High-winged twin-engine 'Survey' aircraft?

[eharding]

simonej said:

mattviatura said:

Aargh this thread didn't go as planned. I wanted to know what it was up to not what it was.

Never mind, the sneaky Islander is up now.

Oh, well I can tell you some of the things we got up to when I was flying survey, if that helps?

Is Gerald Cooper still running his Commander(s)? out of Wickenby - I remember he pitched up at the aerobatic Nationals at Conington a few years ago - 2005 or 2006 - to give a bit of support in what I think was a Turbo Commander. Decided to go round on the first approach though - I could have told him he was never going to get it stopped on the runway when he was doing what looked like 240 knots over the threshold. With the gear up. Climb performance on the go-round was impressive though.

Edited by eharding on Tuesday 14th August 21:44

[CTjockey]

It'll be this one then....
Ravenair's Observer, flying over Barton t'other day. Caught me off guard so not the best of pics..



Cheers
Gary

ETA: it was going back to Liverpool from Prestwick.

Edited by CTjockey on Thursday 16th August 13:58

[Eric Mc]

mattviatura said:

Aargh this thread didn't go as planned. I wanted to know what it was up to not what it was.

Never mind, the sneaky Islander is up now.

You did say "what is it?" in your original post.

[magpie215]

OneDs said:

It i'll be Ordnance Survey doing aerial work their air photography people are based normally in Blackpool.

Edited by OneDs on Tuesday 14th August 15:29

Not any more

[mrloudly]

One of the best trips I had was a photographic survey in a Navahoe Chieftan G-NERC out of Coventry. We spent about three hours running up and down the Gower Peninsula
taking photos, then came back at approximately zero feet through the Brecon Beacons :-) Cool what you can get away with in a survey aircraft ;-)