GroundLooper wrote:

58Skylane wrote:

GroundLooper wrote:Today I learned that grass is slippery when wet.

Wup, please send me a set of bushknobbies and a package of clean underwear.

Living up to your screen name??

I tried to. I think that saved my bacon. Nothing bent. No prop strike.

It's a tricky strip. Approach is about 45 degrees and I wasn't slow enough coming across the tops of the trees.

Most things are slippery when wet

Flew with Rob & StacEy to Auburn today. I think we'd have had a better time at a random grass strip with a bunch of you guys instead of the general public haha! Either way it was a great breakfast and a nice flight over. We entered as a flight....tower was surprised to see a Mooney with a (B.A) Cessna 170 w/big tires right up with me! It was good day and I landed before it got too hot!!

Took my old boss from the FD and his wife and my wife to P City for lunch. My old boss(younger than me) his wifes birthday. We all all had lunch. On the way we did a low pass on Terry, Dave, and John who were camped at Willamette International. Great weather her in NW Oregon.

Now out to rake hay.

Cheers

After diverting to two different airports (low ceilings and rain), made it to the ranch where I checked up on the Cub.

Looking good, Ernie!

hicountry wrote:After diverting to two different airports (low ceilings and rain), made it to the ranch where I checked up on the Cub.

Nice, so how's the Cub?

Tadpole wrote:

hicountry wrote:After diverting to two different airports (low ceilings and rain), made it to the ranch where I checked up on the Cub.

Nice, so how's the Cub?

It's do'in fine..anticipating a new home.

A short flight a couple valleys over to do a little aerial photography on a new structure I did the crane work on. The owner (a farmer) pulled out all the stops on his new shop: radiant gas tube heat, a Big Ass Fan (24' dia) in the ceiling, a full floor drain system, fully insulated, and best of all a 60' wide bi-fold hangar type door! No pilot or aircraft, just some big farm equipment. On the way back I visited with a crop duster friend and checked out his system using a modified school bus to load 1300 lbs of fertilizer into his hopper. Quick and easy, it is all powered off the power steering pump. The bus still drives normally. Then another ingenious local operation: a combination working farm (spuds I think) and a nine hole commercial golf course all watered by the same pivot system. You just play around or through the wheel tracks I guess. It's been there for years and seems to be a hit and something of a badge of honor to say you have played there, Idaho golfers are tough 3 new LZ's spotted and landed on the way back in the hills and I was done, before it got back up to the mid 90's.

Had a really fun trip.

First up to S26 (Sportsman Airpark in Newberg, OR) for the St. Paul Rodeo.


Yeehaw:


Then I went up Hermiston, OR to look at Maule. No go. Then off to Glacier for a visit with my family.

Avalanche Lake:


The 182 at Ferndale:


Then from Glacier to Heber City 36U for a little business and back home to Grants Pass.

Wasn't today, but on the 4th of July my wife and I flew over the Stadium of Fire celebration in Provo, Utah to watch the fireworks from the air. It was pretty cool - here are a few shots. There are a few more in my gallery:

Allen,
Those are great shots! Neat prospective from the air.

Brent

On a recent trip to Butte via Hamilton Montana, I got to hear the magic phrase: RENTAL CORVETTE. I decided to splurge and rent a car, too hot (and the thunderheads were already forming) and too many hills for the bike. Plus the cheapest motel was 100 bucks (big rodeo in town, the place was packed) but 5 miles away a nice one for 50... so screw it. No courtesy car to swipe so the helpful FBO called the onfield Hertz and I immediately stated in no uncertain terms I wanted the cheapest hunk of junk they had, only problem was they only had one left, but they'd give it to me at the 40 buck econobox rate! 5 minutes later here is what they gave me the keys to, right on the ramp. Keep in mind my usual ride is a Toyota Yaris subcompact, sure it gets mid 40's MPG and is easier to get in and out of then the 'vette, but for one day I had a ball and the hell with the mileage. This thing would accelerate so fast it'd pull your face back, and cornered with no lean, flat. I returned it the next day with no speeding, reckless driving tickets or damage to it, that's all I'm going to say. Hertz has my infrequent rental car business for life
The 1700' deep copper mine pit near downtown, while circling over it at 10:30 in the morning, I couldn't believe the smooth lift coming from it, I had to keep throttling back more and more to stay at my camera altitude. My theory is it got heated up good early as no breeze down there, "pit lift" I'm calling it, I know if I was a local I'd head over there on every climb out and save some gas. Butte is a great old town, lots of mining history and cool old houses that look like a movie set, it'd been 20 yrs since my last visit. They have a huge used book store I hit to add to my aviation library, one of a kind old ones and fairly priced.

Changed the oil in the Maule and flew to McMInnville to see Terry, Pam, Pat, Dave. Banged out a bunch of grass strips on the way home.

Ready for Madras tomorrow then surgery Tuesday.

G"Day

Good luck Rob!

Relocated the Skylane from Idaho Falls, ID to my temp job site in Oak Ridge, TN. Spent about four days dodging storms to get here but it was great to fly VFR across the country. I had great service at nearly all the FBO's. They are all hungry for the return of GA . I will only be working here in Oak Ridge till probably mid 2013 and then moving back west. This time I will be moving back to my property in the Bitterroot Valley in Montana near Stevensville/Hamilton area. Any BCP's guys in this area of east TN drop me a note or give me a hint on some good strips to explore. I am going to try and make the best of my stay here before I strap back into the Skylane and drive west. The photo below is a weather delay at Paducah, Ky (great FBO) free hot dogs, coffee and the mechanic tightened up a loose throttle cable and charged me nothing

Today.

Better late than never. Just getting around to editing a bunch of footage from the fly-in.

Finishing up some required hours for the insurance company and made a day of it. Started in Lexington NC (EXX) and went to lunch in Martinsville VA (MTV) with a stop in Mt. Airy (MWK). Was a great day...got the hours flown off and a BFR for the price of one.

Flew up to Scofield, UT this morning to try fishing in one of the streams that feeds the reservoir. A video ensued:

Down at the airstrip for a sunset flight tonight, met a traveling family with a Katmai conversion and 29" ABW's on the mains. Don't know if you folks are on here, but with that rig you'd get a warm welcome Nice meeting you all, and good travels.

-Denalipilot