Today’s flight for 2021

[carusoam]

Nice work Dom!

Now for the gravity switch…

This place looks magical.

Best regards,

-a-

[spistora]

Technically not my flight, although I did work my plane into the video.  A U2 was taking off just after my flight while refueling. Pretty impressive.

 

 

 

[carusoam]

Spistora,

That deserves today’s videography award!

Capturing two of the highest performance, single engine, planes, on the planet, in the same frame!

Sometimes, you only get one chance to get it right…

Fantastico!

Best regards,

-a-

[211º]

The cross county was supposed to be clear sky today - Oof!  I wondered as I had about 2 miles visibility (down at an angle from 7,000 feet) if is was due to wild fires far, far way.  Over Illinois and Indiana, it was flying in milk.

[Stetson20]

On 5/18/2021 at 10:56 PM, Skates97 said:

About a month ago we flew up to Redding in Northern California for my granddaughter's baptism. To escape the LA Basin we headed east to find clear skies and get on top of the marine layer. I'm still working on the IFR rating or it would have been an easy climb up through it.... I didn't have cameras going but flying past Mt Wilson with the marine layer pushed right up against the mountain I pulled out my phone for this quick video.

 

How’s the IFR training going? Got your instrument rating yet? 

[Skates97]

2 hours ago, Stetson20 said:

How’s the IFR training going? Got your instrument rating yet? 

Nope, the plane was down for 3 1/2 weeks for a GFC500 and then a handful of weekend trips have kept me from the hours needed. Sitting at about 23 hours right now, getting in 1-2 flights a week. Flew my cross country a couple Saturday's ago so all that is left is more studying for the oral and knocking out the rest of the hours. Heading to Oshkosh tomorrow so that will add another week to the delay.

[Oldguy]

Headed down to Lakeland this weekend early (BCOD) Saturday morning to avoid the rough stuff I can’t get over in my J. Had a great shot of the sunrise. 
 

My next door neighbor had no problem getting above the weather when he left Friday afternoon. 
(I hangar in the nice neighborhood!)

 

[aviatoreb]

Went to Hyde Park - home of Franklin D Roosevelt - with my son the history major.  Kptd->20N

Intense smoke haze on the way back.  A cool fish bowl effect though - more on that on the western smoke thread.

Also we got passed by a pair of F35's 1000 ft above - they went right by us but I couldn't get my camera out fast enough.  Zoom in you will see them.  They were 3 or 4 knots faster than my Mooney but burned more fuel.

[dominikos]

a bit late to share my first long cross country flight. TX to OH ( 6R3 to 2G2). 1960 NM round trip for college tour.

really appreciate community help and advices with weather planning. the trip went well. as advised, worked around the weather. a few cool things about a trip:

• meeting another mooneyspacer @MooneyMike at 6I2
• 30 mins flight from 2G2 to land in 2 more states (WV and PA)
• stopping at KPCD to get Oshkosh special gas for $3.75

And it was easy traveling for my daughter, she slept most of the time… if it were not for ATC flight following, it would be quite lonely…

 

[carusoam]

Great aviator!

Daughter who can sleep through inverted flight!

Nice pirep too!

Go MS!

-a-

[amillet]

Lopez Island for 3 mile walk to lunch ( each way). 3/10’s hour flight after a “GAMI” check flight

[skydvrboy]

A couple of firsts for me yesterday.  First time flying in the O2 levels.  First time using my home built O2 system.  First time landing at Leadville.

Went to 16500' and it was awesome!  Highly recommend oxygen to anyone flying out west, it just opens up so many doors.   O2 sats were comfortably in the 90's with my home made system.  A nice bonus was the 33 degree air on a hot summer day!

I put a 4-place system together with pneumatic push connect fittings and a beer oxygenation flow meter.  Total cost, including brand new O2 bottle was around $200. 

KLXV, been there, got the T-shirt and the pilot cert.

I guess it was also my first time flying through Weston Pass inverted.  Pretty cool.  @carusoam Help!

Edited August 17, 2021 by skydvrboy

[jaylw314]

On 8/8/2021 at 5:35 PM, amillet said:

Lopez Island for 3 mile walk to lunch ( each way). 3/10’s hour flight after a “GAMI” check flight

 

 

Nice!  I usually fly to Friday Harbor via Whidbey Island to minimize the time I'm over open water

[carusoam]

Some of my friends are introverted, others are extroverted…

None stay inverted… for long..! 

-a-

 

[aviatoreb]

Finally got to kitty hawk today!  It was awesome!  And very convenient for flyers.  Got some tshirts.  Plus I was a fantastically interesting conversationalist on the way down.

