so I instead headed east into the foothills as Scott did, only much later this afternoon right before dark.I didn't have a particular mission in mind, just kept it low over the farms and ranches for a while, and ended up at Emmett's home drome (KJAQ) to tank up on the 4.99 100 LL the AWOS was advertising. After playing around in the creek hollows a while longer, I headed over to Rancho Murieta to turn a few circuits. That place is filthy with deer right now, jumped 3 across the runway and another pair of does were thinking about bolting across as I took off, and decided that there are many other places to play at last light that would involve splattering a stupid deer.
Loitered around practicing slow flight and power off stalls until it was "legal dark" time, for some night circuits at Mather. The left runway there is so long, that it would be next to impossible to lose an engine and not make it back on the runway, either straight ahead or turning around. It's a great choice for night flying chickens like myself to keep current. Ran 7 or 8 circuits in the dark and headed home.
Rob, that prop is a game changer......I didn't get off any quicker from Delta International than that in the 180 this summer. It was a little warmer and the grass was longer then than it looks in the pictures, but still - That's quite impressive coming out of an O-300 to clear the trees by that much at the end. Looks like you guys did some good work on the willows on the west side of the strip too. Maybe next time I won't go sticking my wingtip in them.
Flynengr
