What's he doing??

Sweet Pictures all the same!

Moondance – what sort of height are we talking for your air views?
Fantastic!

Flood.

Well……………..as much as 40-45 minutes on a bad day:p
(i.e. in the Summer when all the grockles are here)

batbay – seems a long distance for Tesco! How long does it take?

G-SJCH stand for Sir John Charles Hoddinott – a former Chief Constable of Hampshire

Excellent pic, Moondance! Now you can all see the full extent of my world. Today we shall be travelling across the whole width of the Island to Tesco – but I’ll have to give the car a good check over first.;)
Thanks for the info Ren Frew, I’ll follow that up.

G-SJCH is the reg, and I remember that the first bit stands for Sir John, but can’t remember the rest of his name! Flood, do you know it?

Originally posted by wannabe pilot
Batbay, search for Irfanview on the forum. Many people have mentioned it before, including myself. It’s on here somewhere!

Go to www.irfanview.com and download the programme (it’s free). Once installed you can use it to view,sharpen, change colours, brightness,gamma contrast etc. and most importantly compress the file sizes to fit onto here and into e-mails.

Once installed click on “file” in the top left corner to open a picture from “My Pictures” on the hard drive. Then click on “image” two options to the right. This opens up a host of options including “resize-resample”.

Click on this and either manually type in the size required or use one of the options on the right. I normally check “800×600” for posting on here as that size fits the page format nicely.

Then click “OK” and save the picture by going back into “File” and selecting either “Save” to save and overwrite it to it’s original file source, or “Save As” to select a different name or file destination for the altered picture.

You will be offered a quality setting option when you save, it’s up to you to experiment with this to find a level that keeps your pictures under 100k for posting. I find that 75% usually works if you can’t keep them under 100k at 100% quality setting.

😀

I’m a sucker for views like that Isle of Wight aerial pic – bloody lovely! Well done that photographer.

Thanks!:D

Batbay, search for Irfanview on the forum. Many people have mentioned it before, including myself. It’s on here somewhere!

“I’ll have a look for it” Ho! Ho! Not through four thousand five hundred Posts 😮
Give me a clue, Al:)

FLOOD: Thanks for the pic and the interesting info;)

Ren Frew : My e-mailing is as bad as my photography:mad: …. I need to suss how to get a pic down to acceptable size, but I have a feeling you’ve already covered this in an earlier post – I’ll have a look for it.;) Thanks.

Originally posted by batbay
Yes, the weather is bad, (supposed to be Sunny Isle of Wight!)
Can’t see that protusion Flood, I’ve taken a poor pic – and asked Ren Frew if he can post it for me.
……and he’s still circling.

I can post it if you e-mail me it yes. Haven’t received any correspondence so far though ?

Originally posted by Jeanske_SN
But what plane was it then?

A Britten Norman Defender 4000 of the Hampshire Police Authority.
It is like this one but with the registration G-SJCH (and this one is from the Greater Manchester Police).

The Defender in police service can stay airborne for over 5 hours
and carries a thermal imaging camera with a live video downlink and can capable of sending images to the officers on the ground or in the force’s control room while in flight.
I’d post a pic of my own but they would all be from negatives and I can’t be bothered to search and put the thing through my neg scanner tonight. Sorry.

Flood.

It is now:D. But what plane was it then?

Mark and Flood – you guessed correctly – here is a local news item:-

Armed police arrest man in Freshwater
A man has been arrested and bailed after an operation involving armed police in Freshwater. Officers were called to an address in Solent Gardens just before 6.00pm last night to investigate reports of a weapon being seen. A police spotter plane and dog unit were also alerted. A 41-year-old man from Freshwater has been bailed until June on suspicion of unlawful possession of a firearm.

And you all thought the Isle of Wight was peaceful…….:mad:

If it is Boxer – the Hampshire police Defender – it’ll be back to Lee on Solent.

Flood.

Well he appears to have found a home to go to – maybe given up on Bembridge and spending the night on Southampton.
Could be worse, it’s a horrible night to be out!

Oh sorry. Well, apparently it is.