rick felty - rotation speed

Nicely done!

Next time my runway is giving me a challenge holding the center line, I'll think about this video.

This is another video shot during pattern practice at Norwood. This day, winds were light out of the east so we were using runway 10 with its dramatically displaced threshold. The first trip around is shown in its entirety, but the next three start on the downwind where things get more interesting. Early in each pass you get a nice view of Boston in the distance. Also worth noting is the fact that the Cessna I sometimes fly 13151 is in the pattern as well at the same time, often chasing me around! There is some good ATC audio to listen to here and the chance to experience (once again) a little pattern practice. Generally the landings get better as I go, with one of the middle ones being the most firm. The last one was sweet and made for a nice reason to wrap it up for the day. There are 3 HD cameras and ATC audio on this video. Enjoy.

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This is the video of the return trip from KSFZ to KOWD from December of 2010. Because it's such a short trip and my video duration on YouTube has been extended, I was able to get the entire trip into one complete video. You'll see the departure from the uncontrolled field, North Central State Airport in Pawtucket, RI; the entire short hop (16 minutes) to Norwood Airport, and the landing there on runway 35 as the sun was getting low in the winter sky. You'll also hear several scratchy calls from N13151, the Cessna 172 I also fly, as it gets into Norwood just ahead of me. Not a lot of action here, but since it was a real full flight, I thought it would be interesting to post this way. There are three HD cameras and full audio on this video.

This was the second day of flying for me on the same weekend in two different planes. The video from the day before is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUPGej... . On this day I had planning to fly to PYM to meet Andrew Blanchard http://www.youtube.com/user/N44949, a friend for breakfast. Unfortunately every other pilot in New England had a similar idea and so by the time I got there, the sky was full. Plymouth is an uncontrolled field with two very long runways and a great restaurant, so a lot of people use it for practice. I circled to the west listening to the UNICOM, and eventually I entered the pattern, but broke it off because it just felt too congested for my comfort level. I might make a future video of that attempted landing. This video however, is the return flight I made to Norwood, OWD. It starts with the ATIS and then my initial call-up. You'll hear the Tower comment that I had a weak transmission signal, which was part of a nagging communications problem this day. I had a sticky PTT key and those two things may have been related. The rest of the flight is a straight in approach to Runway 35. As I get closer to the airport, you'll hear the controller do a great job handling a pretty steady flow of traffic. You'll also hear that my "other" rental plane, the Cirrus 168SR was being flown in the pattern. For that reason, during the landing sequence I left in a side shot to show 168SR waiting for take-off. Normally I don't interrupt the flair portion of the video, but since it took a while to settle, I thought it would be fun to show the other plane that is featured in many of my other videos. There are three HD cameras and ATC audio on this video.