Best Mt bike/flying combination, awesome trails 300 yards from the airstrip.
And beautiful flight too.

I like to hear that stall warning device stay on after touchdown. There should be more emphasis on use of flaps and pitch to slow down and less emphasis on brakes, in my opinion.

Good job.

Turned out OK but that ground fog was a little creepy from a ways out.

I am always looking for places to mountian bike nearby with the airplane! Is there a trail guide available online?

That single track looks wonderful.

IIRC they close Ranger Creek in October though.

Mountain Doctor wrote:Turned out OK but that ground fog was a little creepy from a ways out.

I am always looking for places to mountian bike nearby with the airplane! Is there a trail guide available online?

That single track looks wonderful.

IIRC they close Ranger Creek in October though.

Download the free app called Trailforks. It’s helped me find some mountain biking trails near airports. It’s also nice because it has trail maps with trail names, distances, elevation changes, difficulty levels and more. Ranger Creek is awesome for mountain biking!

Awesome! great tip!

I'm reminded of Carl Sandburg's poem, Fog:

The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

I'm not trying to be hypercritical, but I've had some uncomfortable experiences with fog, both flying and driving, in which I wouldn't trust it to remain stable even through a landing from short final. Some of those experiences were in IMC approaches, but the principle is the same. While like Sandburg says, it can sit and then move on, it can also suddenly and without warning pounce and obliterate what is directly ahead. So if it were me, and it wasn't an emergency, I wouldn't have landed.

Cary

I hear you Cary, but it looked pretty mild through the front windscreen. The glare seemed like fog, I thought, in the early part of the video.

Fog is dangerous stuff. You can start a field above just a few feet of fog and stir it up so much you can't work. Or the sun can come up and cause it to lift dangerously.

Rain on sun warmed vegetation can cause rapidly forming steam fog. I had to make a very quick precautionary in that once.

I was very happy to always have a second pilot in my NG Huey flying in the Midwest. Many times, late in an instrument approach, we would be in and out of the clouds or even fog. Whoever was flying knew the other pilot would not take over until he saw the runway. Loved that sequenced light that stabbed up into the soup, however. Flying Hueys in the Midwest meant lots of IMC.

It wasnt fog, was smoke, they had a big fire, we were only able to ride the lower trails , everything else was closed, even the fire hoses are still there.

Wasnt that bad visibility wise.

Thanks. I thought that might be the case.

After reading the thread that Zane started about boiling the frog, I'm not sure I'd be any happier, knowing I was landing in smoke instead of fog!

Cary

This is how it was once down at the airfield, and forest.