Buzlatka,
I'll drop in next time over if that's OK
Jeremy

Just give me a ring before you show. I will make sure we didn't leave anything parked on the strip. I sent you a pm.

I finally have something meaningfull to contribute to this post.
.3 on the tach to the island compared to a 1.5 hour car ride, 20 minute ferry ride and then another 6 miles on the levy.

Um...that picture you posted makes your strip look like it's crisscrossed by wires and about three feet narrower than your wings...

The prop hub is 265' up and each blade is 40 meters (ravi- how many feet is that?)...

Ahem, forty meters is 131.2 feet, or 43.7 yards, or .024 miles or 1.98 chains, which of course is the same as .198 furlongs. I agree that this is much simpler than the archaic formula of 40 meters being 40,000 millimeters, 4,000 centimeters, or .04 kilometers.

On a more topical note, the wife and I flew to Sierraville and soaked with the hippies, then flew home. It's was particularly nice since I was just a passenger, no longer the pilot in command. She got her license without ever once setting foot in a nosewheel airplane!

Congratulations Mrs Ravi. I guess now you'll have to post individually.
Jeremy

Thought I would post a couple of pics of recent flight:

Obviously that did not go well.

TomD wrote:Thought I would post a couple of pics of recent flight:

Beautiful pix Tom WHere is that strip.

="iceman : Beautiful pix Tom WHere is that strip.

That's Stehekin WA...watch out for windy days and 200 ft trees on approach! Neat place but no camping on strip, you have to lug your stuff 1/2 mile to the campground.

Rocky

If you approach through the "slot" you dodge the big trees. This puts you on an angled base.

It is a blind approach but the strip shows up before you need to turn final.

Flew from Arlington up the N. Cascades Highway and dropped into the valley at Twisp pass.

Snow level was about 5500 and the foliage was outstanding on the trip.

Cheers,

Tom

RockyTFS wrote: ......... you have to lug your stuff 1/2 mile to the campground. Rocky

Last time I was there, a couple years ago, there were some carts like what you'd find at a marina for toting your gear from airstrip to campground. Provided jointly by USFS and WS-DOT as I understand it. If they weren't at the airstrip somebody was probably too lazy to return them after hauling stuff to camp. Or maybe they got stole. Nice either way,eh?

Eric

And when you leave the fish alone, caught from out the tent door, there's a wonderful waterfall, an old school house with desks and books still there and fresh baking and pie and coffee on the way to the 'village/port/floatplane dock' but don't tell anyone.

Last time I was there, a couple years ago, there were some carts like what you'd find at a marina ...

Yep, there were about four of the carts leaning against the log on Saturday.

The stream also had Kokanee spawning. Bright red little guys. Does anyone know why the Kokanee in Chelan are only 6" - 9" in length when adults?

Tom

Yeah, first time I was there the kokanee were running. Cool, seen fish in a river before but never so many or bright red like that. Seemed bigger than 6-9 inches, but that's just an impression.

Eric

Hey just got back from the yucon again. flew from Mayo to Faro to Watson lake to Muncho lake to Ft nelson to FT st john to Slave lake to Calling lake to Athabaska to Northbattleford.
About 20 hours in a supercub with 35 in bushwheels and a flat prop. Incidentally 35 in bushwheels are incredible I thought it was about the same sidewall as a 31/6 but no comparison .
We were running them at 1.5lb a little lower then recomended but you can run over rocks the sise of basket balls and not beat up the cub.
Landed on some small highcountry strips will post picks as soon as i figure out how ( still having trouble up loading picks)

35" BW's, those are the one's that use the 10" wheel? Whose wheels, Cleveland? Or does ABW sell their own wheel now?

I went on my annual pumpkin hunt. It's not a long flight, just 20 minutes north to Snohomish, though I had to detour via Langley to avoid clouds a little too low for me.

Most of the fun stuff happens on the ground, hiking a couple miles along the railroad and road, seeing a couple deer in some woods side the highway, hauling 20 pounds of pumpkin back, coping with seasonal allergies (ie, dead battery and wacky altimeter) but the flying's always fun, and any crazy excuse to do it...

I did twice as good as last year, got six of the buggers. But they're smaller.

Naturally I forgot the camera, but here's a picture from last year.

1) When's the season open/close for pumpkins?
2) what caliber firearm is recommended?
3) or is live capture preferred/mandatory?
4) I've seen some huge herds of these critters, near Snohomish and elsewhere. I saw a good-sized bunch of them last year right near Harvey, bobbing around in the floodwaters-- very pitiful.

Nice looking Luscombe, must be one of those rare navy trainer models. What powerplant?

Eric

zero.one.victor wrote:1) When's the season open/close for pumpkins?
2) what caliber firearm is recommended?
3) or is live capture preferred/mandatory?
4) I've seen some huge herds of these critters, near Snohomish and elsewhere. I saw a good-sized bunch of them last year right near Harvey, bobbing around in the floodwaters-- very pitiful.

Nice looking Luscombe, must be one of those rare navy trainer models. What powerplant?

Eric

1) September 29 to October 31. Hunting at night is frowned upon. No permit necessary, though usually there's a price per head.
2/3) Low caliber works best, anything big makes it too messy to drag home. I like to jump out from behind a bush and attack with a knife before they roll away. Others prefer to overrun them on horseback and use a rapier or machete. The advantage to this is that horses don't fall on their asses in the mud. Pumpkins love the mud.
4) Yeah, that was funny last year. They swim very well for being anchored.

I think somebody in Montana just had a sense of humor. Never been in the Navy, just flying clubs and private ownership. (And the Navy used all yellow, blue & yellow is army.) It's the same C-85 as new.

There's a Cessna 140 or 120 with a similar Army trainer paint job, used to be based near Sequim. Also seen mil/trainer paint schemes on Cessna 150's, Grumman Yankees, RV's, Varga Kachina's, Smith miniplane, and some others I can't quite recall now. Also on pseudo/wannabe warbirds such as Beech 18 (wannbe C-45), navion (wannabe L-17),Champ (L-15.9 ) etc.

Eric