skybobb wrote:

RobBurson wrote:2friends, wheels up at 11:30 Light winds, SKC, TTD, DLS for lunch, Grass Valley to check a friends 1800 acre ranch, S33[Madras] Drove to the vacation house, went for a 1 hour hike, shot up 500 or so rounds of 9mm, 22LR, 45 ACP, back to TTD at 6:30 Flight time 1.75 hr. 4 landings. Damage-none

Rob, Just curious, on the damage none? Was that to the targets you were shooting, or were you refering to the aircraft?

Bob, I was referring to the Maule. I'm not as good a shot as some but I can get the job done.

Rob

Rob, I was just trying to pull your chain a little. By the way thanks for the help the other day on the phone number. It helped a lot.. Bob

A fellow pilot friend from the Phoenix area came to Vale to visit today. So we took a little trip to look at the Owyhee area. We flew over the Owyhee Dam, and up the Lake to the Owyhee Res. State airport. Shauert. sat on the front porch of the Hilton Hotel and signed the log book. The we tookoff and flew up Leslie Gulch, over Jordan craters, We looked down into Owyhee canyon. WE landed at Mud Flat ranch as we saw two pickup trucks parked there. But I guess they we out riding and nobody was there. We flew on and landed again at the Holdout cow camp,as again we saw a pickup parked in front of the bunkhouse. But Casey had ventured out on his 4 wheeleer. so we took off again and flew back to S49 to end our flight...... Bob

Went camping by van in the Alvord Desert. It is nearly all dry. Weather was sunny, 60, and nearly windless. Made for a nice time to hike. I can hardly wait to return in my plane.
tom

Savannah-Tom wrote:Went camping by van in the Alvord Desert. It is nearly all dry. Weather was sunny, 60, and nearly windless. Made for a nice time to hike. I can hardly wait to return in my plane.
tom

Let me know when you plan to head back. I'd love to get out there again.

Craig

4/11/08 Zane and I flew from KTTD to R33 Wakond Beach. Turf. Pictures on the url.
http://www.airnav.com/airport/R33
40X2000 Still a little wet, got mud on my clean M7.

Then on to Grants Pass 3S8. I met Zanes Dad and Mom, nice folks. Checked out Zanes 170, very clean, nice plane. Even if it's not a Maule.
http://www.airnav.com/airport/3S8

Then back to Troutdale.

3.9 hours. 52 gallons 100LL. Damage none.

Will post pictures in a day or two. All in all a great day.

Cheers...Rob

(My pics... -Zane)

Checked out Mt. St. Helens this morning. Smooth and beautiful.
tom

Savannah-Tom wrote:Checked out Mt. St. Helens this morning. Smooth and beautiful.
tom

Nice, Tom.

Headed out to the Dalles today and met Rob and his friend Steve.

Troutdale had typical winds of 20 knots gusting to 25 so the gorge was a bit gusty getting started. Once around 5,500 the roughness subsided.

Got a change to see Rob's sweet ride, almost as nice as mine. But Hey, I don't own Rob's Maule.

Rob made some nice comments about the 150. "Keep it light", he reminded.
Note to self: Leave toothbrush at home.

Sorry Rob, I forgot to grab my camera to snap shots of you departing.

Rob had to get back, allowing life's chores to interfere with a good flying day. The greenbacks sucked out of his wallet from the previous days activities probably fogged his sense of reason.

Rob suggested I head off to Arlington (1S8) or Wasco State. Arlington is a 5000 foot turf strip... well mixed gravel and bunch grass. Wasco is paved but shorter. I opted to head to Arlington, about 40 miles to the east.

The runway sits at 860' or so on a plateau above the town. A quick flyover didn't reveal any gaping craters or large hoofed herbivores, so I decided to go for it

Gawd, I took up half the runway. Density altitude, that must be it.


A little turbulant with the heat and about a 7-10 knot wind from the east.

From the air


Looking West


Best backcountry plane ever (cause it's mine):


Stonehenge, because every druid needs one.

Nice pictures Tom, Zane, Craig. Craig, you missed your calling. You should have been a writer. I'm going to get my camera to see what's on it.

Rob

Great Pix Rob, Is the last one aa place you land on... Looks kind of like the one in the beginning of the movie Air America....

iceman wrote:Great Pix Rob, Is the last one aa place you land on... Looks kind of like the one in the beginning of the movie Air America....

ha, I don't have bush wheels. I wish I did sometimes. With the past decisions I have made, I am probably lucky not to have a picture like Peters. Even without a problem.

So far I have not made an off airport landing. Yes I am ashamed. I have a buddy with a cow pasture and another with a hay field I am going to do. Till then I guess it's official landing areas.

Rob

I posted about a flight I took a week ago last Sat. with a fellow pilot from the Phoenix area. Well, he posted some of his pictures here of our flight. http://hauert.net/pictures/vale/index.html Look under the pictures to read what he had to say about our flight into the Owyhee country.

The Wakonda Beach landing.

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Funny how that camera sucks so bad at shooting through the prop. I think it's the combination of the 30 fps frame rate and the normal stroboscopic effects. I'd hoped for better. Oh well, it looks like some weird window blinds.

1SeventyZ wrote:Funny how that camera sucks so bad at shooting through the prop. I think it's the combination of the 30 fps frame rate and the normal stroboscopic effects. I'd hoped for better. Oh well, it looks like some weird window blinds.

Better than I shot...

Who was holding the camera? They seemed a little nervous about the touchdown, hiding behind the instrument panel like that

once&futr_alaskaflyer wrote:Who was holding the camera? They seemed a little nervous about the touchdown, hiding behind the instrument panel like that

You know those little 8.50s don't suck the bumps up all that good and there were some bumps there. Then again Zane may have been looking to kiss his you know what good bye.

But I'm still here typing so it must a been an ok landing.

Hey Zane the wife wanted me to ask you who's the artist and song title that you used on RobBurson video you shot?

Thankyou Wayne

once&futr_alaskaflyer wrote:Who was holding the camera? They seemed a little nervous about the touchdown, hiding behind the instrument panel like that

Ha! When I was splicing those 3 clips together I wondered if someone would say something. There was a brief period of about 3 seconds where we floated after Rob rolled out, and I momentarily forgot about the camera in lieu of watching the low-strung orange viz balls at the end of the strip, wonder how good those brakes worked on wet grass . He made a really nice landing though, very smooth as you can see.

Wayne- It's "Dear Old Greenland" by Andrew Bird

Took my third flight today since repairs were completed. Flew from Brown field at the border to three airports and down the VFR corridor over san diego bay. Sorry I didn't take the camera guys, next time....... All seems to be fine.