CamTom12 wrote:Finished my C-12 qualification today!

Heading to the FSDO next week to update my civilian ticket. It'll add Commercial AMEL and Instrument Airplane!

Also emailed a guy about adding an ASEL to the rating. I don't think it'll take but a flight or two and then my first civilian checkride.

Congratulations Cam. I wonder often how it's going for you. I'm certainly jealous.

Brett

Thanks guys!

I ended up emailing two places in the area down here about the SEL stuff and got really quick responses back. Hopefully I'll get that lined up soon!

Got my instrument at enterprise. Worked out well. Seemed like ok folks and the planes were tired but acceptable. My skywagon intimidated the instructor a little, but what he didn't know was that it scared me too.

Brett

Local flight with my kids this morning. Snow squalls to the west and clear skies to the east.

Flew into a friends pasture this afternoon just to shoot the breeze. Nice warm weather what a great day to fly!

He chopped his Jeep n dropped an Isuzu in it, one badass huntin rig

Not so warm here as Texas today...

Skalywag wrote:Valentines day Massacre at Abilene, well almost
I passed my commercial checkride woohoo!!!!!!

Flew the 182RG in the back to prove I can flip the gear lever n whatnot, but did the maneuvers in the Skalywagon

Brought along my trusty mascot for good luck!

(edited: someone thought I failed the way I wrote that the first time)

Congrats. When do you start flying ag?

Hey Tom, thanks man. I'm headed down to get started tomorrow, otherwise I'd be up there hangin out with y'all, bummed I couldn't make it to the Steve's workshop!!!

Today I flew to town, picked up my daughter and took her out for lunch

I'd love to be camped out on Ninety Mile Beach right about now.
Nice Pics!
Just a tad bit cooler here.
Trying out a new camera mount / angle.

Good stuff Jamie! Way to go Dad!

Mississippi River Recon:
River Recon with a short wing yesterday - this bar is every bit as good as Edwards AFB







http://www.backcountrypilot.org/me/my-photos/1929-pokette/photo?albumid=1360&photoid=22020

I uploaded the pictures to the gallery, and I can't figure out how to get them here?? Help!

Video from last week:

S-12Flyer wrote:I'd love to be camped out on Ninety Mile Beach right about now.
Nice Pics!
Just a tad bit cooler here.
Trying out a new camera mount / angle.

Nice. So westwater has a strip hey? Is it private? I did a river trip through there a few years ago.
How feasible would it be to land at Mack and ride my bike to the Fruita trails near Loma? Is it close enough? Could I camp at the airport?
Just making plans for the summer already

As usual the pictures, video's, and story's are awesome!

I love that you took your furry friend on your check-ride.

Rezrider wrote:

S-12Flyer wrote:I'd love to be camped out on Ninety Mile Beach right about now.
Nice Pics!
Just a tad bit cooler here.
Trying out a new camera mount / angle.

Nice. So westwater has a strip hey? Is it private? I did a river trip through there a few years ago.
How feasible would it be to land at Mack and ride my bike to the Fruita trails near Loma? Is it close enough? Could I camp at the airport?
Just making plans for the summer already

Yes the strip is private but the owner is easy to talk to and let's most people land there.
It's an east 3 mile ride from Mack to the trails in the Loma area. 10 puts you in Rabbit Valley.
You can access a ton of World Class mtnbike trails near Mack. I can point you to some primo single track that is not published.
You can borrow the airport "limo" and hit the trails in Junction too. Really worth the short drive.
There is great camping at Mack and plenty of locals to show you around.
Give Ladd a call to work out camping and hanger details.
The Caveman fly-in is tentatively scheduled for 16,17,18 May. Definitely would be a good trip to combine it with your trip.

Took some pics today of the Garrison Bay, Ducks Unlimited fishing contest. 17 gusting 22 and 12F out. Another perfect day in paradise.

Cool pics, BRD!


I had a 6.7 day out night return to complete all my ASEL add-on requirements last night!

Tomorrow I'll take another dual flight to run through the maneuvers a few more times and then line up the checkride before the end of the week when I lose access to this plane.

Just checking out some of the many canyons SW of Mack.

Nice video S-12!

In a few of the shots your airspeed was jumping around a little. Was it bumpy out?

Looks like the grass at Mack Mesa is usable. Nice