No pictures for this one but flew over to Springs East to work on some short field dirt strip landings. Came back to Meadowlake and chatted with "Centennial" from this site a bit. Just keeping my daily flying streak from 24 Dec going. Gotta love CO weather.

It don't get get any better than it has been lately. I just need more money for gas.

Gary

shortfielder wrote:It don't get get any better than it has been lately. I just need more money for gas.

Gary

No joke there!!! It has been great weather lately, surprisingly.

Just keeping the 24 Dec streak alive!


Night flight in the pattern

That's crazy Bill!!! Just goes to show we get some pretty good weather here in Colorado!!!

Flew the pacer from Scappoose over to Woodland and got worked over pretty good by the crosswind. Good practice though. Played around there for about an hour doing wheelies, then had enough of the bumps and headed home. Ready for the east wind to stop though, the Lewis River was acting like big funnel dumping the wind right onto the airstrip

Matt

Flew to Newton Kansas today to deliver a Citabria from Sidney to a buyer. Did the round trip in seven hours, six flying hours.

Hi there what did the 7 gcbc sell for ????

Hit Bijou Bottom Fly-In today. Still quite a bit of snow on the grass strip. At lease my tires are clean now.

I drove to 00V and watched planes fly while my daughter napped in the back seat!

Around the neighborhood to warm the oil so I could change it. Wind was pretty much right down the runway. 27G33kts I had ground speed at touch down of 20 kts 100' to stop. I had 1 take off roll of maybe 50' and I had 40 gallons of gas and 60 pounds of junk in the trunk.

RobBurson wrote:Around the neighborhood to warm the oil so I could change it. Wind was pretty much right down the runway. 27G33kts I had ground speed at touch down of 20 kts 100' to stop. I had 1 take off roll of maybe 50' and I had 40 gallons of gas and 60 pounds of junk in the trunk.

I don't think I'd care to even taxi in crosswinds of 27G33.......

hotrod150 wrote:

RobBurson wrote:Around the neighborhood to warm the oil so I could change it. Wind was pretty much right down the runway. 27G33kts I had ground speed at touch down of 20 kts 100' to stop. I had 1 take off roll of maybe 50' and I had 40 gallons of gas and 60 pounds of junk in the trunk.

I don't think I'd care to even taxi in crosswinds of 27G33.......

Yep, hotrod I know what you mean. I am waring out my breaks, but there cheap. The wide gear really helps. I only have to taxi 150 yards each way with the 90* XWind then it is directly behind or right into it.

It is so cool to count one one thousand two one thousand and your off.

RobBurson wrote:

hotrod150 wrote:

RobBurson wrote:Around the neighborhood to warm the oil so I could change it. Wind was pretty much right down the runway. 27G33kts I had ground speed at touch down of 20 kts 100' to stop. I had 1 take off roll of maybe 50' and I had 40 gallons of gas and 60 pounds of junk in the trunk.

I don't think I'd care to even taxi in crosswinds of 27G33.......

Yep, hotrod I know what you mean. I am waring out my breaks, but there cheap. The wide gear really helps. I only have to taxi 150 yards each way with the 90* XWind then it is directly behind or right into it.

It is so cool to count one one thousand two one thousand and your off.

Rob.... I really need to give you a ride in the "beast". That one thousand one, one thousand two, thing is an every takeoff thing for the 801. The big problem is I won't take the plane out of the hangar any more with winds that strong and me not sitting it while it rolls out. I almost lost it a few years back.

Seeing daylight under one of the main gear tires while I was pulling it out using the tow bar scared the shit out of me and diving for the strut on that side to add my weight was a 10 on any olympic score card.

I am pretty prejudice of fat people but I was never so happy to see a tub-a-lard ramp rat come around the corner of the row of Tee hangars while I was screaming that morning for help.

Ben.

Took advantage of the -05°F temp on Thursday morning to make a flight around the area. Unfortunately, the preheat took longer than the flight. Looking forward to next week.

On Saturday Bumper and I launched our Huskies and first headed a few miles east of Minden to do some touch and go's on a dirt strip off of Sunrise Pass Road. From there we headed south for a few photos and then landed at Alpine County, which was snow-free. A northbound flight took us along Foothill Road past Genoa and then back to a nice landing on Runway 12. Had to wait until 2:30 pm for the fog to clear off. Sure was nice to fly after losing a week or so with the annual inspection (note: shiny tires!).

It was -2 in eastern Ohio this morning, but we managed to round up 5 hardy souls and did some ski flying. My cub scoops air in the door-window, and I still had a blast. Photos and videos may follow when we get them exchanged.

Flew up to visit my friend that owns a Super Cub. Jumped in the back seat and flew over to Bijou Bottom to introduce him and get him permission to use the private strip. Was a beautiful Colorado day of flying.

9th straight day of 300ft ceilings and 1 mile of vis here in the East Bay area. This is the longest I can remember without seeing the sun around here.

I "had" to fly out of the mountains, across the desert, back into the mountains, to look at an upcoming crane job setting a wind turbine tower. About 70 miles each way. That was the excuse anyway! There was a cloud deck over the desert, going I flew under it at about 500 agl, being out of the INEL (nuke research site) airspace restrictions, coming back 8500 VFR on top. Glass air the whole way.
First shot shows how I'm only plowing half the length of my 400' runway, 200' is plenty when it's this cold (density altitude improvement), but going wider in case I get out of wack on landing as braking is pretty much nonexistant with the smooth tread Airstreaks. Note the single center track from the tailwheel touching down first.

This is the Big Southern Butte sticking out of the fog deck, and the Lost River Range in the background about 50 miles away

Almost home, this is the mt. range showed in my avatar, the Pornuef Range,a great soaring site.