58Skylane wrote:Ah man!! Awesome pics guys! Looked like a beautiful day for flying. You Colorado and Neb. fliers know how to have some fun!

Don't forget about the new 170 in our group from Wyoming. Welcome Stacey and Rob.

Cubscout's computer is on the fritz so I'm taking the liberty to post this cool picture of him departing Neilsen Strip in Colorado on Friday.

bushwagon wrote:

58Skylane wrote:Ah man!! Awesome pics guys! Looked like a beautiful day for flying. You Colorado and Neb. fliers know how to have some fun!

Don't forget about the new 170 in our group from Wyoming. Welcome Stacey and Rob.

My bad Yep, welcome to BCP.org Stacey and Rob!! Your going to have some fun people to fly with!!

Haha nice!! Glad you guys are out there having fun and posting the goods.

Needed to fly to Madras Oregon to get oil and filters for the Maule. I also needed to check my vacation home. All was good. Pictures with iPhone.
Sunny when I left Troutdale. The clouds were piled up on the Cascades so I decided to go VFR on top. I figured I could shoot an approach into Madras they had 3800 BKN, that is easy.



I'm at 8000 MSL here

Headed home

Clouds left

Colors





My home

Back at Troutdale to change oil so I can go again tomorrow

Flew up to Front Range, CO (KFTG) to pick up my friend Clint. Let him fly the Skywagon up to Scottsbluff, NE where he keeps his J-3 Cub. We took his cub up and spent about an hour flying in and out of the bluffs then traded some touch and goes. Was pretty cool to get to do some take off and landings in a original J-3 after flying the Clipped Wing J-3 for some time. Boy that extra 40" per wing sure makes a big difference in lift. I had a blast.



Clint on short final to Scottsbluff

Did a little pheasant hunting today with a good friend, one awesome brittney spaniel, and one very flatulent golden lab in the "super maule" today. Saw a lot of elk on the west side of Coeur D'Alene Lake in North Idaho too (priceless). Who needs an airport?

James






http://vimeo.com/16406792

Very cool James and Bushwagon

Awesome pics!

Thursday night I flew by my self for the first time in the 170 to go do some pattern work. I had a lot of fun shooting eight takeoffs and landings out at Pine Bluffs using different flap settings and techniques to see what works best. I also ran into another 170 owner out there who has a 48' ragwing. After a conversation with the fellow 170 owner and topping the tanks off it was about 30 minutes past sunset. I flew the 35 miles back to Cheyenne in exceptionally smooth air and made my first night landing in a long time.

The 48' 170 just under the tail


Longs Peak waaaay off on the horizon


Looking a little high in this picture but I still made the first taxiway


I also went on another nice flight today with my wife, we flew North from Cheyenne and made a landing at Wheatland, Camp Guernsey, had to abort a landing at a grass strip in Glendo due to a bad cross wind, then topped off in Pine Bluffs and flew back to Cheyenne again.

Cliffs south of Wheatland


"The Castle" at Guernsey State Park


Guernesy Reservoir


I saw this river canyon along the way and couldn't resist


Glendo Reservoir

Nice pics.
And yes, there are cosswinds you don't want to tackle in that thing. When I had it it had crosswind gear. An invention of dubious merit, but you could land in an awful croswind once you got used to it.

Good snow tour around tahoe this am.

A little mud bogging today....High pressure moving in for the next few days. Going to be real good flying weather and things will dry out if anyone is heading to the sierra's.

Found a new one today...and some more mud bogging

I couldn't have AKtahoe have all the fun. Went out today and tried different video angles. Not really impressed, but had a fun little local flight.

mountainmatt wrote:I couldn't have AKtahoe have all the fun. Went out today and tried different video angles. Not really impressed, but had a fun little local flight.

You know what's sad, I recognize where you are in that photo... I didn't fly or go to the hangar today, needed to help the wife out at home, but I'll be working on mine tomorrow...I'm getting anxious to throw some fabric on that wing!

We ended up having an impromtu fly-in at Bijou Bottom this morning. Had 6 planes fly in and another 2 based there. A guy named "Moose" brought his open cockpit ultra-light there. The guy was bundled up head to toe. Had to be since it was below freezing. Anyhow doughnuts, hot coffee, and some hangar flying had by all. Life is good!

bushwagon wrote:We ended up having an impromtu fly-in at Bijou Bottom this morning. Had 6 planes fly in and another 2 based there. A guy named "Moose" brought his open cockpit ultra-light there. The guy was bundled up head to toe. Had to be since it was below freezing. Anyhow doughnuts, hot coffee, and some hangar flying had by all. Life is good!

Awesome! Trey and Ed (Champ) stopped in the hangar after the fly in to rub it in!

Nice pic Bill. Moose showed up, that guy is great (I've planned to fly with him about a dozen times now, never works out).