Where did you fly today?
Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:03 pm
Re: Where did you fly today?
I went and picked up my new(to me) super cub
Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:34 pm
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Sidewinder wrote:Ok. You people in California are having way too much fun with all the great weather. Landing in all these cool places then prancing around in your F**king T shirts.
This worlds has some F**ked up stuff. It's fucking January not fucking July!!! The rest of us are freezing are f**king nipples off, Drowning in tourentual rains and SNOW. You f**king people are running around in shorts ,sunscreen and sunglasses. Please stop rubbing it in!!!!. I have had enough of this winter bullshit!!!!
We're the Fuckowi Flyers. Every time we fly we land, look around, and say, We're the Fuckowi!
You think you have it bad in Canada? I actually had to open my air vent at one point because it got too warm in the cockpit. I don't know how much more of this I can take!
Get your frozen ass down here and fly with us.
Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:51 pm
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We flew the whole way out and back (5 hr,) with the doors and window open. It was rough.
Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:57 pm
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Man ,I feel for you. the pain ,the pain. It's f**cking horrible. Where can I send the check!!
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Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:26 pm
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See? January is supposed to be murky, miserable and cold like today around here! 
(quick flight this morning before another snow dump this afternoon)
(quick flight this morning before another snow dump this afternoon)
Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:48 pm
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We even have some of that white stuff in S Ca, oh ya, you can still fly to it in short sleeves.
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Sun Jan 19, 2014 7:36 pm
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Well, all the above 0 weather has made the snow settle to a point where I can get the plane out and on the snow. Went for a flight, air was cool and thick, and she climbed like a homesick angel. 
David
David
Sun Jan 19, 2014 8:35 pm
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Not a long flight, but back on my strip after 10k cy of fill
tremont%20strip/5970808191900788322
Except don't need drainage this year.
Still lots of stones to rake (like Gravelly Valley), and south 1/3 dusty. Need some rain.
--Bill
tremont%20strip/5970808191900788322
Except don't need drainage this year.
Still lots of stones to rake (like Gravelly Valley), and south 1/3 dusty. Need some rain.
--Bill
Wed Jan 22, 2014 1:48 pm
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We tried to escape the cold with a trip to the Dirty Devil airstrip in southern Utah, but it was cold down there, too. Still a fun flight, though.
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Wed Jan 22, 2014 7:36 pm
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Went for a little flight today. I recently watched the Leaning webinar Mike Bush did with EAA so I tried the method he suggests for fixed pitch planes. I'm going to have to try it again to verify the results: 102mph cruise and ~10 gallons of mogas burned in 2.9 hours. I almost don't believe it myself.
Had to deal with a little weather on the way home.
Had to deal with a little weather on the way home.
Fri Jan 24, 2014 9:47 am
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Well this was a couple days ago, ran into some other guys on here in Llano and flew around for a minute.
Fri Jan 24, 2014 12:21 pm
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Nowhere!
Fri Jan 24, 2014 12:54 pm
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My credit card flew electronically to Aircraft Spruce haha!
haha!
Sat Jan 25, 2014 3:37 pm
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Finally flew over to Paradise Flat today. Beautiful flight. I'm not a movie maker so don't be too hard on me.
Sat Jan 25, 2014 6:11 pm
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Took some overheads for the organizers of the annual ice fishing extravaganza. Instant headache when shooting out the open windows today. Something about hanging out in the breeze below zero..brrr... and then the chopper crew took their doors off and were looking way colder! Must have been dressed for it...
Sat Jan 25, 2014 11:13 pm
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svanarts wrote:Finally flew over to Paradise Flat today. Beautiful flight. I'm not a movie maker so don't be too hard on me.
Very nice !!
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Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:27 am
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I need to look that strip up....never been there. Looks like some good turkey hunting country......and a quick flight from Sacramento.
Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:57 am
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Idahomike wrote:I need to look that strip up....never been there. Looks like some good turkey hunting country......and a quick flight from Sacramento.
Technically it's on state park land, and it's X'd so I can't recommend anyone land there.
It would be a great opportunity for California to take after Idaho and have a nice fly in area where pilots could enjoy a remote area with little impact on the environment getting to and from. But I imagine a lot of city pilots would pile it up over there so...
Sun Jan 26, 2014 3:33 pm
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BRD wrote:Took some overheads for the organizers of the annual ice fishing extravaganza. Instant headache when shooting out the open windows today. Something about hanging out in the breeze below zero..brrr... and then the chopper crew took their doors off and were looking way colder! Must have been dressed for it...
So where all the people are scattered about, are those all holes drilled in the ice?
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Sun Jan 26, 2014 4:57 pm
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Yes, they drill about 12-15 thousand holes the night before within the square. (impressive operation to watch) Then when it starts in the morning, (10am-3 pm) the contestants chop out whatever ice reformed during the night in their chosen hole. (around $100K in prizes)
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