[aviatoreb]

BTW - check out our ground transportation - xootr scooters.  These are "man"sized scooters with big wheels you see and enough of a board to stand on feet side by side despite my size 13's.  They are trivially easy to learn to use and very very low effort on flat terrain like a barrier island - with almost zero effort - less than walking, I measured with my gps we were rolling at 6mph.  And like kick kick twice then roll for like 30 seconds, repeat.  They fold very very small very very fast.  I have a pair and they are perfect for short rolls in certain terrain.  Like 2 miles or so.

https://www.amazon.com/XOOTR-Cruz-Teen-Adult-Scooter/dp/B07NGLK499/ref=asc_df_B07NGLK499/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312154671095&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12749771414950824550&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9005342&hvtargid=pla-646423355489&psc=1

[exM20K]

1 hour ago, aviatoreb said:

BTW - check out our ground transportation - xootr scooters.  These are "man"sized scooters with big wheels you see and enough of a board to stand on feet side by side despite my size 13's.  They are trivially easy to learn to use and very very low effort on flat terrain like a barrier island - with almost zero effort - less than walking, I measured with my gps we were rolling at 6mph.  And like kick kick twice then roll for like 30 seconds, repeat.  They fold very very small very very fast.  I have a pair and they are perfect for short rolls in certain terrain.  Like 2 miles or so.

https://www.amazon.com/XOOTR-Cruz-Teen-Adult-Scooter/dp/B07NGLK499/ref=asc_df_B07NGLK499/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312154671095&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12749771414950824550&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9005342&hvtargid=pla-646423355489&psc=1

Wife bought me one years ago, and it is da bomb, as the kids used to say.  Company founder was an enthusiastic GA pilot and owner who was, sadly, lost when his MU2 went missing on a return flight from the Bahamas.

That they fold and stay folded makes them a perfect fit in and out of the Moo ey baggage compartment.

-dan

 

[aviatoreb]

Today was drop off day for our youngest son for his freshman year.  In Rhode Island - hurricane cleared out in time today. 

Here I am flying home - seems like cool sunset picture between layers - and you can see the GI275 in reflection in the window.

[Mooney in Oz]

On 9/3/2021 at 12:00 PM, aviatoreb said:

Today was drop off day for our youngest son for his freshman year.  In Rhode Island - hurricane cleared out in time today. 

Here I am flying home - seems like cool sunset picture between layers - and you can see the GI275 in reflection in the window.

Hi Erik.  
That is a beautiful picture enhanced with the GI275 reflection. If it was mine, I’d have it enlarged, framed and placed on a wall.

[aviatoreb]

27 minutes ago, Mooney in Oz said:

Hi Erik.  
That is a beautiful picture enhanced with the GI275 reflection. If it was mine, I’d have it enlarged, framed and placed on a wall.

Thank you Victor!  I am thinking about it!  What makes it cool is the lighting and colors and not just any old print service could capture that.  I don't currently know a proper print service.  But I think I will try!  I thought that was a really pretty moment and I took several pictures trying to get just the right moment with the light, as I often do, and that one where the light is making that beam effect and also glinting on the tks strip ended up the nicest.  Its just nifty the way the light was just right to also pick up the reflection of the full gi275 dial.  They really are wonderful and bright instruments!

One cool thing that this evening was an example of is that in the sky, the sunset is a little later than the official sunset time given at ground level.  And once you start descending the sun disappears quickly!  On the other side, some evenings if you take off right after sunset, you can see the sun again as you climb to altitude. 

[Mooney in Oz]

8 minutes ago, aviatoreb said:

Thank you Victor!  I am thinking about it!  What makes it cool is the lighting and colors and not just any old print service could capture that.  I don't currently know a proper print service.  But I think I will try!  I thought that was a really pretty moment and I took several pictures trying to get just the right moment with the light, as I often do, and that one where the light is making that beam effect and also glinting on the tks strip ended up the nicest. 

Well done. Was the GI275 reflection a coincidence in that you did not notice it until after the pic shot?

[aviatoreb]

1 minute ago, Mooney in Oz said:

Well done. Is the GI275 reflection a coincidence in that you did not notice it until after the pic shot?

I noticed it, and I even changed my direction of flight a little bit to place it right where I wanted to in the scene as the reflection crept around the curved wind screen.  Fun things to do while on an iff flight plan!  I pointed about 10 degrees to the right of my flight path for about 1 min as I snapped about half a dozen shots.  SO I guess you can say I posed the scene.

[Mooney in Oz]

13 minutes ago, aviatoreb said:

I noticed it, and I even changed my direction of flight a little bit to place it right where I wanted to in the scene as the reflection crept around the curved wind screen.  Fun things to do while on an iff flight plan!  I pointed about 10 degrees to the right of my flight path for about 1 min as I snapped about half a dozen shots.  SO I guess you can say I posed the scene.

A good job in capturing all together at the right moment as time waits for no one!

It’s a shame picturesque sunrises and sunsets are only for a very short time.

Good luck in finding a good print service and thanks for sharing.

[aviatoreb]

4 hours ago, Mooney in Oz said:

A good job in capturing all together at the right moment as time waits for no one!

It’s a shame picturesque sunrises and sunsets are only for a very short time.

Good luck in finding a good print service and thanks for sharing.

Thanks!

I sort of have the opposite opinion - I think part of the beauty of the perfect sunset is knowing it is just a moment, ephemeral.  If it were there all the time, we would grow bored with it.  But knowing its just perfect for a moment makes us want to jump up and go look at it while the time is right!

[aviatoreb]

4 hours ago, Mooney in Oz said:

A good job in capturing all together at the right moment as time waits for no one!

It’s a shame picturesque sunrises and sunsets are only for a very short time.

Good luck in finding a good print service and thanks for sharing.

This one was the runner up.  Just like one minute earlier.  I was descending so I was a little higher which with descending makes the changing light of the sunset unfold quickly.  That the gi275 wasn’t framed well but did show up is why I turned right a few degrees.  I like that the clouds are glowing here but I liked the glint beams of the sun better in the other one.

actuslly both of these are more vivid in my iPhone 12 plus - seems this website downgrades the quality.