contactflying wrote:Good job. Canada is ahead of us in % vaccinated now. While fully vaccinated, I am in a Delta variant surge hot spot now.

Ya, in Alberta we have just opened right up.

Trying to avoid the smoke in the Frank Church Wilderness.

Great turn out at the 2nd annual Straight Tail Fly-In

Past couple of weeks was spent beach combing in Southwest Alaska. MANY years ago 31 to be exact I was a fishing guide for a fishing lodge that had a camp on the Kulukuk River. On the beach near the camp was the carcass of a Cherokee 6 (YUTE AIR circa mid eighties) that crashed in the hills nearby and was dismantled and towed by snowmobile to the beach for future removal that never happened. Anyway had my pic taken in the cockpit back in the day. My son and I flew out to that beach and took a current pic. I love that coastal area and thankful I still get to play in it regularly. Three decades ago I woulda never though one day my adult kid would fly me to that beach. Couldn’t stop smiling!

Actually yesterday. Nine flight hours Bozeman to Oshkosh. Been a while since I did one of those. Two four hour legs and one one hour.

Welcome to the humidity!

I’d post pictures, but there wasnt much to see, Celt smoke.

MTV

Morning lakes patrol to change it up!







Not really a lake...

Stopped for a stretch. Scouting around southern Yukon.

UpNorth

Conch salad for daysssss

Return to the island of the first date...

Had the extreme honor of taking this young man for a flight today. His grandpa taught me to fly, his dad and I were good friends and flew a bunch together, and now I get to pass it on to him in his grandpa's and dad's airplane. His grandpa passed away in a traffic accident a few years ago, and his dad, mom, and 2 younger sisters passed away in a tragic helicopter crash early in the year. I'm excited to get the chance to pass their love of flight on to him.

Good work David. Nice!

UpNorth

Good work David. Get him up front soon.

UpNorth wrote:

Is that one of those "Super BirdDogs" with the IO540?
Very cool looking, I'll bet it kicks ass too.

It is an experimental category L19. 185 wings with the 60 degree birddog manual flaps. Modified 180 vertical. Highly modified 172 horizontal. IO 520.

It is a bunch of fun!

UpNorth

UpNorth wrote: It is an experimental category L19. 185 wings with the 60 degree birddog manual flaps. Modified 180 vertical. Highly modified 172 horizontal. IO 520. It is a bunch of fun! UpNorth

Thanks for the info.
Sounds awesome!

Had some fun in the mountains yesterday.

Brian M wrote:Had some fun in the mountains yesterday.

Glad to see the old girl is still out there seeing the sights. I hope she’s serving you well still.

MTV

mtv wrote:
Glad to see the old girl is still out there seeing the sights. I hope she’s serving you well still.

MTV

Absolutely! I suppose I don't know much different since I haven't flown many different planes and only this one cub, but I love this plane! I plan on many, many more years of adventures in this old girl.

Been pretty smokey here at the lake recently.

With this much smoke in the sky, I'm not sure where I was, or why I was there. Somewhere between Seattle and Hillsboro, Oregon. Yuck.