Awesome video rob. I need to send you some of the video I have and let you edit one up for me. I have the equipment but not the patience. Bout how big was your tailwind there on the way home?

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svanarts wrote:Flew the RV-4 from Oakdale, CA to Reno, NV to deliver it to the new owner.

Scott, what a bittersweet flight that must've been! I'll look out for your old plane on this side of the hill. Happy airplane shopping and good luck finding just the right one.

You mean building the right one... Something LSA-ish that lands short. Maybe not Super Cub short but shorter than my old Champ.

The best antidote for the girl you lost is getting another girl.

Renegade wrote:Awesome video rob. I need to send you some of the video I have and let you edit one up for me. I have the equipment but not the patience. Bout how big was your tailwind there on the way home?

Renegade, ha. Your right, editing is a pain in the butt. Luckily I have time at the fire station. The tail wind at times was 23 kts. The 430 is set to MPH.

At 8500-10500 MSL I was regularly seeing 150 TAS 19" MP 2400 RPM 12.6 GPH Lycoming 235 B4B5 low compression.

Cheers...Rob

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Nice work, Rob. Did you go solo, or did you take the Mrs?

AhHA! You switched to mph you cheater. Still those Maule's are fast (is that still a dirty word around here ?). Fastest i ever saw in the Husky was 159 KNOTS!! Traveling from south texas to north texas at just 3500 feet no less. Lets just say it was cool

1SeventyZ wrote:Nice work, Rob. Did you go solo, or did you take the Mrs?

All by myself. I met the family down there. Cheers...Rob

Flew down to Pueblo, CO in my buddies Bellanca Super Viking. The Spitfire Grill makes a pretty mean breakfast burrito smoothered in green chili. The Super Viking has a tall panel. As you can see by the picture it has limited vis even in level flight. Other than that it is a real solid flying aircraft.

Flew to BFF to pick up our EAA chapter president, flew up over the family ranch near Oelrichs SD, back to CDR for a flyin breakfast, toured a fossil museum at Chadron State College, flew back to BFF to let our president off, back to SNY where my friend, the super cat driver from FTG, was lounging around. Was such a beautiful day we flew to OGA to have an afternoon sandwitch with a working and hunting buddy of his who was in town to do some deer hunting. Flew back to SNY where I did a beautiful wheel landing in the dark.
Best day of flying since I was in Idaho back in June.
Put 6 hrs on the plane.
HC

Flew from Moab, down Cataract to Dark Canyon then over to Red Canyon, back to Lake Powell, down the Dirty Devil River Gorge over to Happy Canyon, then U34 to stretch the legs.

There was a Husky at Dirty Devil, had tuqouise-blue wings. Any of you?

I was just excited to see a plane there.

Great weather to be down in Canyonlands flying around. Airstrips are in great shape. Mineral was our lunch stop.

lazflyn wrote:

Great weather to be down in Canyonlands flying around. Airstrips are in great shape. Mineral was our lunch stop.

Dang, I should have flown over Mineral. Usually don't see planes there either. Sounds fun.

I need to trade this Cherokee in soon.

Flew from C Springs to Pueblo for breakfast and to work on some instrument approaches with a prior student and low and behold we end up doing a little mountain flying. Darn the bad luck.


Cripple Creek, Colorado. Great little gambling town that sits West of Pike's Peak. I hear we voted in higher betting limits.


North Face of Pike's Peak. Hard to believe it is 23 November and there is hardly any snow.

The fog finally broke at Green Mountain so I lifted off to take some pictures of local airstrips for the Shortfield.com database. While the fog was clear at the home base, it wasn't clear at all to the west. I knew Scappoose was clear as I'd dialed up their ASOS prior to departure.

"Speed is safety" was the mantra from my mountaineering days, and I chanted it aloud as I scooted quickly over the fog to clearer skies at Scappoose for a few practice landings while I waited for the clouds to burn off. "Good judgement is safety," never caught on with mountaineers as nobody would ever be out climbing mountains if they had it.



Soon the fog cleared and I flew around to snap a few photos. Dead calm on the ground but a nice stiff breeze blowing out of the east. The hills to the east help create plenty of turbulence. Taking pictures of airstrips, particularly when the camera, pilot, and airplane won't hold still is tough.
Still, I managed to snap a couple good ones of Daybreak and Fly for Fun (W59). I was too close for a good shot of Brush Prairie but uploaded one anyway.

Just minding my own business at work when I get a message from Daniel asking if I would like to fly up to the Salt river for the afternoon. Well... let me think............Ryan tower Cessna flight of two ready for a North departure! We flew through some beautiful canyons, amazing how we keep finding new ones, landed at Gleason flats for a little hiking and Daniel's dog Sierra loved swimming in the river even though it was a little on the cold side.
Not a bad day at work!

Daniel & Sierra

Sun is setting time to head for home.
Dale

No cool pictures. No death defying landings. Just cruised the north Willamette valley this morning. Clear and beautiful. A little bumpy in places, but overall, a great flight. Damn, I like this little plane.

tom

Latest adventure was Red Butte, one of Az's first airstrips. Read that around 20 Ford Trimotors were based here in the 1920's. Hard to imagine what it would have been like to drive a 35 mph Model T way out to this remote place and find a squadron of Trimotors waiting to fly you over the Grand Canyon, must have been quite impressive.


Red Butte. Lots of large Prairie Dog holes I probably should not land here again till I get something with Bushwheels. Old Grand Canyon airlines hangar is being used for firewood by the offroaders, sure would be nice if the forrest service would restore and preserve this historic place.


Hiked to the top of Red Butte, the Grand Canyon is just a few miles in the distance. Small handful of twigs made a welcome fire to warm up some lunch. Watched a helicopter do some geomagnetic surveying just below the Butte. Nice day.

-Dale

Dropped into Moose Creek over the weekend. Not a soul in sight. Outfitter has vacated for a brief time, no ranger, and nothing but deer carcasses on the runway. Beautiful day to be out and about.

Flew out to Giant rock and Hiked around for a While. I can't believe all the cool stories of the history of this place. Now pretty much deserted and not much of a smooth spot left to land on. The 4X4 guys left some huge ruts on the dry lake portion of the runway so you have to pick a spot without big bumps to land on.

Flew to the Grand Canyon yesterday working on my commercial. We did a VFR fly over from Dragon and Zuni it was really a neat flight, and with surprisingly clam winds too.





also saw an old tri-motor take off that does tours there. Sound of pure power it was very cool.

Sp Crater in Northern Az. Actually my sister informed me that this was named Shit Pot by the local cowboys a long time ago but the maps label it as SP.
Landed on a dirt road at the base to do some hiking.


View into SP, pretty cool to be standing on top of an old volcano. Tomorrow this will be covered in snow from a big storm already starting to roll in.
Dale