Ed looks younger and younger year after year, photo after photo.

Great day to fly HC. I finished up another tailwheel student today.

Down in Az. for a few weeks. Did some local flyin yesterday. SAtopped into Gleason Flats. Thanks Lizard. Pretty cool spot on the Salt River, about 10 mi.?? up from Roosevelt Lake. Headed to Shebles tomorrow.
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Probly less than 50yds to the water.

shortfielder wrote:Down in Az. for a few weeks. Did some local flyin yesterday. SAtopped into Gleason Flats. Thanks Lizard. Pretty cool spot on the Salt River, about 10 mi.?? up from Roosevelt Lake. Headed to Shebles tomorrow.

Probly less than 50yds to the water.

'Ere ya go. Nice pic!

made a run down to Red Creek
check out the big tire shadow on the departure

Thanks
Gary

We went out from Carey, ID with the intention to find a 29 yr. old Father with his 3 yr. old Daughter in the desert. They had been lost for almost 24 hours. I was utterly amazed I saw him waiving his hat at us. I dropped down to look at 6 elk in the middle of the lavas and spotted him on a lava cone. Dumb luck, and lucky guy. I felt bad for the child.

Late Friday afternoon and I get a 5:00 AM Saturday flight to Korea dumped in my lap. It was dark, cold and raining when we arrived at the plane, but as we headed north and broke out of the clouds, the sun was just rising and the air was perfect.



The island felt cold at 60 degrees when we left this morning, but when we landed it was only 11 degrees with snow on the ground Not used to those temps!



The pictures just do not do the view justice!



Flying back over the Japanese islands a volcano was smoking. You could see right down in it as we flew over, but I couldn't get the camera out in time.



If you have to work on the weekend, this isn't too bad of a way to do it!

Looks like youre a C-130J LM?

Nah, just a pilot.

Ahh, I'm just a load.

Went up for a short flight with my sister. Mush swung by, so we ended up going down to KFLY to check out his hanger (nice pad!).







It was nice to beat the cold front and get some flying in. 4" of snow on the ground now.

i can see a pencil tip, zip tie, allan key and maybe a universal wrench hidden in that chin velcro

After a 3 month hiatus I took a friend around the pattern with my flight instructor. We didn't go anywhere but he really enjoyed it, now planning a flight to Chicago in the coming months.

Friend and I at Gill International..a beautiful evening to fly!

We had a fun day of flying. We went to Petaluma for lunch at the Two Niner Diner then flew up to Mysterious Valley making a landing at Angwin along the way. After Mysterious Valley I dropped Stacey off for her flying lesson in Davis then I went and visited c180bill at his 1000ft farm strip just a few miles away.

Mysterious Valley, this is a cool place I want to go check out again when I have more time




c180bills strip

cessnaford wrote:

We went out from Carey, ID with the intention to find a 29 yr. old Father with his 3 yr. old Daughter in the desert. They had been lost for almost 24 hours. I was utterly amazed I saw him waiving his hat at us. I dropped down to look at 6 elk in the middle of the lavas and spotted him on a lava cone. Dumb luck, and lucky guy. I felt bad for the child.

Dude,

This calls for it's own thread. Not only a good story but a shining example of the value of GA airplanes. More info please!

Craig

On Saturday I took a nice little jaunt from Henderson, NV KHND to Overton - Perkins U08. I brought my friend Jonny who isn't a pilot himself, but has a little bit of experience flying.

Leaving Henderson to the southeast over the mountains at around 7am was pretty bumpy with the 7kt headwinds mixed with the mountain thermals, though once past the mountains, the air was smooth as glass. We headed east over Boulder City KBVU and did a fly-over above the Hoover Dam. We then followed lake mead north, east, and northbound again at around 5500' to avoid the heavy tour traffic in the area.

Nearly 15 nm out from U08 I received a traffic alert and sure enough, a twin was headed in nearly the opposite direction at our altitude nearly exactly . Had I not taken action I think we would have been fine, but it would have been extremely close.

After that, it was a quick few minutes up the river north, and then descending as we headed northwest, to approach the airfield approx 2000 ft agl for a flyover, before a quick landing.

We landed without issue, set right down on the numbers, taxied back, took off again, and spent a little time flying over the town of Overton and the butte that's directly above it, before turning around, and heading back at 6500'. We requested the Class bravo transition through KLAS but they were too busy, so we flew around, and came back in to KHND from the SE over the ridge.

All in all a beautiful flight. We would have taken pictures but were enjoying the flight too much.

robw56 wrote:Ahh, I'm just a load.

We all were at some point.

Zane wrote:

robw56 wrote:Ahh, I'm just a load.

We all were at some point.

...hehe...

totoro001 wrote: We would have taken pictures but..........

........ were enjoying the flight too much.

OK, that's more important. I'll let you off the hook just this one time

That's one area I can't wait to fly one of these years.