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Where did you fly today?

Did you fly somewhere cool, take photos, and feel like telling the tale to make us drool from the confines of our offices? Post them up!
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Tue Sep 13, 2022 11:23 am

Re: Where did you fly today?

Zane,
What does that red and white Beaver behind your kiddos have for a motor?
It looks like it has an extended nose.

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Tue Sep 13, 2022 11:39 am

Re: Where did you fly today?

Zzz wrote:
asa wrote:Picking up backpackers in the Revelation Mountains. September is a mixed bag in Alaska. I'm thankful for less people, beautiful colors, and ready for the season to wind down, but the flying gets harder. I always end up fueling out of jugs more in September than the rest of the season combined. Normally in the cold rain. At least this group wasn't hunting - non-resident hunters are 100% my least favorite groups.

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Is that the Stinson L10 or whatever? Neat looking bird.


1941 Stinson 10-A. An old bird still making money.

Dogsbody wrote:Zane,
What does that red and white Beaver behind your kiddos have for a motor?
It looks like it has an extended nose.

download/file.php?id=3289

Cheers,
Dave


That's the extended engine mount STC. Simply helps with CG since many beavers cabins/baggage are extended aft into the tail significantly more than originally designed.
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Tue Sep 13, 2022 11:53 am

Re: Where did you fly today?

How does it fly with 1 or 2 people and gas? Is it out of forward CG? Seems like a great mod for aft loading.

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Wed Sep 14, 2022 7:11 am

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How does it fly with 1 or 2 people and gas? Is it out of forward CG? Seems like a great mod for aft loading.

Kurt, you should go by the Tower airport and talk to Brian. He and Lori live in their hangar at the airport. They will probably be taking the planes to Florida again in October. I have quite a few hours in their 185 and he even let me fly a PA 12 by myself in Florida years ago.
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Wed Sep 14, 2022 7:39 am

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Thanks for the tip Marty, I think I will do that. I too have a lot of 185 time, that is what I learned to fly in as a teenager. Have owned a couple on floats and wheels. It would be fun to chat with Brian.

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Wed Oct 12, 2022 10:11 am

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Last weekend of "summer" 2022.

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North Long Lake
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Round Lake
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Sitting around the fire
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Neighborhood kids playing football in the backyard (not on their phones! 8)
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Wed Oct 12, 2022 10:44 am

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And then Sunday:

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Merrifield
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Lake Edward
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Pelican South Beach
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Breezy Point airport
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Upper and Middle Cullen
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The Preserve Golf Course
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Angus
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Gull and the upper lakes
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and North Long again
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Last bumble bees
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Wed Oct 12, 2022 7:54 pm

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Just, wow!
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Thu Oct 13, 2022 6:32 am

Re: Where did you fly today?

Fantastic pictures, thank you!

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Thu Oct 13, 2022 7:35 pm

Re: Where did you fly today?

Bar hopping last weekend

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Thu Oct 13, 2022 10:06 pm

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Another successful BFR, Ranger Creek WA Tuesday morning. --- And double wow BRD!
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Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:57 am

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Geez Rob- your river bars are nicer than our runways. Nice pics.

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Mon Oct 24, 2022 5:29 pm

Re: Where did you fly today?

Got out for a post rain shower flight this evening. Our strip is basically on the upper Hudson River. Just flew downstream about 15 miles and back. Love the mist after a rain shower.

Tail end of the shower. A little rainbow through the windshield.
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Just more random photos.
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Time to turn around.
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Tue Oct 25, 2022 1:01 pm

Re: Where did you fly today?

Good stuff Pete!
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Thu Oct 27, 2022 6:12 am

Re: Where did you fly today?

Very nice, "atmospheric" pictures!
Thanks for posting!
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Thu Oct 27, 2022 6:27 am

Re: Where did you fly today?

Beautiful pics, Pete! I love those fog spills.
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Thu Oct 27, 2022 12:51 pm

Re: Where did you fly today?

Thanks guys, just got lucky. But that’s the magic of flying isn’t it! BRD always like your stuff too. Looks like a float plane paradise.

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Sat Oct 29, 2022 9:47 am

Re: Where did you fly today?

Bar hopping the Fraser. Not a lot of animal tracks, maybe when it gets colder.
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Thu Dec 01, 2022 11:46 am

Re: Where did you fly today?

A year or so ago I made a 100 page Motif photo book of some of my favorite images from flying the Brainerd Lakes Area through 2021. If anyone wants to download it, here's the wetransfer link - it'll be up for a week. https://we.tl/t-Fe6yyJlpcm
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Sat Dec 03, 2022 7:56 pm

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Took two of my granddaughters up today and it was clear enough to see the Rockies the Sweet Grass Hills the Bear Paws, Bench Hills, Cypress Hills and the Great Sand Hills. Good visibility on sunny cool winter days on the prairie.
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