Hey Rob, hope you dont mind if I do this as well, but I like your idea. I'll be flying a 150 from Victoria BC to Grande prairie tomorrow. Route will be Victoria, chilliwack, 108 mile, Prince George, tumbler ridge, then local near Grande Prairie. I've got my SPOT tracking, so feel free to watch, and if you wanna come fly with us for a bit feel free!
David

SPOT sez you're sleeping in. Little skuddy until you get past Abbotsford following the river, but should be ok after that. Weather is on an improving trend. Hope your heater works.

We are waiting in Victoria for a bit until the weather clears a bit. Had to fly a few circuits to dry the plane out a bit. Hope to leave in an HR or so.

Down for the night at 100 milehouse.
David

Now the only thing that's missing are the photos!!!

Down for the night at 100 milehouse.

Ummm, not unless you found no room at the inn (108 mile) and doubled back to 100 mile without turning your SPOT back on.

Were you bucking a headwind all the way up?

A1Skinner wrote:Hey Rob, hope you dont mind if I do this as well, but I like your idea. I'll be flying a 150 from Victoria BC to Grande prairie tomorrow. Route will be Victoria, chilliwack, 108 mile, Prince George, tumbler ridge, then local near Grande Prairie. I've got my SPOT tracking, so feel free to watch, and if you wanna come fly with us for a bit feel free!
David

Hey David: Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery...
Looks like a good trip so far. I'll bet you get some good wx this coming week. It is suppose to be great.

Cheers...Rob

Karmutzen wrote:

Down for the night at 100 milehouse.

Ummm, not unless you found no room at the inn (108 mile) and doubled back to 100 mile without turning your SPOT back on.

Were you bucking a headwind all the way up?

That's what we did. We were bucking about a 10kn headwind. Not to bad. Would've liked to be up a little longer but oh well.
Here's a couple pics.


Some tall waterfalls near hope


And heading out of Victoria



Will finish the rest of the flight tomorrow, leaving at 6am.
David

Very cool, fun photos, thanks for including us.

Well we left the hotel nice and early this morning, checked the plane over real good, and found that about 8 gallons of fuel had evaporated out of the vent turn e over night. So I decided we would top up in Williams lake, and we got in the plane. Hit the starter, nothing. Hmmm. Melissa, the other pilot I was with was going to learn how prop starting works. So I get out and start swinging. Swing it through a few times before making sire she had the mags on, nope. Awesome. So, start swinging again, qqith the mags now on, but couldn't even get so much as a sputter out of the old 150. But as luck would have it, I noticed a car with a battery charger hooked up to it down I'm front of the flying club. Pushed down and hooked up for 5 minutes and she fired just dandy after that. The runway at 100 mile house isnt really short, but a heavily loaded 150 with no working flaps used up a fair bit of it. So on to Williams lake for fuel. What a beautiful airport they have there.

After Williams lake we continued north up to Prince George. I was quite surprised at how big the airport there is. 11000 foot runway is an awful lot for a Cessna 150. A lot of planes landed and took after during our 15 minute stop there, bit the coolest was this Puralator corsair(or that's what I think it is)

After Prince I had planned on going north almost as far as Tumbler Ridge and then east through the Monkman pass. I was however pleasantly surprised when we got up to 9500 feet that we would be able to turn east much sooner. We also had a great tail wind that had our GS showing 105KNs. Not bad for a 150. Over the mountains was very pretty.



This ridge had me wishing I had my citabria with skis, would be awesome to land on.


All in all it was a great flight. Learned a couple things, taught a few things. And I'd have to say, if you have the chance to fly the Fraser river valley you should. It is truly beautiful. Highly recommended.
Home now.
Thanks for watching.
David

P.S. Troy, I wish I could write like you. It has never been a strong suit of mine. Reading along in your TR is riveting and keeps me waiting for the next chapter. So thank you for sharing with us.

A1,

Thanks for sharing your photos. I always enjoy seeing the Canadian Rockies! Looks like you are enjoying a fun trip.

Blackrock

A1Skinner...you write just fine. And thanks for taking the time to share the trip with us.

Nice pics. I followed part your route just west of the canyon to Cache Creek today, and thought about you earning your mountain flying badge in a 150. Pretty good for a stubble jumper. Some of the snowcaps looked inviting for a ski run, but not for me. Saw some tracks, probably goat, but didn't see any actual animals. Did you figure out the starting problem? I think in the US handswinging a prop needs a CFI logbook endorsement.

Sorry for the late reply karmutzen. No we didnt figure out the starting problem. Never had any issues the rest of the trip, or any time the plane has flown since its been home. Must of been its time of the month. Mechanic fixed the flaps. There was some bad wires in the wing root. The salt water on the island was not nice to the little plane.
David