My first solo cross country KMMV- KTMK-KAST 1/28/07

So I guess your next turn wasn't left?

Skystrider...that's funny.

Congrats on your 1st solo XC! The pics look quite familiar. One of my very first Commercial XC flights was along the same route of flight. I love the view from up there.

Thanks for sharing the pics!

Is that the mouth of Tillamook Bay?

Flying the coast in nice wx is some of the best and most beautiful scenery you can find.

I have flown that route before myself. We stayed overnite in a cabin at The Flying "M" and went from there to Tillamook, and then on to Astoria. I had a brother living at Hammond, OR. at that time. A great picture.


Bob

Nice picture. My first cross country was the reverse direction. I'm glad you had a safe and very photogenic trip.

tom

That is the mouth of Tillamook bay. Almost exactly 2 years ago. First BFR is next month.

Been there going the other way in August '07. The wx was great and a great view. We took off from Kelso and headed west. When we got to Astoria I told the Super Cat we'd better turn right 'cause I didn't think I would make it to the fuel stop if we did NOT turn left!
HC

Flew...

...the entire Pacific coastline from SAN to the Canadian border in 2003. Part of our nearly 15,000 mile flight around the border of the entire lower 48. Did it clockwise.

No other part of the border was as beautiful!

Congrats to you,

Bob

Skystrider wrote:So I guess your next turn wasn't left?

I sold a '63 C172 I had which later ended up bought by a guy from Eureka, CA. He made that left turn...

Gump

NTSB Identification: LAX92AMS03 .
The docket is stored on NTSB microfiche number 46593.
Accident occurred Sunday, March 01, 1992 in PACIFIC OCEAN
Probable Cause Approval Date: 8/26/1993
Aircraft: CESSNA 172D, registration: N2425U
Injuries: 2 Fatal.

THE CERTIFICATED PRIVATE PILOT AND A PASSENGER DEPARTED A COASTAL AIRPORT ON A NIGHT CROSS COUNTRY FLIGHT TO SO. LAKE TAHOE, CA, WITH A PLANNED TIME ENROUTE OF 3 HOURS. ABOUT 6 HOURS AFTER THE ESTIMATED DEPARTURE TIME, THE PILOT CONTACTED A FLIGHT SERVICE STATION, REPORTING THAT HE WAS LOST AND WAS ON TOP OF AN OVERCAST IN INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS WITH LESS THAN ONE HOUR OF FUEL REMAINING. THROUGH COMMUNICATIONS EFFORTS RADAR CONTACT WITH SEATTLE CENTER WAS ESTABLISHED; THE AIRPLANE WAS LOCATED ABOUT 110 MILES WEST OF THE U.S. COAST LINE AND GIVEN RADAR VECTORS TO RETURN TO THE COAST. ABOUT 15 MINUTES AFTER RADAR CONTACT, THE PILOT REPORTED FUEL EXHAUSTION, AND INDICATED THAT NO SURVIVAL EQUIPMENT WAS ON BOARD THE AIRPLANE. RADAR CONTACT WAS LOST WHEN THE AIRPLANE WAS ABOUT 70 MILES WEST OF THE COAST LINE. A SEARCH FAILED TO LOCATE THE AIRPLANE. THE PILOT AND PASSENGER ARE PRESUMED TO HAVE RECEIVED FATAL INJURIES AND THAT THE AIRPLANE WAS DESTROYED.

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO ADEQUATELY EVALUATE THE WEATHER CONDITIONS, AND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO IMC CONDITIONS WHICH RESULTED IN THE PILOT BECOMING LOST AND DISORIENTED. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE LACK OF TOTAL AERONAUTICAL EXPERIENCE AND FUEL EXHAUSTION.

Holy crap. That story gives me the shivers.

Remind me to not buy one your planes.

Darwin scores another victory..

skybobb wrote:.....We stayed overnite in a cabin at The Flying "M" .....

I'm guessing that the Flying M is still closed? Too bad, it was a fun place to stay at or even just fly in for eating purposes. Anybody living down that way ever hear anything about maybe somebody buying & reopening it?

Eric

GumpAir wrote:

Skystrider wrote:So I guess your next turn wasn't left?

I sold a '63 C172 I had which later ended up bought by a guy from Eureka, CA. He made that left turn...

That narrative gave me a sick feeling...

I remember reading a Never Again column where the writer told of a long day of flying. His last flight of the day in his personal aircraft was from Las Vegas to LA. It was night already, the air was calm, his auto pilot was on, and he felt relaxed. The next thing he knew ATC was calling him asking him to do an immediate 180. He started the turn and asked ATC what was wrong. The informed him that they had been calling him for 30 minutes and he was now well west of the coast line. Turned out he'd been sleeping for well over an hour.

svanarts wrote:

GumpAir wrote:

Skystrider wrote:So I guess your next turn wasn't left?

I sold a '63 C172 I had which later ended up bought by a guy from Eureka, CA. He made that left turn...

That narrative gave me a sick feeling...

I remember reading a Never Again column where the writer told of a long day of flying. His last flight of the day in his personal aircraft was from Las Vegas to LA. It was night already, the air was calm, his auto pilot was on, and he felt relaxed. The next thing he knew ATC was calling him asking him to do an immediate 180. He started the turn and asked ATC what was wrong. The informed him that they had been calling him for 30 minutes and he was now well west of the coast line. Turned out he'd been sleeping for well over an hour.

Whooo Wheee! I hope he found out who those controllers were and bought them gift certificates to a nice steakhouse!

Skystrider wrote:..........
Whooo Wheee! I hope he found out who those controllers were and bought them gift certificates to a nice steakhouse!

For ruining his trip to Hawaii?

Yes that is the Tillamook bay bar.

While you guys are contemplating those airplane stories..........and that absolutely beautiful picture.......

That bar between the west end of those jettys has taken a bunch of lives this last five years. When the boats cross that bar, and the winter pacific storms are raging out somewhere throwing big rollers at the coast, conditions can get downright nasty. Mother nature doesn't just 'dish it out' to airplanes.

Thanksgiving weekend 08 a wave picked up a 50' crabber and set it on the jetty. The captain climbed off the boat and another wave promptly picked it (the boat) back up and put it in the water and rolled it about twice, then broke it up. It also picked up the captain and washed him into the drink. Somehow he survived, but both the crew drowned and one has yet to be found. I think seven is the most to die (recently) about 4 yrs. ago. A charter fishing boat got rolled, among the lost were a father and grown son going fishing together.

The wife and I were down there Thanksgiving for the weekend and heard and then watched the Coast Guard's 2 choppers and 2 boats searching for survivors. FD and rescue were trolling the beaches, too. We were back there this past weekend (picture perfect weather, like above) and got the update that one was still missing.

Littlecub

hotrod150 wrote:

skybobb wrote:.....We stayed overnite in a cabin at The Flying "M" .....

I'm guessing that the Flying M is still closed? Too bad, it was a fun place to stay at or even just fly in for eating purposes. Anybody living down that way ever hear anything about maybe somebody buying & reopening it?

Eric

Yes, I'm sorry to say it is still closed for fly in business. This was a number of years back when our family stayed there. I haven't heard of any one opening the runway back up.

Bob