Kase Filter System (K9) Review

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Kase Filter System Review

(K9 Filter Holder – 100mm and 150mm filters @ 1.1mm thk)

Kit Contents

– K9 geared Filter Holder, fitted with 1.1mm filter slots (3 integral slots) **

– Adapter Ring, geared magnetic, 77mm

– 90mm Circular Polariser (CPL)

– Filter Holder Bag

– 1.2 Gradual Grey Soft 100x150mm 1.1mm Slim Glass filter

– 0.9 Gradual Grey Soft 100x150mm 1.1mm Slim Glass filter

– 1.2 Reverse Gradual Grey 100x150mm 1.1mm Slim Glass filter

– ND1000 / ND3.0 (10 stops) Neutral Density (ND) 100x150mm 1.1mm Slim Glass filter

– ND64 / ND1.8 (6 stops) Neutral Density (ND) 100x150mm 1.1mm Slim Glass filter

** Note: The Master Kit comes with both the 1.1mm and 2mm filter slots so if you own a set of 2 mm filters already you can use those as an interim or ongoing basis

Preface: I have used graduated and ND filters for several years, albeit pretty well limited to the Lee Filter system hence this review is primarily compared to the Lee offerings.

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“I survived a Piper Seneca in flight break-up” Reprinted from Aviation Safety, April 1982

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Flutter Survivor:

“I survived a Piper Seneca in flight break-up”

Reprinted from Aviation Safety, April 1982

I found your article on Seneca tail flutter quite Interesting and it brought back some sobering memories of December 27, 1976, as I am one of the pilots who luckily survived a Piper Seneca in flight break-up, I would just like to add some comments that may help aircraft owners realize the potentially serious problems with trim tab free play.

The flutter testing flights for N33589 was not taken as very dangerous because of our previous success with the Seneca. In fact, I had just completed a series of flutter flights on a Seneca II equipped with Robertson spoilers and tip tanks. The accelerometer traces were good, but the camera that recorded the speeds and altitude malfunctioned. The FAA wouldn’t accept our data without speed verifications, and by the time the bad film was developed the aircraft was reconfigured for delivery. The owner was impatient and wanted his aircraft, The FAA allowed us to deliver this aircraft with some restrictions, and flutter testing was to be completed on N33589.

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Sunset

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Sunset

 

Colours splashed from east to west
Crisp air tingling my skin.
This is the time I love the best
Spending time with him.
He becons me into his arms of rest
To stay through the nights long hours
He helped me pass the days severe test
As I count the blessings he Showers.
Tis the sunset so sweet it is
As nature’s syphoney swells
As I consider A new how
wonderfully I am blest
On this gold and red sunset.

 

Neil Granger

Inner voice

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Inner voice

 

Go easy on me
I am fragile and weak
The road has been long
And the goal I seek
Alludes me as a mirage
Or highest peak
Go easy on me
When you speak

 

Neil Andrew Granger

Recognition

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Recognition

In this enchanted moment

You offer to me this part

Of you when in nuptial bliss

You took your first kiss

Your inner beauty shone

In rays about your face.

 

Still you give unconsciously

A gift time will never fade,

Lady your glow.

Neil Andrew Granger

Let it Go

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Let it go,

Don’t hold the

Hurt any longer.

Release it and

Your heart will.

Grow stronger

If your mind wonders

Over the dry land of

Parched dreams, receive the

Rain that healing brings.

 

What is bottled up

Within you release;

Your true friends are

Waiting to bring succour

And relief as gifts of

Their love for you.

 

Neil Andrew Granger

Hope

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Hope

The bleak night

Followed by the day.

Although you feel it

Helpless try to continue on.

 

Let hope stay by

Your side so close

It becomes the air

You breathe.

 

Do not become

Suffocated by despondency,

Grey skies will turn blue

The sun will follow the rain.

Neil Andrew Granger

Up

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Up

When I feel low

There is only way

To go and that is up.

Through dirt

And grime I climb

And find myself

On a mountain side,

Looking up.

That is how I wish

My life to be,

Always thinking up.

Neil Andrew Granger

Gracious Giver

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Gracious Giver

Soul of generosity

Your spirit gives

From the wealth

Within your heart.

A storehouse full

Of finest motives

Priceless as the

Rare works of art.

 

From this well inside

Your being a spring

Overflows watering the

Tender plants that grow

Up beside you they know

Of your compassion

And the great giver also.

Neil Andrew Granger

Flower

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Flower

A golden flower on a tree

A lamp of peace

And serenity, for a moment

I stand in awe while its

Perfect beauty teachers me.

I need not reach dazzling

Heights or touch the sky in

Starry flight. All there is for

Me to do is let my beauty

Reach from me to you.

Neil Andrew Granger

Firefly Dream

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Firefly Dream

Oh! Little lights you fly by

Night hold me close and

Make it right. With your

Angel wings abuzz light my

Way through all this fuzz.

 

Oh, little fireflies of mystery

with winks and dashes of

integrity let my life with

mentors be always there to

inspire me. I in passion shall

live my life guided by Your

light.

 

Neil Andrew Granger

Beggings

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Beggings

Baby wrapped in

Swaddling clothes

Soft innocence

Embalmed in love.

 

We are the ones

Who brought

You here to this

Fallen paradise above.

 

Gradually you

Shall blossom

Into what you

May become.

 

As sure as rain

Falls to the earth

Opening up new

Fern fronds.

 

Thoughts of ecstasy

Our constant delight,

When you were first

Felt in our bodies

The wonderful night.

 

Our gift, given

To us from loves

Storehouse within;

You have given us

Yourself something

More beautiful than

Material things.

 

Neil Andrew Granger

True Calling

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True Calling

This moment

Treasure

When in doubt

Reminisce on it.

 

The higher purpose

Exists above fleeting

Feelings which ebb

And, flow.

 

Those around you

Know when upon

Your face it glows.

 

Copyright
Neil Andrew Granger