Mapping a Glacier in a Pipistrel Virus SW!!! 15,000ft

[@PaulNicklenPhotography]

Such a well done page. Thanks.

[@jrbarber7]

Thank you Darryl. Always enjoy your videos. I'd love to have a Pipistrel but am getting a little far along in life to take on another challenge. Down to the point, is my vision gonna hold out to keep driving. Sigh!

[@Bellerophontess]

really great content, keep it coming!

[@Tharkunify]

Amazing views. I sometimes forget that places like that exist. Wow.

[@Bellerophontess]

have you already made a video going more into detail about your mapping business? i.e. what kind of jobs you do most often / bring in most of the money, how the market has been developing since you started your business, where you see yourself in the future. i think that would be super interesting!

[@DarrylZubot]

Nope not yet but that's not a bad idea.

[@damienmills5553]

Yes please!

[@guysouthwell4497]

Yes ! Do it please !

[@yuriisolopov9113]

Perfect plane and perfect job!

[@sailhavasu]

Always live your stuff Darryl!

[@N937LC]

What happened to Darryl?? I enjoyed his videos

[@laheu]

It sure is a pretty place from that high up. Jealous of the view on this flight I'm sure everyone here can relate to filling their car up with 60 or 80 L of gasoline; that fuel burn really is something else

[@maxbootstrap7397]

Looks like more fun than Oshkosh to me! :-)

[@wpw4508]

Pipistrel sure seems to win on efficiency. And looking forward to electric flight, in 5 or 6 years, when the battery weights come down, they're going to make out like bandits!

[@mcanning51]

Totally awesome! Thanks for taking us along on your survey.

[@jasonerickson1445]

Did you have formal training on mapping? I’m a low time pilot and would like to get into mapping Business for myself.

[@cryptotom2428]

Love your vids

[@alyoungwerth9908]

Hey Darryl, glad to see your oil pressure is better. I've seen mine get a bit worse over time with altitude but I only get down to mid-30s at 14.5K feet. Your KTAS seems pretty low for DA of 10K feet at 98% throttle. I'm usually pulling 135 KTAS at that throttle setting in my tri-gear Virus SW. I get pretty much the same result all the way to 14.5K just with a lower fuel burn. Is that pretty typical for your plane?

[@DarrylZubot]

I get about 125ktas at 14,500. My plane is heavy, ballistic chute, extra alternator on engine for survey gear, three floor holes re-enforced added decent weight to airframe, lots of avionics, hydraulic prop

[@DarrylZubot]

Al Youngwerth the larger oil lines really improved my pressure. With stock oil lines i was getting about 14psi at 15,000’

[@rc300xs]

I still think something is wrong, maybe the problem has been masked a bit?. I have a photo here over Ram Falls at 12,000 with an oil temp of 205F/96C and oil pressure sitting at 58psi. 912ULS 1400hrs. Seems the higher I go the better the pressure because of the lower oil temp in the cool air. I have to watch the temp/pressure more closely at low level on hot days.

[@MrNopehaha]

Darryl, how's it going, still doing surveying, haven't seen anything from you in a long time. Reply here and let us know you're good!

[@DarrylZubot]

Hey i'm still here! Still doing the aerial survey work but we've been building a house all winter and just have had zero time to make films. Will do something soon :)

[@MrNopehaha]

I know how that can be, good luck and hope it comes out better than you planned.

[@srnunan4783]

Feel free to show us some vid about the house build, and we'd all love to meet your family too :) Keep it up, great content

[@ethandsmyth9767]

As always, awesome video! Does your autopilot connect to your surveying equipment or is it all hand flown?

[@DarrylZubot]

Not exactly, I do fly my missions with autopilot by creating a GPX file from the survey flight data, the survey equipment isn't driving the autopilot, dynon skyview is

[@andreylegantyev8834]

Hi Darryl! Which camera is on the plane for aerial photography?

[@Fenixx117]

This is epic! I was looking at motorgliders like the Virus and they seem like a perfect aircraft. I'm also near you and would love a job aerial surveying. When I go flying I can see the edge of the rockies but I have never been that close. Any advice on how to get a job doing that? I'm doing my PPL still

[@DarrylZubot]

Hey, I created my own company and built clientele from scratch. It takes hard work, persistence and also some skill level to be able to do this work, its definitely not plug and play work, very customized systems that require lots of setup time, testing for accuracy. If you want to do it you just do it!

[@tomdavison9107]

Looks my routine, feed the dogs first!

[@qwerty12341244]

ive seen in a some other of your videos that you’ve had some trouble with your aircraft. Would you still recommend the pipistrel in spite of the issues?

