Actually Friday,

My wife & I flew over to VT Friday afternoon/evening and on the way home just before sunset she got these photos. Quality isn't the best, but with the haze (Fires in Manitoba?) she got some good relief.

We are coming out of the Champlain Valley heading home.








She really likes the way water is interconnected through the mountains. This is one of hundreds of little linked ponds near us.

Pete

Sodbusters STOL here at KBRD on Saturday, great fun to plow dirt!

Got a break from the smoke this morning was able to take a flight into the Frank Church Wilderness.

Smoky and very dry in the Idaho Backcountry

Flew out to do some work on a customer's plane the other morning. On my way home I was hoping to stop and run John Deeres new X9 demo, but the salesmen weren't out at the field yet. So I just pulled up for a photo op then headed home to combine peas. Got a decent picture out of the deal!

The son and I just flew from Park Rapids, MN to Grants Pass, Oregon in the 172. Flew up close to the Candian border, then down to Sandpoint Idaho. From there to Hermiston,OR and to Aurora Oregon. Was wanting to go visit VANS aircraft but the smoke conditions were supposed to be getting worse. Departed early to make it to GP in VFR conditions.
The smoke started to get bad between the Montana/Idaho border and persisted all the way to Grants Pass. Sure limited the scenic opportunities of the flight.

Definitely smoky this weekend. I flew up to W10 on Whidbey Island on Friday afternoon to see my parents for their 40th Wedding Anniversary. Cruised lower than I wanted just because forward visibility dropped the higher I went. Flight home Saturday to KUAO was better but still smoky. Seems to have cleared yesterday.

Flightseeing - Jackson to Whitefish through the smoke







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Landing at Lower Loon
https://youtu.be/qxYSn4_i2Jk

Takeoff from Lower Loon
https://youtu.be/JRNW6qefUbc

Landing at Cabin Creek
https://youtu.be/usUHwZsyIX4

Ches wrote:Flightseeing - Jackson to Whitefish through the smoke

At a glance I thought you had a rear door removed. That is an impressive window.
-DP

A week or so ago out to Knik with the wife for the first time in Waldo.

Ches wrote:Flightseeing - Jackson to Whitefish through the smoke

At first glance I thought you had a rear door removed. That is an impressive window.
-DP

CamTom12 wrote:Didn’t go anywhere special, but took my oldest for his first “real” flight with just the two of us. We did some patterns (1.5 of them) about 6 months back but he wasn’t old enough for me to handle while flying so we took a tactical pause on the matter.

Did a 1.2 this weekend and he loved it. He did a great job, though he did succumb to the snooze monster before the end. 10/10, will do again as soon as we can!

Awesome Cam!


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Borrowed a 206 and went up in the mountains looking for a crashed B25 from the 50's, and it's scattered bullion of pillaged nazi gold. Didn't find any.

Well, it's been an "interesting" August.

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End of an era

Start of another.

Exciting change, congratulations Brad!

The advertising is working!

Put an MT Ultra on that thing, will make a big difference!

Kurt