RobBurson wrote:Posted at 1400 iPhone. Wallking on South Beach, Newport, Oregon with my wife and daughter NOW!. 68 cauv
S33 airshow last night

Cheers Rob

Edited@1945

The route


At S33 Madras, Oregon Airshow
The 1st night show I have seen. Pretty darn cool. There was a glider trailing sparklers off the wing tips for 100 feet. Jet cars, and a T6 did a bomb run with BIG! pyrotechnics on the ground. M4 and my M7


Sun setting over the Cascade mountains just before the start of the air show.




Mt. Hood


Backcountry Oregon style. Headed west to Newport. Over the Cascade Range.


Headed north from Newport. Passing Depoe Bay, Oregon



Back home at TTD

It wasn't Austin, but it wasn't half bad.

Cheers...Rob

Just wanted to bump this after I added the pictures.

On Sat. August 23, my first flight into Johnson Creek with my flight instructor Chris, my sister Sue, and my nephew Jake. I found JC to be pretty easy to get into and out. We then flew over to Indian Creek for a short break and chatted with some river rafters getting ready for there 6 day trip. Then back to KEUL by 10:30am. Perfect flying weather except for some haze and a little smoke east of Deadwood Res. and Garden Valley.

We flew from OLM to 4S4 Skyport near Portland-Hillsboro. Not being too excited about the pavement it was a refreshing change. Out in an agricultural area, Cornelius. Owned by the Putman's 503-648-9311. No landing fee, but a tie down fee for overnight. Mrs. Putman told me the thieves had drained all the heating oil from her tank, she appeared to be in her 80's. Then offerred me a kitten or two, if I was interested. Great alternative to the beehive. There are several other small grass strips in the area, Sunset I called and it is a community/private strip that didn't want me to land. Kohlmeyer and Olinger, which I didn't check on. Teufel Nursery shows an agricultural airstrip, too.

Rob, you gotta keep that stuff quiet, man. You're flaunting one of the beauties of Oregon, which is that you can go from snooping around the high desert to walking on the beach within 2 hrs.

Cool pics, Erin and I would like to go with you guys sometime over to Madras.

Left Troutdale late this morning with a full load of camping gear and supplies, bike, 10 gallons water, etc.

Climbed out over the Clackamas River and up to cruise altitude of 9500 before crossing over the Cascades near Mt Jefferson. Several fire TFR's are active and flew over one NE of the Sisters Airport, saw a water bomber making his pass. Two hours to Lake View and 25 gallons of fuel.

Then to the Black Rock Desert and overflew the Burning Man Festival Airport. Continued on another half hour to Reno as the gates don't open until tomorrow morning.

I flew back from a four day visit to McCall today with a fantastic tailwind, getting home about an hour before the big rainstorm hit that was following me. I got into some impressive turbulence on the lee side of the Seven Devil mountains!

On Saturday, I flew from McCall down to Idaho City (U98) and back. It's about 65 nm due south of McCall. It was my first time in Idaho City and I loved it! It's a small town (about 500 people) with many buildings dating from the gold rush in the late 1800s. I had lunch, toured a little museum, all within easy walking distance of the very smooth 3400' gravel runway. Those who have trepidation about trying to fly into the deep canyons to visit Johnson Creek might consider this airstrip as a good skill and confidence builder due to its shallower, wider canyon and a thousand feet lower elevation. U98 has a definite slope to it. Land uphill on runway 3, takeoff downhill on runway 21 for the downstream departure!

My brother and I flew up to Grand Canyon Valle in my 61 year old Cessna taildragger and went for a ride in a 79 year old Ford taildragger......living dangerous!
The Valle fly-in is a real fun time with a car show, tractors, hit & miss engines, P-51 and Travel air rides. Highly recomend it.



Grand Canyon RR steam locomotive.
Dale

early a.m. headed out to henrys lake strip just outside of wys. never been
in such good shape ! recently rolled and mowed it was a blast...
had coffee with pure silence and headed back to idaho falls via
mesa falls, and etc. was originaly headed earlier to sulphur to retrieve
glasses left there in june, but got going too late...!

by the way, when i grow up, i want john's job in mccall.... jomac

jomac wrote:early a.m. headed out to henrys lake strip just outside of wys. never been
in such good shape ! recently rolled and mowed it was a blast...
had coffee with pure silence and headed back to idaho falls via
mesa falls, and etc. was originaly headed earlier to sulphur to retrieve
glasses left there in june, but got going too late...!

by the way, when i grow up, i want john's job in mccall.... jomac

Seems to be pattern with you getting going late.

