I have got to do Shelter Cove. I have been eyeing it for 2 years. I can't seem to time the fog correctly.

RB

RobBurson wrote: I can't seem to time the fog correctly.

RB

In fact, I don't think I've ever seen Shelter Cove on a sunny day. Wow! Cool little town, and the entire Lost Coast is an interesting area.

Onthegas, what does RON mean? Recon? Beagle is a cool little place, and in my backyard. Let me know the next time you come to the area.

Remain OverNight?

lowlevelops wrote:Remain OverNight?

Yup

About as far away from backcountry flying as you can get: On Saturday flew Corona to Oxnard and back, by Debonair. Flew right over LAX and saw an obscenely gigantic Airbus taking off. A friend let us try out his his airplane, since we're taking it to Oshkosh this year and I need to get a High Perf. Endorsement first. On Sunday I did another 1.5 hours with an instructor in the back, getting signed off. I swear it was 120 degrees in the cockpit, 100 on the ground at Chino.

onthegass

I was wondering who's Husky that was taxiing down the runway the other day. Now I know.
That CX 500 Turbo is one hell of a bike.......

Brian.

Took the doors off and flew low and slow, up and down the Willamette Valley today. It was great sight seeing, and there were lots of people recreating on the Willamette River.

On short final at Corvallis, a buzzard was in the way. I kept my heading steady, thinking the bird would get out of the way, but when I got close enough to count his toe nails, I decided I'd better take evasive action. No collision, but we probably only cleared each other by 10 yards. I've read where near the ground birds tend to fly up, and at several hundred feet they tend to fly down when threatened. I guess my little plane wasn't perceived as a threat, because that old buzzard just said "FU" and kept to his business. I chickened out first. That's the closest I've come to bird brains on the windscreen.

tom

I've never had a close-up with a buzzard, not the feathered kind anyway, but I have encountered quite a few bald eagles aloft. They are the lords of the sky, apparently, because they don't give way or even acknowledge anything including airplanes. Scary, cuz them suckers are big!

Eric

Yep, the eagles around here tend to have the right of way as well. At least they stay course 99% of the time.

Today I took a airline captian up and showed him how to have fun again in an a/c. Goodtimes and the weather couldn't have been better.

The wife wanted to go to Cottage Grove, Oregon 61S. Only an hour from home. Headed south in the western foothills of the Cascade mountains.

Took the bikes. Ya thats right, you can fit 2 bikes in a Maule. Stayed at a nice motel across the street. Had a real good dinner, then walked the 12 acres of gardens at the resort.

Went hot tubing and watched TV.

In the morning had breakfast and found a great bike path to ride. It is called the Row River Trail. Cottage Grove has a lot of old covered bridges.







There was the Bohemian mining festival going on in town. Carnival food, booths of crap. Good people watching. Went to old town and found a bike shop and put some different handle bars on my bike.

Landed at Hobby Field in Creswell, Oregon.

Now that I did my good husdban thing I am free to go to OSH.

Rob

Well, I logged a small milestone today with my two-year old daughter in the right seat. First time up just the two of us, without mom.

We went down and preflighted together. I had already installed a car booster in the right seat, which worked out quite well. We loaded in, and worked the controls for a while, which amounts to her yarding on the wheel, with me trying to dampen the travel around the stops, and supplying the engine noises.

Then I asked her if she wanted to fly up in the sky, and she said yes, so we fired the engine, and I swapped her kid-size ear-muffs for a pair of Lightspeed Zulus, so we could talk. She wanted my old spare sunglasses too, so she had a oversize pair of '80's Vuarnets to complete the aviator ensemble.

Then we taxied up and down the length of the runway to get comfortable, and launched after I asked her if she still wanted to go up, and she replied yes.

Well, I think the prep was probably longer than the flight. I have to admit that once we got airborne, she wasn't quite in her comfort zone, so we circled and landed right away. But for the rest of the day, she's been giving me hugs, pulling charts out of my flight bag, talking on my handheld, and responding to "Copilot". Maybe we'll get another shot at it some day soon.

-DP

Good stuff DP. I want to see a picture.

RB

Good job! Gotta get the next generation started early. I have a friend with young kids & he doesn't seem to be into taking them along flying. The older one is old enough for all-day adventures & seems interested, too bad dad's not on board with the idea.

Eric

Flew to from Chandler, AZ to Spanish Fork, UT last week. Got a flat on the way. Met my wife and her mom up there, had some great weather, and came back 2 days later. Finally finished my 250nm solo commercial XC.

RobBurson wrote:Good stuff DP. I want to see a picture.

RB

Hi Rob,

Sorry to say I did not have a camera yesterday, but here's one taken in Talkeetna Air Taxi's turbine Otter last April, returning from a ski trip on the Ruth Glacier. Cheers!

3.3 hour mountain checkout with a student. Over Lake County, CO


We seen this odd twin rotor helicopter at Leadville. A company out of Mass doing high altitude testing. Good day for it with density altitude over 12,000'

It's a Kaman. They've been around a long time, good load hauler.

gb

There's been three or four of those Kaman's wrecked around here doing load hauling and bambi-bucket fire fighting.

Brian.

denalipilot wrote:

RobBurson wrote:Good stuff DP. I want to see a picture.

RB

Hi Rob,

Sorry to say I did not have a camera yesterday, but here's one taken in Talkeetna Air Taxi's turbine Otter last April, returning from a ski trip on the Ruth Glacier. Cheers!

Good one. I love pictures of kids smiling in an airplane.

Rob

denalipilot wrote:Well, I logged a small milestone today with my two-year old daughter in the right seat. First time up just the two of us, without mom.



Well, I think the prep was probably longer than the flight. I have to admit that once we got airborne, she wasn't quite in her comfort zone, so we circled and landed right away. But for the rest of the day, she's been giving me hugs, pulling charts out of my flight bag, talking on my handheld, and responding to "Copilot". Maybe we'll get another shot at it some day soon.

-DP