[@DarrylZubot]

Yes, still my favourite aircraft design. Large windows, no wing struts, amazing fuel efficiency and speed. Just wish it had turbo.

[@alyoungwerth9908]

I have the same plane, fewer problems than Darryle but still it can still be a PITA plane at times (so is my 182). But there is no other plane that is so fun to fly, has such great visibility and has the incredible speed and efficiency of the Virus SW.

[@pabloelsur1624]

When we'll see next video, Darryl?

[@DarrylZubot]

Very soon!

[@elliottdiedrich3068]

You could have taken the loaner car into town instead of running on a 30 degree day but maybe it was already taken.

[@DarrylZubot]

Yep no loaner car was available

[@yacahumax1431]

I have the opportunity to get training on a pipistrel sinus. or pay a lot more and get a private pilot cert on a 172. I would like to go cross country. Do you have any recommendation?

[@Virtualmix]

Train on the cheapest airplane and fly the more expensive airplane once you have your PPL. The main differences between C172 and the Sinus are the engines and number of seats. Otherwise they're both airplanes with similar cruise speed and handling.

[@unclewerner]

Hi Darryl, what kind of camera and mapping software are you using?

[@DarrylZubot]

I have hasselblad A6d 100mp medium format. Using agisoft metashape pro. Pix4d does not work well with these large images

[@unclewerner]

@@DarrylZubot THX. Do you have the Hasselblad wing mounted nadir? I did write code for airborne cameras in the past... (So I'm curious...)

[@DarrylZubot]

fuzzel mounted nadir in the cargo bay. Have three floor ports in this aircraft, two in cargo bay and one under passenger seat. No wing struts on this aircraft so mounting it there is impossible.

[@unclewerner]

@@DarrylZubot what a dream plane;) thx for sharing.

[@lifeingeneral9111]

I wonder if it was a Chevy or a Ford that melted the last Ice Age

[@DarrylZubot]

The problem is the rate of this melting. The last ice age melted over thousands of years. Ours is happening within our lifetime.

[@lifeingeneral9111]

@@DarrylZubot not true, it's just the mind control you're being fed so listen up. the ice ages are over 25,000 year cycles, 25k to form 25k to melt; the ice over Pennsylvania was 13,000 feet deep so of course it too a long time to melt. the ice age, that has been BS'ed as well. yes there is an ice age but the still it's summer and winter but it just a tiny bit out of sync causing lots of snow but not quite long enough to melt it all by winter; which is how the glaciers are formed. another lie, ships going to Alaska filming the glaciers falling into the ocean and calling it warming when in fact they are frozen rivers of sort that have always moved toward down stream but through the miracle of dumbing down people, voila' human sheep! so what you are seeing is the tail end of the melting. if it takes 30 minutes for an ice cube to melt it doesn't take the last 1/8 of an inch of the cube 30 minutes to melt as well. our sun is on a 10,000 year cycle and the deserts of Africa are now shrinking toward the north, in the 70's they were growing toward the south. got all this info from three Canadians in 1979 with satellite imagery to back it all up but these days all that seems to have conveniently been left out of the equation. there are many evil agendas walking the earth disguised as good forces. case in point, why no dialogue on the ozone hole.... nothing. are we to believe that buy stopping pop cans we instantly saved the world. it's hard to think on your own after hundreds of years of propaganda; it's the reason it's so widely used.... it works! it's generally the smart, book smart, that are the most easily influenced by the the dogma. why do you think they stopped using the phrase "global warming" and segued into climate change, because they were exposed by facts and had to change the mantra. another fallacy, the republicans are the rich bastards on earth when in fact the richest people on earth are in fact democrats... look it up. ever wonder how the media, on every liberal channel, all say the same thing every night word for ward but yet all owned buy different people. ever wonder why google earth , a liberal group, air brushes the ice out of north Canadian waters every time they take new photos up there??????? ever wonder why Brexit has taken for ever to implement what the people of England voted on and only took seconds to start. on a better note. in the states we can't use any type of experimental aircraft for hire, why so up there?

[@Virtualmix]

@@lifeingeneral9111 Dude, just enjoy the video and keep your political opinions to yourself. We're just here because we love airplanes, we couldn't care less about your uneducated boomer thoughts on climate change, keep those comments for Facebook.

[@lifeingeneral9111]

@@Virtualmix piss off lib. this is what makes the world go round. if you can't take slit you own throat if it makes you happy. it was a good question dummy. put your mask back on and breath deep.

[@Virtualmix]

@@lifeingeneral9111 Take a deep breath and relax, you're starting to sound crazy. The world is a little more subtle than libs vs republicans, mask vs no mask, maybe you should go out a bit more.