Anybody commenting on the current paint scheme may care to reflect on the the late 1960’s attempt, whilst on the Turnhouse gate.

I was going through a similar thought process last year….the Fuji is a fine bit of kit, beautifully designed and very compact………….but………..I went for the Canon 300D in the end, and haven’t regretted it.
I bumped into a colleague from work at Legends, who was using a Fuji for the first time and he was finding the shutter lag frustrating (lots of pics of tails flashing past!)

Did I click a cliquer clicking?

Bristol is 2011m long, LBA is 2250m

You are, perhaps, making the mistake of assuming that runway length is the ONLY thing that determines take off performance. Yes, it is important, but you also must assure OBSTACLE clearance in the event of an engine failure after V1. 32 at LBA is very definitely obstactle limited. An increase in runway length would, however, help…..using a technique called (by Mr. Boeing) Improved Climb, you can use excess runway length to acclerate to a higher than normal take off speed (and higher than normal V2) to improve your initial climb gradient, and therefore improve obstacle clearance.

Moondance/wysiwyg,

Do you mostly “hand-fly” the initial part of the SID/Departure Route or do you try and stick the AP on as soon as possible?

Bit of a off-topic question but just interested to know. 🙂

Regards
Flex 35

Difficult to generalise, but typically most folks tend to hand fly until after flap retraction. Depends on circumstances…flying a familiar SID at a quiet time of day is a good time for some manual flying. Equally, departing somewhere unfamiliar at 0300 with thunderstorms flashing away, far, far safer to enagage the AP ASAP….all down to common sense basically.

On what used to be called the Instrument Rating on the sim (which is now called a Licence Proficiency Check or LPC…don’t you just love Euro-speak) we are now encouraged to use the Flight Management Computer and all the navigation modes (LNAV for navigation and holding for example) to maximum extent – i.e. make it as realistic as possible.

In years gone by, you were expected to fly an FMC/EFIS equipped heavy jet manually on a short route (on the sim), with only the Flight Director for guidance…holds had to be manually flown using raw data. This was clearly unrealistic, so the current approach is to operate the aircraft exactly as you would in the real world…suits me!

A few made it through the murk to Derby…departing for Hucknall on Sunday morning. The Dragon didn’t nightstop, but made a fine flypast.

Nice pics, awful colours!