Gulfstream1 Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 'Nother "newbie" question: Night Flying Weather permiting, a pair of IR/or thermal gog's (so you don;t wrap yourself round the national grid), good moon light, cloudless sky, still air, nav lights running, even a transponder ...... any reason (other than CAA "rules & regs") why one shouldn't go for a mid-nite fly? - or do some folk (they just don't say much about it)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon_dunn Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men." Douglas Bader.... (Now that's a guy who just knew better) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantheman Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 'Nother "newbie" question: Night Flyingwhy one shouldn't go for a mid-nite fly? Legalities aside - the view is a bit dissappointing at night, plus sods law says your NV goggles would fall off and go through the prop, that's if the batteries did not go flat at the moment you were just dodging pylons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_b Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 I fly with my eyes closed anyway And I always light a fire on take off so I know where to land Landed spot on last time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outkast Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 I fly with my eyes closed anyway And I always light a fire on take off so I know where to land Landed spot on last time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surrey-dad Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 It's certainly technically possible - here are Team RedBull 'Lighting up Trinidad' Plenty of other vid clips around of others trying it to varying degrees of success. But chances of flying into things, or injury from not spotting the landing correctly has got to be an order of magnitude higher for mere mortals... Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surrey-dad Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Duh ! A bit of a Homer moment there, as have only just spotted the YouTube syntax tags. Yes I am a newbie around here Hopefully this will work better... although my original link is for the HD res version, which these tags don't appear to support. Andy [youtubevideo] [/youtubevideo] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gulfstream1 Posted September 18, 2009 Author Share Posted September 18, 2009 ...... yup, just as I suspected, some folk do fly at night. Thanx guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanman Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men." Douglas Bader.... (Now that's a guy who just knew better) ...or the viewpoint of someone who spent most of his life legless! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
learner_driver Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 I fly with my eyes closed anyway And I always light a fire on take off so I know where to land Landed spot on last time Very funny Pete made me laugh 3x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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