Left Carlsbad, flew "the pass"
Pit stop

Little soft

Stopped at Donna Anna for fuel, deming, and lordsburg for the night.


Following the Nesins on there trip, recreating the flight of passage

http://www.supercub.org/cms/

Up!

Need to find out how high a 50 hp J-4 will fly before setting off for Lompoc in a few weeks. Got her up to 5,900 before the light ran out. Started at 4,000). Was also chasing a J-2 around the patch.







And yesterday, the J-2 and the J-4 did some good in the evening light.

Mile Hi yesterday

saw you did that one on facebook mate, bloody good show! its one I'm keen to get over there and go into!

Tom wrote:Left Carlsbad, flew "the pass"


Following the Nesins on there trip, recreating the flight of passage

http://www.supercub.org/cms/

Great book, neat idea, have a great time!

After all the epic scenes of real mountains and fabulous back country LZs, I hesitate to post any of my flying in the bucolic hinterland of northern Virginia. The afternoon thunderstorms held off on Sunday, so I too a quick spin over the Blue Ridge Parkway section of the Appalachian Mountains. These shots aren't of epic terrain or big, joyous gathers, but they did constitute my fix for a Sunday afternoon.

This is the Shenandoah River near Luray, VA


Another shot of the Shenandoah seen over the ridgeline


Here is a better view of what we call "mountains" out east


Someone built a home on the ridgeline in hopes of getting the view we have each time we fly:


And here's home base - I like chasing my shadow at the end of the day

My dog flies with me pretty often, but she is more interested in the shade under the wing than the flight itself...

highroad wrote:Wow, cool shot.......!! Literally. Good on you guys turning an ice run into an adventure.

Is "inner lake George" the lower or upper lake?

It's the upper lake, highroad

That last picture is great, Flyhound!

Flyhound wrote:After all the epic scenes of real mountains and fabulous back country LZs, I hesitate to post any of my flying in the bucolic hinterland of northern Virginia. The afternoon thunderstorms held off on Sunday, so I too a quick spin over the Blue Ridge Parkway section of the Appalachian Mountains. These shots aren't of epic terrain or big, joyous gathers, but they did constitute my fix for a Sunday afternoon.

Flyhound,

The west (and the Idaho backcountry) are damned amazing and beautiful. It's something everyone should experience.

I will say, however, I have a whole new appreciation for our low DA and that air so thick you can see your prop slice thru it!

Took a mate up after work this arvo........i think he channeled the flying suite a bit to much!

Lakeshore of Lake Michigan

Browns Canyon


Hecla


O haver lake and Marshall pass


Saguache (about as backcountry as it gets in the 150 at >10k DA)

Flew to Half Moon Bay for lunch! Had a little help hauling the family! Thanks Justin!

You finally got to fly the cess - mooney! Nice!

Lakes patrol

muscle car weekend at the track

home again

Working at the local FBO this summer as a lineboy, after work today I gave the ride a wash
Then went to dry it off

piperpainter wrote:Flew to Half Moon Bay for lunch! Had a little help hauling the family! Thanks Justin!

Used to be one of my favorite weekend lunch destinations when I was based out of Palo Alto. Loved Half Moon Bay!

Flew up to LaCrete to visit the inlaws and go to a cousins wedding. On the way home today, we had some fun air amd clouds to deal with. Tried climbing above them but at 8500 I quit trying, as theu were a lot higher yet. Dropped back down to 5500 and skirted under them.


The plane had some good company to park with at the airport. A couple nice King Air 200s.

David

Around and about the Montana/Idaho border.

I pushed SAVE on my mental GPS for this site, I always transit this area low down, and never noticed this area before. The pic was taken from 11+K, to put things in perspective, the saying "if it looks smooth it may be", comes to mind, no time for a looksee that day but another time I'll check it out up close and personal.


The old airstrip at West Yellowstone, obviously this area is totally unsuited for landing a modern airplane, of any type, though apparently safe enough for ATV's, dirt bikes, snow machines, and any other wheeled conveyance. At least this is what I have been told Who'd want to land here anyway, so close to town, on dirt, when you can land miles away on pavement? Don't get me started.....


On a hillside about 6500', the wildflowers are still out.