Today we gave Number Four his first shot at the full display and this sequence shows how he did...Bear in mind that in this sequence, he has the toughest job:-
From the Formation Startup of a couple of posts ago, they have taxied into position to commence their take-off run...George (Number Four) makes his first error here. He is a bit slow setting the briefed power setting for the take-off with the result that when he looks up, the other three have just let go their brakes.
However, he uses his throttle well and by the time they get airborne, he is just about back in position.
The full sequence of this training sortie can be seen by clicking this address:-
A nice sequence, Peter - excellent shots. You were obviously having a lot of fun. But I have to question your decision in putting George at the back. He's a natural leader and will never settle into a subordinate role! We don't want him getting bored and going off and making any more of his gruesome children, do we? Perhaps for the sake of the World you should at least consider confining him to Camp!
A great display, Peter. I thoroughly enjoyed it. You should sell tickets to your airshows. Your 'Flaming Hoop of Doom' alone will bring in the locals by the truckload. ;-)
speedbird591 wrote:But I have to question your decision in putting George at the back.
Well, I could have put him in the lead and told him to limit his MP a bit, but he has a bit of extra horsepower over the others, as he flies a TBM3. I thought that extra available power might be better used by number four
Thanks for your comments Brian and Jonesey...I must say that I'm enjoying the flying now that I have it set up.The hardest to fly are the Leader, because he needs to be so smooth and without any errors and Number Four because of the intense concentration required to stay mostly in the right place.
I will do Three and Four again though to get a final show suitable for a video
I see George appears to have zero prop speed in one of them :o
No the props never stop turning Jim, as a video would reveal but when they are throttled back you can see the individual blades when they are slow turning in screenshots. If they are all at idle power then three of the four will show this condition (the one that won't is the one that is selected as the Base for the playback). This is just a Recorder Module thingy and only occurs at a low throttle setting and then only on the ones that are NOT the base. In those sequences I used two bases...for the ones from the front of the formation I was using the Leader as base and in these shots the Leaders prop blades will never be visible. The shots from the rear of the formation had George as the base and in these shots his prop blades will never be visible. In one of the landing shots all but the leader have prop blades showing because they are all at idle and therefore all but the base aircraft (Leader) are slow turning and stopped by the camera.
The use of the Recorder Module for these projects is quite complicated :think:
You should sell tickets to your airshows. Your 'Flaming Hoop of Doom' alone will bring in the locals by the truckload. ;-) 
