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Here are a couple more videos–these are a bit larger than the short video in the previous post, so you will need high speed internet for sure..

• flyover (18MB) : This is a 24 second shot of us flying over the lake–first from our fly-in from the northwest and then almost directly over the house. Both shots have a freeze frame that adds a yellow arrow pointing at the house.
• exterior walkaround (24MB) : This is a 2 minute shot of the street scene up and down the street and then a walk around the house.

UPDATE: I had no idea just how bad Microsoft Windows was It appears they do not have a MPEG-2 codec installed by default in Windows Media Player. If your video player complains about the format, you can use a free open-source codec I uploaded to my webserver; just download, run the .exe to start the install, leave all the defaults and then try again. Here it is: DScaler MPEG-2 codec (688KB)

On Friday, March 10th, I got a nice personalized trip to Charlottesville via my good friends Dave Lawlor and Ron Laurenzo. Dave wanted some dual engine time for his continued pilot training and Ron had the day off (he’s a charter pilot by day) so he went along as co-pilot and we took off for Charlottesville. Although the ride down was a bit rough (some fairly gusty winds) we had a great time spending the day in Charlottesville and visiting the house and seeing the latest progress. The trip back was very enjoyable as the wind was calm and the sky was beautiful. Since it was so nice, we flew over the lake and got some flyover pictures of the house from the air.

Rather than putting all the pictures from that trip in the blog directly, you can see the whole album at our “smugmug” albums page. If you have high speed internet, you should switch to the “slideshow” view and select fullscreen w/captions to see the best version of the pictures.

Just for fun I put together a short video clip that takes all the pictures that are basically a straight-on view of the lot from day 1 until now. You can access that by clicking on this MPEG video link. It is about 5MB in size, which should be nothing if you have a high speed connection. If clicking on the link doesn’t do anything for you, you may want to right click and save it to your local computer and then play through Windows Media Player or whatever video application you have.