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So the fella that I met at the Heidelberg Air Show gave me a call on Thursday night and said we can go for a flight tonight. Got to Rand Airport and we took off around sunset in a Cessna 172.

First went over Vereeniging, swung around and went past Hillbrow, on to Sandton, Midrand, Centurion and back to Rand Airport. One hour and 15 minute flight - awesome!

Just before take-off




Airborne




The GPS (We actually hit 144knots at a stage)




Coming up on Vereeniging




The Heineken brewery




Coming up on the Joburg CBD




Hillbrow




The Wanderers club




Sandton, doll!






Centurion area (I think)








Those high lamps a bloody powerful




Pretty light patterns






Heading back South




Some more Sandton




More Hillbrow




JHB CBD (Pretty innit?)




Just before we landed

Very nice shot's indeed

Flippin' difficult to get it right. Most of the time I was using 1/30 shutter speed, so a lot of pics were blurred... Even these are not that good, but it was a great experience!

Dodging wrote:Flippin' difficult to get it right. Most of the time I was using 1/30 shutter speed, so a lot of pics were blurred... Even these are not that good, but it was a great experience!

Nice pics! Can imagine the difficulty. F-stop of the lens? What F setting used? ISO setting?

That smog makes a beautiful red sunset!

I was using F1.8, 1/30 shutter, ISO 1600, Manual mode


I'm stunned I got as many pics as I did

Hi Andre

What is it like to fly in those Cessnas? I've alaways been sceptical even at just thinking about it. Pictures are awesome. Do you know more or less the altitude you flew?

Shwweeet

Donkey wrote:Hi Andre

What is it like to fly in those Cessnas? I've alaways been sceptical even at just thinking about it. Pictures are awesome. Do you know more or less the altitude you flew?

Shwweeet

I've always reckoned you haven't experienced flying until you've been in one of these. It's an awesome experience. Being so light compared to other commercial aircrafts, the tend to move around (pitch , yaw and tilt) much more.

Maybe one day I'll get an opportunity, who knows?

Dodging wrote:I was using F1.8, 1/30 shutter, ISO 1600, Manual mode


I'm stunned I got as many pics as I did

Phew! That's maxing out the low light settings ..... pretty good pics though. At ISO 1600 I would have anticipated the pics to be more grainy. Nice.

WoW
Cool pics
Well done

Hey Donkey!

It really is an awesome experience in the small plane. A little bit bumpy, but I got used to it real quick. Most the time we were at around 6700ft above sea level (about 1200ft above ground here in Jhb

Mud Dog wrote:

Dodging wrote:I was using F1.8, 1/30 shutter, ISO 1600, Manual mode


I'm stunned I got as many pics as I did

Phew! That's maxing out the low light settings ..... pretty good pics though. At ISO 1600 I would have anticipated the pics to be more grainy. Nice.

Yeah that's one area where Nikon really outperforms the competion... In the not so distant past, Canon was chasing megapixels while Nikon worked on image quality. Recently they are pretty much on par again

Kinda looks like what I see from the seat of my Hilux, being higher then most vehicles...

great pics!!!

Very nice from up there.Something many people wil never see.

CasKru wrote: I've always reckoned you haven't experienced flying until you've been in one of these. It's an awesome experience. Being so light compared to other commercial aircrafts, the tend to move around (pitch , yaw and tilt) much more.

Amen!

Piloted something similar (tail dragger though) as well as a microlight before, great fun having to compensate for gusts , thermals etc. Even more fun is a stall turn