stevek
Striving for safe gyro 's
- Joined
- Jun 24, 2004
- Messages
- 11
- Location
- Chandlers Ford, England
- Aircraft
- Cricket mk4 replica
- Total Flight Time
- 200 fixed 40 -gyro's
I hadn't considered looking into doing the 10hrs training abroad - it sound like a good idea in priciple. I do have a small logistical problem that I have chronic kidney failure and I need to connect myself for 8 hrs/day to a portable PD dialysis machine and would have to arange for supplies to be forwarde to my training destination. I waould also need to get a motel where I could have the suppleis delivered to and with a ground floor room, as I can't carry the kit upstairs - I have a circulation problem in my legs which limits me to walking at 100 yards at a time!. none of this effects my flying. Flying is now my last and only passion and I am not going to give it up just because of a knackered old body (well I'm 54 this year - but I feel old some times!)
I think your idea about producing a video/DVD is a great idea -I would like to get something along those line going, though I am not sure what practical help I could be. If the DVD was generic enough, demonstarting the bad effects of unstable Gyros, what can be done to make them stable and the handling charactristics of a sorted out Gyro, then you would imaging it would be a great sales tool for producers of mahchines that can be demonstrated to have all the stable charecteristics in the video. These could be given out toprospective purchasers - and then let market forces do the work. I have a number of high traffic websites and I could surely make it available for free download or as a streaming video and make it freely available for any interested pilots - with a little advertising in the GA press.
Where do we go from here?
Do we need to set up a working group? You sound as though you know some guys who may be haappy to get involved - I like it!
Steve Kirkby
I think your idea about producing a video/DVD is a great idea -I would like to get something along those line going, though I am not sure what practical help I could be. If the DVD was generic enough, demonstarting the bad effects of unstable Gyros, what can be done to make them stable and the handling charactristics of a sorted out Gyro, then you would imaging it would be a great sales tool for producers of mahchines that can be demonstrated to have all the stable charecteristics in the video. These could be given out toprospective purchasers - and then let market forces do the work. I have a number of high traffic websites and I could surely make it available for free download or as a streaming video and make it freely available for any interested pilots - with a little advertising in the GA press.
Where do we go from here?
Do we need to set up a working group? You sound as though you know some guys who may be haappy to get involved - I like it!
Steve Kirkby