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Landing at punta San Francisquito

gringorio - 12-11-2007 at 12:18 AM

Landing at Punta San Francisquito in search of fish tacos (2002)

Thanks Capt. Mike!

http://www.bajatrekker.com/phpbb/files/punta_san_francisquit...

more Baja adventure videos at http://www.bajatrekker.com


[Edited on 12-14-2007 by gringorio]

capt. mike - 12-11-2007 at 06:20 AM

wow Greg, i almost forgot these. that was a great "hoover" suck out on short approach, got our attention remember?:yes:

Ken Bondy - 12-11-2007 at 07:32 AM

Fantastic clip!!! Watched it about ten times in a row :biggrin: Brought back lots of good memories. When was that??
++Ken++

gringorio - 12-11-2007 at 09:02 AM

Yeah, I've been enjoying too! And yeah, Mike, it sure did get our attention! :O The flat colors in the rendered video doesn't do the scence justice - the deep agua green-blue of the water right as we reach the beach over the palapas is amazing in the original video... And the north wind was cranking as you could see by the white caps on the sea.

It was a trip in 2002 when Capt. Mike flew my brother and I from Tucson to Loreto and back for the Grupo Tortuguero conference - it was a great trip!

Since I was uploading video from our last trip I dug through my old DV tapes and found the ones from this trip so I decided to make a few shorts to post. I'll be adding a few more soon - lotsa fun seeing this stuff again!

Ken, did you fly with Capt. Mike or others?

:bounce:

greg

David K - 12-11-2007 at 09:09 AM

Ken is a pilot and has a clip of taking off from SFO on his web site... or somewhere (I just looked at kenbondy.com and couldn't find the clip)... Ken?

[Edited on 12-11-2007 by David K]

capt. mike - 12-11-2007 at 12:06 PM

yeah, Ken is an old hand at baja flying. in a Baron i think.

a note pirep on the approach:

the surface winds were blowing hard out of the NNE at maybe 20-30 kts making it a heavy Xwind but there were random shifts as well.
so with controls nearly fully crossed and the right wing dipped we crabbed in to anticipate our "kick out" maneuver right before touch down.
When low and over the main cantina bldgs we caught a strong downdraft nose on as the xwind shifted, instantly advancing the throttle to full power kept us from being thrown down hard from about 15 ft - possibly resulting in broken gear and flats!

When you hear Dave my co piloto say "nice save" in the video, he's commenting on the last second adjustment before we were able to safely flare.

we stopped for lunch and to check ouit the area per Greg's request - it blew so hard on the ground we couldn't wait to get the hell out of there!

Paulina - 12-11-2007 at 12:42 PM

I really liked that.

Ken Bondy - 12-11-2007 at 01:15 PM

David this might be what you are referring to. I don't have any video on my site, I don't think it was invented yet when I was doing a lot of Baja flying :lol:



I have a few more photos from my flying days at:

http://www.kenbondy.com/flying.htm

++Ken++

Natalie Ann - 12-11-2007 at 01:39 PM

Niiiiice landing, Capt. Mike. And thank you Gringorio for filming and sharing. Can't wait for my turn to land there!

Nena

capt. mike - 12-11-2007 at 04:46 PM

hey Nena - have you seen Cabo Boyz latest vid?? i was hoping CAP would have it up on U tube by now.
i think its out of post production. you know it has to be killer!!:yes::yes:

Natalie Ann - 12-11-2007 at 05:00 PM

Most definitely it's a killer, Capt. Mike. I'm sure he'll share it with ya soon.;D

Nena

ELINVESTIG8R - 12-11-2007 at 05:16 PM

Cap that looked like a lot of fun flying around with you and you made it look effortless when you landed. I’d sure fly with you anytime.

gringorio - 12-11-2007 at 07:13 PM

Great photo Ken! Cool to know you're a pilot!! :bounce:
Quote:
Originally posted by Ken Bondy
David this might be what you are referring to. I don't have any video on my site, I don't think it was invented yet when I was doing a lot of Baja flying :lol:



I have a few more photos from my flying days at:

http://www.kenbondy.com/flying.htm

++Ken++