Hi all, finally got the Seneca traded and the 182 comfortable.
Left Chino this evening and made it as far as Inyokern CA.
Sure do wish We would have had a little more light!!
Not the most GA friendly place! Everything locked up tight!
Found a Motel in town 30 bucks for a cab ride so waiting at the car rental place in the terminal for the rental guy to show up there is a flight at 8:15 so maybe will be able to pick up a car.
Farther noRth tomorrow.
I am going to have to get used to 115 KTS, boy is that slow??
havin fun figuring out the new bird.
Hope to over night in Elko tomorrow night
Stops at Dayton and Austin tomorrow. If anyone else
GT

Inyokern? Lone Pine is just a few miles up the road - real nice town with a courtesy car at the airport and lots of hotels and nightlife. But I guess I wouldn't fly that route VFR in the dark either.

How far north are you going? At this time of year I'd suggest a 180 degree turn and a thousand miles or so of cross-country until the OAT reaches maybe 30 degrees celcius, then land and stay there until April..

Good luck!

N131CP
Sure wish we Could have made it to lone pine, going to stop at lone pine for gas,don't think I'll
Buy any here!
Hope to see some of you along the road!
Bumper, are young minden?
Good night all
GT

According to Airnav.com
Bishop is reporting $4.41 gallon (since 11-3-10)

Lone Pine is reporting $5.00 gallon (since 10-12-10)

Yup, I'm at Minden . . . nice place to stop with the Taildragger restaurant on the field. PM me if you are stopping by.

Cheapest 100LL in the area is Yerrington (O43) at $4.00 or Silver Springs (KSPZ) at $4.04.

High all
Left inyokern this am and lost my turbo boost so stopped at Bishop and repaired, in Lovelock tonight
Maybe Austin tomorrow and then Elko tomorrow night
The 182 should be in pretty good shape by the time I get it home
Bumper will try and stop by next trip.
GT

George, when you were in Bishop, did you do the work or did someone else?? Maybe Hangar One, Rod Philbrick or the mechanic working for Sierra Life Flight?? The Thai food at the terminal restaurant is pretty good, too. Later, FF

M6RV6 wrote:Hi all, finally got the Seneca traded and the 182 comfortable.
Left Chino this evening and made it as far as Inyokern CA.
Sure do wish We would have had a little more light!!
Not the most GA friendly place! Everything locked up tight!
Found a Motel in town 30 bucks for a cab ride so waiting at the car rental place in the terminal for the rental guy to show up there is a flight at 8:15 so maybe will be able to pick up a car.
Farther noRth tomorrow.
I am going to have to get used to 115 KTS, boy is that slow??
havin fun figuring out the new bird.
Hope to over night in Elko tomorrow night
Stops at Dayton and Austin tomorrow. If anyone else
GT

What are you talking about? 115 kts sounds like a rocket ship!

FF
The airport manager said there was no mechanic on the field anymore!!??
Finally got most of the levers and knobs working right and looks like will get about 125kts in cruise.
At 8500'
Should just about remember how to fly something with out an autopilot by the time I get home??
Hoping the weather clears enough to get thru southern Idaho today or tomorrow.
GT

George,


Are you on your way back to Colville?

If so, the weather isn't cooperating is it?

I lost a close friend a few years back that bought an aircraft in Salt Lake, and crashed in Ladd Canyon in the Le Grande area trying to make it home to Spokane. He knew he wouldn't make Spokane, but had a car available in Le Grande to drive home and crashed about 15 miles short of Le Grande. It was a quad city challenger, and the morning of the accident I tried to talk him into loading it into a uhaul, but he said "we'll be alright getting to Le Grande". IMO, he was a good safe pilot, which made it hard to come to terms with. Any ways this brought back those memories.

If you want to take Horizon from Walla Walla, tri cities or some thing, I'll pick you up in Spokane and give you a ride North, just be careful out there.

Paul

XKV8R
We are taking our time, 2. Of us and 2 big dogs, stopped at Austin then Battle Mountain and we are overnight in Elko. Sorry to hear of your friend.
We have been biding our time and watching the weather, tomorrow looks promising.
Have been meeting some fine folks along the way, have missed a couple due to daylight, and delays.
Had dinner with my little neibor girl from about 20 years ago, Nice to see them again.
Birds in a Hangar and we are set for the night, Crew car from the airport.
Going to go window shopping!!
GT

Sounds like a great trip George. The best are when you don't have to be some place, at a certain time. Freedom is so sweet. That's my bucket list, to be free to do as I wish.

I was surprised to walk outside tonight and see CAVU conditions, enjoy your trip home!

Paul

Paul
Hope it lasts for awhile tomorrow
Supposed to have lots of groundhog in the morning until afternoon.
MauleWaco had a great trip down.
GT

George,

The weather has been crap here for weeks it seems.

I awoke this morning to my wife saying "you should go flying today" gotta love her!

I looked outside and its severe CAVU.

Thinking I might head up to Colville and check out your new bird. Whats your ETA?

Have a good flight,

Paul

M6RV6 wrote:
Supposed to have lots of groundhog in the morning until afternoon.

GT

Gotta love the iSpellchecker

Where in Elko does one go window shopping?!?

Paul
Sorry to have missed you, Richard there are lots of places to window shop in Elko!!!!
Made it home, didn't run into any groundhog anywhere but there sure was some ugly stuff around Boise.
Great visiting with all
GT