denalipilot wrote:

Oregon180 wrote:Flew with my daughter to Columbia, CA and camped for the Labor Day weekend. Had a great time!

Looks like a great time. I took my 3-1/2 year old daughter flying yesterday as well, for 0.7 hours in the local area. Looking forward to some more ambitious trips such as yours. Happy to report that she really enjoyed herself thorughout

We've been reading a kids' book about Charles Lindbergh, and it was surprising how much of that she has latched onto. She wanted to bring sunscreen for yesterday's flight. Several hours later I realized that at one point in the story, Charles Lindbergh has sun beating in the cockpit and starts sweating in his flight suit. She was expecting it to be the same as the book

Makes me think that "father-daughter" would be a cool theme for a fly-in. Mother-daughter too, for that matter.

The date of this post is Sept 7. Rosemary and my 36th wedding anniversary.
This post got me thinking about what a special time it is raising kids.
Your daughter will always remember these times you spent together. My oldest daughter was 8 years old, my youngest 4, we were too broke to have an airplane but on long days in the winter sat around on the living room floor banging on an old guitar making up songs and recording them on an old cassette tape deck. Almost 20 years later when she was getting married she came home and, unknown to me, dug through everything we owned until she found that old tape. At the wedding dance she had the disc jockey slip it in to the PA system and she called me out to dance to it. I just about didn't make it through. Daddy's Little Girl is the name of it and the first line is:
Daddys don't know what to say,
Do little girls grow and never get old,
Do they just go waltzin' away.

Enjoy your daughters company. You think you have all this time and then it's gone.

Wow great story dirtstrip. Gave me goosebumps actually. My daughters are almost 5 and 2. Might have to get my guitar out...

Wow, Dirtstrip. Goosebumps here too! Sounds like you're a great dad.

I had hoped to bring the whole family to McKenzie for the get-together there, but became convinced I had a mag issue and didn't go. Turned out to just be operator error coupled with uber-caution, and everything's fine with the plane. Oh well, better to err on the side of caution.

Today I took my son, who's 2 1/2, for the first time "solo" without my wife in the back with him. We both had a great time, and stopped over in nearby Powers, Oregon, where we walked down to the river and threw some rocks into the water. Great day!

Having lunch:


$100 rock toss:

Very cool rock toss photo. Missed you at McKenzie Bridge but I understand uber-caution. Maybe I can get down there for lunch sometime this Fall.

Alex

I put about six hours on the tach yesterday, and flew up to the greenville seaplane flyin up in greenville me

Got to see the new quest


Bunch of take off contests





And my favorite was the IO-390 King cub. Really lived up to its name of king. There was no time on the step, went right from plowing to take off. i wish i had a video of it. A real screamer!




And check out here for the rest
http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/ ... ?start=all

Tom

A little while ago at the flying B:



Downwind at the Flying B by alex471am, on Flickr


Approach to the Flying B by alex471am, on Flickr



The Flying B by alex471am, on Flickr


Flying B Hangar by alex471am, on Flickr

Flew to the MacLaren River for a sandwich at the lodge this afternoon. Magnificent weather after yesterday's blow. Not as colorful as our last trip, colors are gone in this part of the state, but glaciers and mountains out in full glory.
MacLaren Glacier from the strip

Susitna River near the headwaters

Mt. Deborah and Hess Mountain

Another shot of Mt. Deborah with the West Fork Glacier in teh foreground.

Had a buddy call me the other day wondering if I wanted bring some margs to Lake Powell and do some drinkin, cruizin, and skiin. I'm like ye, count me in .

So I mixed up some margs, got the rest of my stuff together for the morning flight to Page.

It rained quite a bit the day and night before which made for some pretty rare photos over Monument Valley on the way down with the monuments poking up through the fog.





Flight back yesterday evening was great coming up Powell and the San Juan arm, getting into Durango after dark with a pretty full moon.

Cruizin and skiin was good to
Gary

The Trifecta: Leadville with Bushwagon Bill for breakfast, in his Businessliner--I mean Skywagon; then Antique Field for lunch, and Parkland for chili and brownies in the cubscout 'cub. Lynn and Mike attended all three, too. Perfect flying weather, tons of cool aeroplanes everywhere we went. Pix to follow if I can figger out how--Bill jump in.

Thanks. cubscout

Like Cubscout said, we pulled off the perfect Fall Fly-In Trifecta. I departed Meadowlake at sunrise in my skywagon to get Cubscout at Longmont, headed to Leadville for a great breakfast, headed back to Longmont to saddle up Cubscouts Super Cub, did the Antique Field Fly-in and had lunch, flew over to Parkland for the chili cookoff fly-in and ate again, headed back to Longmont to swap back out for my skywagon, flew down to Kelly Airpark to visit our friend with a Super Cub, then back to Meadowlake at 5pm. What a day of flying and eating. Was perfect out all day.

Businessliner at Longmont

Cubscout at the helm of my Businessliner

Burn area West of Boulder

Moon over the changing aspens

Mike and Lynn in their Skywagon over Southpark

Lynn landing at Antique Field Fly-In

Staggerwing at Antique Field

Tiger Moth at Antique Field

Homebuilt at Antique Field

Skywagon at Antique Field

Indian at Antique Field Fly-In

BSA at Antique Fly-In

Indian at Antique Field

Ford Pickup at Antique Fly-In

No pics from Parkland Chili Cookoff, my camera battery went south. The antelope chili was awesome though.

Damnit, missed a good day of flying due to work. Looks like fun BW, I need to get to Antique sometime soon.

Bill
Ya keep up that kinda flyin/eatin you're gonna have to go to the 520 jugs on that new engine.