Tuesday TTD to Puw. Went to 00w Lower Granite, 16W Little Goose. These are by the Snake River. Then I visited flier at his air strip. It is built on a hill side and is like landind on an aircraft carrier, mentally challenging.

I'm still in Pullman,Wa visiting rellitives. Home tomottow and will post pictures.

Did a nice 10kt tail wind landing too.

Cheers Rob

Yesterday a friend and I loaded up the 185 with fishing gear and an outboard motor and headed 70 miles north (of Dryden Ontario) to a remote lake where he has a boat cached. The only way into the lake is by floatplane. The wind was blowing fairly hard for fishing purposes, but for landing with floats, if the lake is big enough, there is always a runway available. We caught our limit of walleye in short order, but opted to keep fishing and just throw them back. It was a wonderful day and of course no one else on the lake. We noticed the leaves on the trees are starting to lighten up. Fall comes early in the North country. We had a great flight back, and as always, talked about those countess remote lakes below us, wondering how the fishing is and should we check them out some day. The freedom of floats. All of this is 200 feet from my back door. Hard to beat.

Hi all,

Today I flew over to California hitting 12 airports new to me. The best one was Brownsville (F25) which had a real backcountry feel to it. Even at an elevation of 2120' msl it was surrounded by pines, had a hump in the runway and a drop off to a valley below on the west end. The runway is 2326' long and only 20' wide. There are some hangar homes on the field, kind of rustic.

Great pixs. I love the pictures.

Rob

RobBurson wrote:Tuesday TTD to Puw. Went to 00w Lower Granite, 16W Little Goose. These are by the Snake River. Then I visited flier at his air strip. It is built on a hill side and is like landind on an aircraft carrier, mentally challenging.

I'm still in Pullman,Wa visiting rellitives. Home tomottow and will post pictures.

Did a nice 10kt tail wind landing too.

Cheers Rob

By the river they are gravel with oil so there is no dust.

Cheers...Rob

Last sunday I flew a friend and his family into the Minam Lodge for breakfast. It was his birthday and so we took him into the Minam for the fun of it. It was a beautiful day and we had a nice tail wind all the way from S49 to the landing strip. His wife had never flown with me, but she was really into it. She said "Bob there sure is a lot of eye candy in here." I hopped the fence up to Reds after eating and we took off and had a good flight back to Vale.

Saturday, I left PAMR and flew to Knik Glacier and on to Lake George just to make sure noone moved them.......nope.......still there....just as I remembered. Saw some Dall Sheep watchin me watchin them as I flew by......air was smooth as glass and bright and sunny.......glorious morning to be alive. For a while, I wished I was in a cub instead of the 182....lots of good spots to set down near the glacier

Last week-end, flew up to Scott City, KS to see some friends. WooHoo 130-140 kts the whole way, may have to change my user name !

Whoops! coming home 89 kt avg. guess i'll keep the name. beautiful weather though, not the usual haze.

Didn't fly there, but drove and hiked back to a friends cabin and airstrip this weekend just in time to find a forest fire starting! Just as we got to the end of the road we saw the cabin owners wife circling overhead, she managed to text message to her husband "SMOKE" after a 1/2 mile sprint up the trail, 5 guys working an intense hour of bucket brigade and rolling burning logs into the river took care of it. When the forest service showed up, they poked around a bit, told us we'd done a good job and packed up. Then we just had to finish packing in the woodstove and cabinets for the cabin. The forest service guys were nice enough to help with the wood stove. All I can say is Thank god for advil!

Phil

Good thing you guys got it out, the FS probly woulda let it burn. Sometimes it seems like they don't try hard enough.

Flew to South Lake Tahoe today. It is an incredible day with CAVU conditions and warm temps.

The FBO greeted me and helped tie down the plane before I knew it.

Be aware that the runway at TVL is closed because it is being rebuilt.

Aircraft less than 12,500 lbs can make VFR day time only takeoffs and landings on 5,000 feet of parallel taxiway alpha.

There have been 3 airplanes land on the old runway while construction was in progress. No damage or injuries, but one airplane landed after there was fresh tar on the base, the plane was quite a mess.

The Notam is in effect until October 31st.