeah!  Them little grass paths.. Ha.. LMAO now (not so funny then).. :-)

Don't want to stick a crummy "ad" on the BBS here, so if you want to take a peek at our (You & Me Moose!) Fave spot to try and land an airplane? (note: key word TRY)..  click here.

Coast down on grass, to dirt road, hang a left with airplane on ground, go to beach, get out, have picnic.  Voila ~ Katama.
See ya'

RV6

Katama Final Approach (http://www.vtxpress.com/Katama%20Grass%20Strip.jpg)
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: Golfer on February 02, 2005, 11:27:18 AM
uhh RV...

That's a farmers field with a brush hog path off the road.  Ugh, you guys from 'Blue' states. ;)
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: moose on February 02, 2005, 01:29:34 PM
summer is just too far away :(
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 02, 2005, 10:02:00 PM
Quote
Originally posted by rv6
You read (and spoke) my thoughts exactly Golfer' (aka: Gollum)  :-)

Looks exactly like the real thing aye?  And we save approx. (umm? counting on fingers? too much to calculate)..    $15 per month, divided by? $85 per actual flight hour?  Times the square root of pi?..  OH, WHATEVER!   It looks real, costs less than real (and you & I know about that! ha!) and you can shoot at other peoples airplanes in the landing pattern!

And here's a little ditty taken by yours truly.. Is it an AH screen capture?  Or is it a view from 5,000 ft msl over Martha's Vineyard? Hmmmm?

:-)

RV6

Life is good..    


That aint no picture of real water!

You got the sheen right but left out the sparkle.

who the hell ever saw water that looked like that??

It's 'spossed to sparkle like sun off fresh snow!

;)(http://www.vtxpress.com/rv6/vineyard.jpg)
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: Jasta on February 02, 2005, 10:39:19 PM
What kind of Piper you flying there Golfer?
Title: WTG on the new Sky/Clouds (Photo works now!)
Post by: Golfer on February 03, 2005, 01:46:55 PM
Tis not a Piper.  It's a Mooney M20J 201.  I've got about 75hrs in that airplane alone, it's my get-around airplane and a real *****cat to fly.  I regularly land the airplane and make the first turnoff of Runway 4 at my home airport.  You're looking down rwy 22 in this photo, so the first turn off is the far one in the photo.  The runway is a little over 5000 feet so I'd guess that first turnoff is 1000' or less.
(http://66.226.83.248/ap/04294)


Little faster than a Cherokee.  It's the one in the background of the 'sky' picture with the Apache.  Like flying my own little fighter, if you just look out the window at only the wing and the minor fillet...you can imagine yourself in a P-51 :)

Also, some Bonanzas have a similar little window cut into their left window (I'm pretty sure thats what you were identifying)