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Today's flight for 2018


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32 minutes ago, aviatoreb said:

...ok over to private...

...but before I do - the socks - do you wear the finger socks? 

No, no socks. My sartorially hopeful children bought me some 'toe socks' a few years ago hoping to minimize the embarrassment. They don't work, Vibrams are meant to be worn commando.

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39 minutes ago, HRM said:

No, no socks. My sartorially hopeful children bought me some 'toe socks' a few years ago hoping to minimize the embarrassment. They don't work, Vibrams are meant to be worn commando.

...but just so we are clear - when you say you wear your shoes commando, you aren't saying you wear your shoes but no underwear, right?  Just so we are clear on that.

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7 hours ago, Skates97 said:

Ah, thank you for getting the thread back on track! :)

Come on guys................this is one of the most popular threads.  This drift isn't fair to @bonal

How about a nice U.P. sunset to get this back on track?  This is a view looking north west from just north of KIMT, my home airport,  towards the Keweenaw Peninsula jutting out into Lake Superior.

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Ok, OK, back on track.....

Ok - here's a view out the window today on my way home from DC.  A work trip. Nice thing is I managed to get my teaching in am and still to a contractors meeting on Monday afternoon, and I was home in time today to get a little mountain bike ride in with my dog then to work for a pretty full day.

What's special about this picture is, its looking down at Ithaca (runway in sight) where Cornell is just off the runway and running around there somewhere is my middle son. And my oldest son graduated from there this spring.  I guess I will need to go fly high over Duke university so I can do some remote sensing spy plane action on my oldest son's activities from high altitude as well.

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Very well...

  1. Taken FROM A MOONEY (recently).
  2. Out the pilot's window at a couple of thousand feet.
  3. The Neches river ship channel, Southeast Texas, USA.
  4. Note the cloud 'shadow line', too cool.

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On 1/15/2018 at 7:51 PM, KLRDMD said:

This long straight "road" is where Trump is building the wall. It is the US/Mexico border in AZ.

No political discussion implied, just showing you the area . . .

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I've seen similarly straight roads in other places - but most interesting the Erie Canal is like that - interesting because it represents some very old engineering but yet so long and straight.  The Roman roads all over Europe are sometimes like that too.

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45 minutes ago, gsxrpilot said:

Labor Day provided some fun IMC. @"Chocks" and I added two approaches to the logbook including an RNAV right down to minimums. An all around excellent day to fly.

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Boy do I love those wingtips. If only they were available for the Ovation.

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Man August was a terrible month for our flying.  After finishing July away from home the Mendocino complex fires broke out in Mendocino county quickly moving into Lake county. The TFR put our airport out of commission and delayed our scheduled annual. Finally was able to get that taken care of only to have the transponder quit while having VFR cert completed. Another couple weeks pass and am finally able to get back to flying. We took a needed trip for supplies and flew over the Ranch fire area. We have seen 40 70 even 100k acre fires before but this on at over 400 thousand acres and still burning is really beyond comprehension.  Smoke was so thick approaching Willows that we couldn't see the field until under 3 miles out.  I think my flying was good considering the long break. 

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12 hours ago, HRM said:

..and yet you captured incredible photos. What IS IT ABOUT PICTURES FRAMED WITH A MOONEY WING? Just ethereal!

Thanks but I have to give credit where it's due, almost all of the in flight pictures I post were taken by my wife.

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Finally made the trip over to Provincetown, MA today.  I took along my favorite copilot.

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We brought the bikes along for ground transportation.

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We got to fly directly over Logan on the trip over.  (That has never happened and was kind of neat)

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Ptown in the distance.  It was a grey cool day in Ptown but we had a good time anyway.

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43 minutes ago, KLRDMD said:

Look what I saw on the ramp today. Not a sole around, both doors open in the middle of the ramp.

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Good ol' CV, the experimental Mooney.  I see they added flames to the spinner.  I wonder how may knots that's worth?

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Caution!  It may be a trap..?

 

Looks like a classic ethics test...  especially if it has a push to start button, no key...

Ken, you passed!  :)

 

Somebody wanted to know how committed you are to your twin engine beauty...

 

See any other fence sitters considering getting into a really nice Long Body Mooney around?

If it were a serious trap being set... all the color screens would be on...

 

It would be really easy to get drawn in.

The fancy leather seats are sooo comfy...  

From Stuff I saw at KOSH...

Best regards,

-a-

 

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