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Friday 11/2/07

I got my butt out of work at 5:05 today so I could get in a little after-work flying. Rush hour traffic sucks. I got to the field around 6:20.

There were already several pilots there, and everyone was already flying. I got setup and did a forward into about a 3 mph breeze. No sweat.

A view of tonight’s parking lot:

I ran into Matt and chased him around with the camera for a little while:

It got dark pretty quickly:

Toward the end of my flying, I spotted a coyote. I was able to get a picture that is almost recognizable. Almost… I guess it’s not too bad for a shot of a wild animal on the run from about 40′ AGL in very low light.

It was finally time to come in… I was on my landing approach and I decided I was coming down a little too fast, so I gave it some gas to make sure I’d make the field. Then I turned off the motor, which I guess was not at a very good time or something because I suddenly swung at the ground really fast and had a really hard and somewhat painful landing, which ended up with some sliding on my knees. What the hell was that? I hadn’t blown a landing like that in a long ass time. I guess I’ll chalk it up to needing to eat and feeling pretty hypoglycemic at the time. Anyway it sucked, but luckily there was no damage to my equipment and I was able to shake it off.

That’s it for this entry. 30 minutes in the air. Many shots fired, hardly any good ones. Late evening is really hard for flying pics. Pictures or not, flying is always a good time!

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