Today’s flight for 2021

[FlyingScot]

From beautiful over the NC mountains to Snow, ice in the layers, and a low approach in the grips of the Great Lakes Snow & Ice Machine…

 

 

[Ragsf15e]

Breakfast at 1S9, Chewelah, WA.  About 30 degrees out but sunny.  Runway was slicker than I thought and almost ended up in the dirt turning off a little faster than a walk!  Recovered and very slowly rolled down to the next exit.  Great breakfast at the Rusty Putter!  5 planes flew in this morning!  Departed for a scenic flight over Sandpoint ID and Lake Pend Oreille.

[EricJ]

Went over the Grand Canyon today and it was on fire.

[Ragsf15e]

3 hours ago, EricJ said:

Went over the Grand Canyon today and it was on fire.

Can’t believe there’s still fires this late in the year!  Recently I say small ones in Oregon and idaho, but I think our current storm should finish them.

[EricJ]

36 minutes ago, Ragsf15e said:

Can’t believe there’s still fires this late in the year!  Recently I say small ones in Oregon and idaho, but I think our current storm should finish them.

According to the tower at KGCN they were prescribed burns.   Made a lot of smoke and it went down into the canyon.   Got a lot of very cool pics from it!

 

Edited December 7, 2021 by EricJ

[0TreeLemur]

I think our airframes cast the coolest shadows...  On an IFR flight yesterday over Fort Smith, AR, enroute to Tuscaloosa, in the tops at 9000 in our C.

 

 

[EricJ]

My new FB background pic, also from yesterday:

[ArtVandelay]

I think our airframes cast the coolest shadows...  On an IFR flight yesterday over Fort Smith, AR, enroute to Tuscaloosa, in the tops at 9000 in our C.
 
 

I like the halo effect, I wonder what’s causing that?

[0TreeLemur]

Just now, ArtVandelay said:

I like the halo effect, I wonder what’s causing that?

Preferential backscattering of light towards the sun by the cloud droplets.   Spheres act a bit like tiny mirrors with a tendency to scatter more light back towards the source than other directions.

[Hank]

3 minutes ago, 0TreeLemur said:

Preferential backscattering of light towards the sun by the cloud droplets.   Spheres act a bit like tiny mirrors with a tendency to scatter more light back towards the source than other directions.

I've always been told that the circular rainbow around the shadow is caused by ice in the clouds . . . .

[0TreeLemur]

38 minutes ago, ArtVandelay said:

I like the halo effect, I wonder what’s causing that?

Cool explanation here...

https://pages.mtu.edu/~scarn/teaching/GE4250/scattering_lecture_slides.pdf

[exM20K]

@Greg_D came by to bring my TN to DMAX for annual.  I think it's the first time since i've owned it that someone else has flown it.  Was a little weird watching him fly away. 

 

The plane is much quieter from the outside than I thought it would be.  Maybe I need to ask Maxwell for some of those Loud Pipes the Save Lives when installed on Harleys.

Really appreciate his making the trip as my schedule got packed this week.

 

 

[FlyingScot]

Today 3 hours of cloud deck as far as you could see punctuated by the Appalachians  “peeking” above the deck. Everything was smooth and tranquil right up through the approach - then on short final winds variable from 30deg to direct crosswind 12G20. 
 

Whoever said “there isn’t such a thing as too much crosswind practice” was absolutely right - 

 

[Stan]

Boxing day saw me taking my youngest two granddaughters, along with their mother (my youngest) on their first ride. From HEF to ESN for breakfast, out over the Chesapeake Bay. 

Great day for Papa!!!!