{"id":7740,"date":"2013-08-12T21:27:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T20:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/?p=7740"},"modified":"2025-07-27T14:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:59:45","slug":"bush-flying-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/2013\/bush-flying-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Flying Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am now famous in the area of &#8220;plane landing in dodgy places photography&#8221;. The following snapshots are from a DVD called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsockproductions.com\/online-store.html\">Bush Flying Basics<\/a>&#8220;, an instructional video for teaching pilots how to land in places where they probably shouldn&#8217;t be trying. They used a photo from here on my blog of Poolburn reservoir as an example of smooth ice you can land on. If you happen to have the DVD, you can see it at the 28 mins and 50 second mark \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2013\/08\/bush-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7741\" alt=\"Bush Flying Basics\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2013\/08\/bush-2.png\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2013\/08\/bushfire-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7743\" alt=\"Bush Flying Basics\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2013\/08\/bushfire-1.png\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2013\/08\/bush-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7742\" alt=\"Bush Flying Basics - Poolburn\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2013\/08\/bush-3.png\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2013\/08\/3813277_orig.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2013\/08\/3813277_orig.png\" alt=\"Bush Flying Basics\" width=\"452\" height=\"643\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2013\/08\/3813277_orig.png 452w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2013\/08\/3813277_orig-246x350.avif 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am now famous in the area of &#8220;plane landing in dodgy places photography&#8221;. 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