Yesterday evening was too nice to pass up so we headed over to a buddy's place and “twisted his arm real hard” to join us for some formation at sunset.

Saddled up & ready to ride


Stearman flight of 2...taxi out & run-up


Left Echelon


Right Echelon


Sunset shot


Right Echelon...just a little sucked

Neat pictures.

Rob

Short flight over the Cascades. Troutdale to Madras, Oregon. My buddy at the FBO is going to fix the hole in the M7 and change the oil so the Maule will be ready for Oshkosh on the 27th.

Anybody else going to OSH?

Rob

Wednesday - Saturday for me

Hawkeyenfo wrote:Took one up to fly over Harrah's Rincon and got "jumped" by a red/white Super cub! Okay, more like over taken.....I had all the squirrels moving and couldn't pull away....gotta love it! If it was anyone on this site.....your SC looks great!

Lotsa fun!!!

Dang, Super Cub is one of the few planes my little spam can can outrun. As for red and white, that's like saying a white Cessna. Any other color would be the exception.

Phil

On the road White Fish, Mt. Using some of that expensive gas. Glacier NP today. Honda Golding style.

Cheers Rob

Flew to Grangeville, Idaho on Saturday. Mom turned 80 and a niece is getting married.

The flight from Santa Rosa through California was absolutely terrible. The smoke in the Central Valley was very close to IMC a lot of the time. Finally near Redding I could climb and got to 11,500. That was right on the margin of being above everything most of the time. Things really didn't clear up until Burns.

375HandhH

Went up for my standard "0.5." Did the best I could to make myself sick working on slow rolls and spins.

Bend, OR to Wakonda Beach, OR with a stop on a gravel bar at a friends along the way. Wakonda Beach to Tillamook, OR to Seaside, OR back to Bend. So much to see without even leaving the state (when the coast is clear).

Well, it wasn't today.... actually, it was July 4th. Had a neat flight from SF Bay area to Marana, near Tucson:

I-5 shouldn't look this pretty



The inmates at Cowschwitz plotting their next escape attempt


Blackbird Park near Palmdale. Complete with U2 and F-117


Lunch over the Colorado River


OMG - they're on fire here too!!


I think we're gonna like it here...

Cowschwitz!!!

Great pics, Yellowbelly.

We went to Juneau on thurs, did a little shopping and then went out halibut fighing on Fri. Had a great day, lots of Halibut but mostly chickens then went to the movies and came home Sat. morn.

Really shitty leaving Juneau, very low clouds for the first few miles and then it opened up. Flying low over the water sure makes me wish I had my floats on.

cooked up some halibut sandwiches for dinner, good eats!!

Did some landings in the 170B @ SOV yesterday for a break from deck repair. Going to Homer (PAHO/HOM) and Ninilchik (NIN) in a few days.

www.seldovia.com

Desert185 wrote:Did some landings in the 170B @ SOV yesterday for a break from deck repair. Going to Homer (PAHO/HOM) and Ninilchik (NIN) in a few days.

www.seldovia.com

Ok, I bit and clicked on "seldovia.com." Up comes the local Seldovia web page with "Respect Canada Day" along with a maple leaf flag graphic. What do you guys do the other 364 days of the year up there, eh?

CAVU

Departing the runway here could be pretty ugly...

Cowschwitz! Cowschwitz! you guys crack me up.

After a few days, the newcomers call it cowshitz.

tom

Yeah, at 2500 feet above Cowschwitz you fly into the methane cloud and immediately forget about carbon monoxide poisoning and start worrying about the lower explosive limit of methane.

CAVU wrote:

Desert185 wrote:Did some landings in the 170B @ SOV yesterday for a break from deck repair. Going to Homer (PAHO/HOM) and Ninilchik (NIN) in a few days.

www.seldovia.com

Ok, I bit and clicked on "seldovia.com." Up comes the local Seldovia web page with "Respect Canada Day" along with a maple leaf flag graphic. What do you guys do the other 364 days of the year up there, eh?

CAVU

Fly, fish and fool around.

1SeventyZ wrote:Departing the runway here could be pretty ugly...

<img src="http://www.seldovia.com/webcam/airportcam.jpg" width="700"/>

I watched a rented 172 go off the end into the mud at low tide after his second attempt. Watching the "pilgrims" land on the weekends can be entertaining. One guy with a beautiful Beaver (second airplane from left in the picture) comes close to catching his prop during the rollout on every wheel landing. Sad to see that poor technique with an airplane like that.

Flew to Moab today and had a Green Chile omlet at the Moab Diner. Yummm! Extra nice people there.

We have a Isuzu Rodeo parked at the Airport and we have finally fixed the charging problem, she started after 2 1/2 months of sitting. Yeah!

We went out to the Potash mines to talk tires with the tractor crew. One guy told us that the reason those ponds are dark blue is because the hippies keep trying to bathe in them and now they are dyed blue. We laughed.

Dodged some T-showers on the way home and had a scenic tour of the San Rafael Swell.

Life is good.