Howdy All,

I just stumbled across your site, and have enjoyed reading everything. I have been flying a home-built clone of the Zenith CH701 (called a Savannah) for about a year now. I've put 135 hours on it so far and have visited over 50 airstrips. I'm always looking for new places to explore. Based in the Willamette valley at Corvallis, it's kind of a long flight to the desert, but that's where I like to fly the most. I've been to the Avord, Black Rock, and pretty much everywhere inbetween. Off airport landings are the most fun, but here in the valley, it is hard to find places that are okay to land. When I can find the owner, and talk about it first, most have been quite friendly.

tom

Tom-

I went to Oregon State, so Corvallis has a special place in my heart. Glad to have you here. I have heard about the Savannah. I think I even downloaded a model of it to fly in Flight Simulator once.

Zane

I flew the sim, too. I'm happy to report that the real thing flys much better.
tom

Savannah-Tom wrote:Howdy All,

I just stumbled across your site, and have enjoyed reading everything...Off airport landings are the most fun, but here in the valley, it is hard to find places that are okay to land. When I can find the owner, and talk about it first, most have been quite friendly.

tom

For off-airport landing sites, some land owners get around the "liability question" by noting that it's okay to land at their place, "as long as you don't have permission".
When two airplane folks met at a party, the owner of a local strip told the other pilot that, "I quess if you were to land at my strip, there wouldn't be a whole lot that I could do about it, now would there?".
Enjoy, Berk

Ahh.. Corvallis. My folks were there in grad school when I was in the 1-3 grades, back in 60-64. That town has grown. I still have work in that area at adire, lebanon, coos bay and roseburg.

I love it when it is possible to get there.

Welcome.

Dane

Wow, it sounds like us Beavers are well represented here. I did my graduate degrees in Corvallis between 1993 and 2000. We lived in Philomath...I miss the small town atmosphere!

Zim-

Sounds like were were there at the same time. I was there from '94-'98. What department were you in?

Hi Zane-

I was in Fisheries and Wildlife.

Chris