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Sat May 17, 2014 8:07 pm

Valdez Fly-in STOL Competition

Flew my 170B from Fairbanks to Valdez for the Fly-in last weekend. Took video of most of the competition. Edited in pilot, airplane, and take-off/landing distances for satisfying the curiosity of the viewers! Enjoy the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjwCcQq38i8
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Sat May 17, 2014 8:33 pm

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Thanks for adding all the info with the video.
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Sat May 17, 2014 9:54 pm

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Very nice! I'm going to watch it again tomorrow! =D>
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Sat May 17, 2014 10:24 pm

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Wow! Good work, you got them all.
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Sat May 17, 2014 10:54 pm

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Thanks a lot. It was very well done.
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Sun May 18, 2014 7:06 am

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Great Video...!! And Great Event..!!
Amazing piloting skills...
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Sun May 18, 2014 7:08 am

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Well done! I enjoyed watching all the the planes/pilots and not just the super short stuff.
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Sun May 18, 2014 7:24 am

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Excellent coverage!

And thanks again for the first 40 seconds :wink:
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Sun May 18, 2014 10:02 am

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eric, thanks for the video =D>. steve henry ole most got his prop broke ther a few time's :shock:
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Sun May 18, 2014 2:26 pm

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Thanks for doing this! I like all the crowd comments and applause. Just to be clear on landing the tail wheel does not have to clear the line. On take off it is whatever wheel is last to leave.There was a lot of impressive flying and not just in the Bush class.
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Sun May 18, 2014 6:44 pm

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Super cool! Thanks.

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Sun May 18, 2014 8:44 pm

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whoops! only just found this video on you tube today, didnt relise you had posted it here and just posted in on the valdez video thread! sorry about that!

mate you did a brilliant job with that video, it was simply fantastic! a big thanks im sure from everyone who couldnt make it! was like being there
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Sun May 18, 2014 8:56 pm

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Hey Eric
Great video. I enjoyed meeting ya last week and checking out your 170. Great plane.
Hopefully I get to do it again next year.
Take care Gary
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Sun May 18, 2014 9:15 pm

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I sure wish I could have gone, I just didn't have enough vacation. Hopefully next year the weather will be as good. Maybe a few of us lower 48ers can do the RV thing.
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Mon May 19, 2014 1:52 am

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Gary, I missed seeing you up there. Where were you camped?
Eric, Loads of thanks for the video!
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Mon May 19, 2014 5:25 am

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Hey Matt
We had a camper right behind Ernesto's taco stand.
Sorry to have missed ya.
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Mon May 19, 2014 2:57 pm

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Best vid I've watched for a while. Thanks
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Sat May 24, 2014 10:03 am

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Great video. Thanks!
I'm very impressed with the C-172 pilots. They did great. I was surprised by how poor the performance was on the 182 with the Wren/katmai conversion. It got smoked by everything else on the video.
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Sat May 24, 2014 7:24 pm

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I finally got a chance to watch it start to finish - great video Eric!

And amazing piloting by all the guys in the competition! It's cool to see how many different techniques were employed pretty successfully.

It kind of seems like it doesn't matter as much what you do but instead how well you do it.
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Sun May 25, 2014 7:02 am

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Great video - only 182 I saw was the Wren - there were bound to be some old straight tail 182 there competing . 172's were impressive - cubs with there light with there light wing loading were very good. Wish they would have all competing aircraft loaded to there Gross weight to make it more accurate as to what is seen in what we would see .
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