What do they have for eatin at Leadville. I don't remember anything at the airport. Am I missin somethin or do the let ya take a car into town?

These last couple weeks have been the best of the summer. Awesome wx.

Thanks
Gary

Gary, Leadville held their annual pankcake breakfast fly-in, but we did go there last weekend and took the loaner Jeep to the Golden Burro for an awesome breakfast. Yes, mountain flying has been at its best lately, going to get even better heading into Oct.

A dry lake bed by the Great Salt Lake, on the way to Wendover this weekend. Smooth as glass, with just a little give when walked on, like it was carpeted.


This morning: no crane work that I knew of, so I thought I'd check out the fall colors at Copper Basin, about 100 miles away across the desert. The excuse, to go play on a weekday, was that I also have a wind turbine tower crane job upcoming in the Antelope area nearby, and I wanted to eyeball it to see what progress they were making. Right at the very point where the cell phone coverage will drop, I get a call for crane work back in Pocatello! So garbled I ignored it and continued on up and over the pass down into the basin. Feeling guilty, but not too much.

The highest airstrip in Idaho, that I can think of anyway, 7820' Copper Basin, surrounded by even higher peaks, dead calm air.


Coming out of the Basin into the Big Lost River Valley, I landed a few times on the west side of the valley at 8600' or so, this was an effort to see if I could get cell phone reception from nearby Mackay to see about the crane job I had missed, so far, while screwing off. The view across the valley to the Lemhi Mts, including Idaho's highest Mt. Borah (13K and some change) wasn't bad either.



Home by 11:30, I finally got back to my crane customer, and darn if I did NOT miss the job, they want me tomorrow AM, good thing I didn't turn around! I explained my tardiness in getting back to him as due to "working in an area out of cell coverage", not exactly a lie.

Four of us from Arizona flew our polished Cessnas to the 120/140 convention at Spearfish South Dakota, good times.


Rawlings Wyoming

Dale

Lizard wrote:Four of us from Arizona flew our polished Cessnas to the 120/140 convention at Spearfish South Dakota, good times.


Rawlings Wyoming

Dale

Has anyone in your group accidentally climbed into the wrong bird? Anyone actually fly off?

I was in Rawlins one week ago chasing prarie goats. We went to the airport one morning just to see what was there but all was quiet other than the windsock. The whole time we were there the wind was blowing in excess of 15 knots and sometimes up to 40. Antelope everywhere

Took a flight from Whiteman (WHP) down to Long beach to fly with a friend who just got some 31" bushwheels on his Maule. It was a great flight at 1500-1700 msl to duck under the LAX class C space. over Burbank, around Downtown along the LA river, (solid pavement ) to Long beach. Somehow My wife who had the camera forgot to snap a photo of the plane, ooops. It was a fun flight and here are a couple photos from along the way.

Along I-5 past Burbank Airport



Past Dodger stadium


And east of Downtown


Long beach shoreline park



The Queen Mary and the Old home of the Spruce Goose

Took a run up to ccurries Tues Evening. Groundspeed was 70 mph going and 150 coming home. Not much wind on ground though.
Beautiful sunset with a thunderhead moving by.

Looks like serious business.

Saskatchewan River.

Some nice photos being posted in this thread.

I didn't really get any good ones but had a great time today.

Popped up to Chehalis then hit several strips with Kelly.

Started off with Decker, it's paved but only about 15 feet wide. Slopes up hill to the north. Fairly long. Fun departure downhill.

Whissler was next. Grass strip north of Chehalis. I think it's about 1500'. Best way in is to the west then depart east.

Cricket. Just inside Olympia's airspace. Long enough. Wires and trees for obsticals. Getting a bit rough in the middle. Chatted with a local for a while. He has an old Russian observation experimental project he'd like to sell.

Bear Valley. Tucked amongst trees it looks more intimidating than it really is. Can't remember the lengths of most of these strips. It's long and the trees are probably 150' apart, side to side. Owner wasn't home.

Off to Elma. Great place for practicing short field if the winds are from the west or calm. About 5mph out of the west was perfect. There's a paved strip but next to it is an 800' grass strip then
the taxi crossing followed by an additional 300' of overrun if needed. After that, it gets really rough so it's recommended to get the heck out of there or aim for the paved runway. I was pretty pleased with myself. First run I was down and stopped around 600' or so. Not too bad. We chatted with a local then had lunch at the new cafe there (more on that). Afterwards we hit the strip a couple more times. I was able to get down and stopped no more than half way and off in about the same distance. A few more runs at this one and I might try Biggles soon. Biggles is 800' period.

The Happy Landings Cafe at Elma is opened for business. $8.00 will buy you a 1/2lb burger with all the trimmings. These are not pre-frozen patties, either. Good burgers. They've only been opened a couple months so word of mouth will help keep them open.

From there we headed over to Fisher (I think), just SW of the Chehalis airport. This guy has 150 acres of farm land. He doesn't fly but like airplanes so he built a nice little strip. I'm guessing about 1700' but clear on both ends. He hosts an antique car event every year as well and has a model A himself. Chatted with him a little bit before heading off to Chehalis for fuel and home.

I'm amazed at how many strips there are in that area. We only barely touched a few. Most of the owners are quite happy to have responsible people fly in but some are not so open. Kelly is a great resource for the strips in that area, as he's been into almost all of them, and just a darned good guy to fly with.

Got back just in time to see my neighbor putting his 150 TD away for the night. He's more familiar with strips in Oregon and was glad to get some beta on the ones up north. I'll be glad to get some beta from him about the ones farther south.