400 pages of Where Did You Fly Today. Going strong!!

Flew down to the beach after work to catch up with the family this weekend!

Great fly in camping weekend at 0NY0 meeting Pete Burns and the rest of the locals. What an amazing place to live and fly in the Adirondacks. Air to Air pictures to come.

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Wow, you guys are saving me a lot of avgas. Thanks for the great pics. I'm living vicariously through all of you!

Foew my brother in laws wing up to Margaret Lake. Its a 1700' strip at 2800' elevation with tall grass. He wasn't sure how his 172 would handle it. Handled it great and he did a great job of popping off and staying in low ground effect to build up speed. Hes low time and this was his first real back country type strip. Kinda nice to throttle the ol 206 back and relax at 172 speeds... fun sunday evening flight.

A1Skinner wrote:.... he did a great job of popping off and staying in low ground effect to build up speed.....

Cue contact.

Low ground effect is available to all at no charge.

Back to BRD for the season. Colors were almost iridescent this year.

Great photos! Beautiful plane as well : )

First flight for fun in my new -12 on my lunch break today. Got stall speeds figured at all flap settings up to 45 degrees bank. 2 touch and goes. Wonderful!

Great photos BRD, I always look forward to your post’s with pictures, thank you!

Isn’t it a bit early to be done for the season? Seems like at least 2 or 3 weeks left. That being said, by the looks of the colors its getting close to being over. Stunning colors!

Kurt

Not too early Kurt, with highs in the 40's and below freezing at night just around the corner, it's time.



The last bumble bees working.






Time to go back to a dry hangar and put the winter shoes on:

The Bay Area had been engulfed with smoke from the California fires for 30 days. The air quality was so bad it affected a lot of people, including myself. Then on the 31st day we woke up to blue skies.

The plane needed to be exercised and I was definitely suffering from cabin fever so I headed to the airport. It was a perfect day to do some 'social distancing' while exercising the plane.

I took a short flight over to Byron (C83) to get fueled and turned the camera on when I departed C83. The flight path took me South of Mt. Diablo, over the Blackhawk area and a few other landmarks, across the Sacramento River and over the remnants of the US Navy mothball fleet.

Enjoy the short flight around the East Bay.

Trigger Gap, Arkansas




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Over this hydroelectric dam I got a tour of the other day.

Built in 1927....., and in continuous use, upgraded as the decades flew by. 3 turbines, 7 MW each, with the instrumentation being a mix of brass steam gauges (6" dia.) and modern digital stuff. I also am a hydroelectric engineer, but mine only puts out .9 KW for 9 months of the year, but at 24/7 that adds up and being grid tied it is saved as KW credits on my utility statement (it's a statement, not a bill, I never own them anything other then 5 bucks a month connection fee). I told the tour giver (somewhat on the sly, not a formal tour, I was just at the right place at the right time), the head Sparky at the site, I'd get him a picture. This makes the third big hydro plant I have finagled a tour of, the operators are always surprised that anyone cares enough, they are unsung hero's in my book, keeping our lights on with nothing but water and gravity

Slippery Wing wrote:Trigger Gap, Arkansas




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I was just there a couple of weeks ago. It’s a visually tricky approach, with basically no horizontal surfaces anywhere. If I hadn’t had Steve Johnson with me, I might’ve skipped it.


Gorgeous place.

Also, has a $30,000 composting toilet.

Last weekend of camping for 2020, Lake Wawwashkesh

StuBob wrote: ....Also, has a $30,000 composting toilet.

Isn't an old-fashioned privvy with a hand-dug hole under it also a "composting toilet"?

Apparently, the government entity that owns that land doesn't think so. I can't remember who it is.

Boys Skywagon camping trip to VT. Cold and wet but much fun! 2B9 Postmills VT.