Today's flight for 2023

[211º]

Following the transitioning moon westbound in an early morning flight to KC. Butter smooth, very quiet on the radio - no meows on 121.5, weird to get Chicago Center on initial call up instead of Grissom Approach. And nice to discern the ground for my just-in-case needs about 30 minutes before sunrise.

[Tim-37419]

no meows on 121.5? Now I'm questioning the whole story  

[Ibra]

2 hours ago, Tim-37419 said:

no meows on 121.5? Now I'm questioning the whole story  

All those cats on guard go to sleep? 

[0TreeLemur]

NNE bound at 11,500 about 20 NM south of the Colorado-New Mexico border last Sunday (6/18), 154 KTAS burning 7.8 gph.  The photo shows the canyon of the Rio Grande where it has cut through a ~30 million year old flood basalt deposit.  In the distance is the San Louis valley in Colorado.  Looks otherworldly.

 

[EricJ]

Followed this in to land, then occupied the ramp with it for a while.

[Ibra]

Rutan-Varieze Jet 

[Ibra]

Went with co-owner and kid to see Gyrocopters gathering (they call them poor man Helicopters or Rotary even if their propellers is aligned with direction of travel like fixedWings ), then quick English Channel crossing to Lydd (EGMD) for some British rolls and tea 

[211º]

I’m consistently and constantly pleased with the usefulness of IFR - before my ticket this flight would have been legal, but I would have been stressed the whole way about what was really waiting for me at the other end.

I’m sure others have noted this… but I’m pretty sure that I smelled something similar to smoke from wood fires as I descended into the haze.

[Fly Boomer]

On 6/25/2023 at 11:39 PM, EricJ said:

Followed this in to land, then occupied the ramp with it for a while.

Looks like a Starship, but I didn't realize any of those were flying.

[EricJ]

1 hour ago, Fly Boomer said:

Looks like a Starship, but I didn't realize any of those were flying.

It is a Starship.   Dude has two of them, and there are apparently one or two others flying, but that's all.

[0TreeLemur]

With fuel at my home drome at $6.50 and my tanks needing about 50 gallons, I flew 25 minutes north for a top off.

 

[Rwsavory]

Heading North from Charleston SC. The rainbow was a nice capstone to our trip.

[Rick Junkin]

4 hours ago, 0TreeLemur said:

With fuel at my home drome at $6.50 and my tanks needing about 50 gallons, I flew 25 minutes north for a top off.

 

Looks like you got close to an hour of flight time AND saved about $30 on the fuel. Nice work!

Cheers,
Rick

[0TreeLemur]

20 hours ago, Rick Junkin said:

Looks like you got close to an hour of flight time AND saved about $30 on the fuel. Nice work!

Cheers,
Rick

I flew up/back 24 square burning 7.8 gph LOP in cruise.  The engine monitor says that I burned just a tad under 10 gals up and back.

[EricJ]

Used Mooney lot at Winslow today.    This is on an isolated ramp away from the main ramp that is otherwise completely empty.     They're all early J models.    The one facing the camera has been sitting there for a few years after a gear-up incident.   Somebody replaced the prop, but the rest of the mostly superficial damage underneath has not been repaired.    A month or two ago when I was up there I saw somebody had the cowl off doing something, but who knows what.   The one on the right also seems a little ratty but this is the first time I've seen it there.   Seemed weird to see two J models sitting all alone on that huge ramp so had to stop and see what was up.

[RoundTwo]

On 7/2/2023 at 6:13 PM, 0TreeLemur said:

With fuel at my home drome at $6.50 and my tanks needing about 50 gallons, I flew 25 minutes north for a top off.

 

We stopped there both ways on the trip to Longview, TX for MooneyMax. If I had some 5 gallons jugs, I would have filled those up too.

[FlyingScot]

 

Sleeping Bear Dunes on a beautiful Sunday afternoon - 

[0TreeLemur]

Sunday returning from New Mexico- avoiding thunderstorms at 7,500 ft. over eastern Arkansas.   We cinched up before going under this stuff.  To our pleasant surprise, it was smooth as glass.

 

 

[Ragsf15e]

Mt Rainier with St Helens way in the back…

[hammdo]

That’s beautiful…

-Don

[hubcap]

Had to shoot an approach into John Tune thru a cloudburst

[hammdo]

That looks like 0 fun right there…

wow…

-Don

[PMcClure]

Flew up to Waukesha for work in the area and got to do the shoreline flight both ways. Fun! 

[BloodRedSkies]

Finally got my new to me '69 E back home. Two stops from Fresno to Minnesota in Salt Lake and Rapid City.

[The Other Red Baron]

On 7/17/2023 at 5:42 PM, 0TreeLemur said:

Sunday returning from New Mexico- avoiding thunderstorms at 7,500 ft. over eastern Arkansas.   We cinched up before going under this stuff.  To our pleasant surprise, it was smooth as glass.

 

 

Jul 16th we were going opposite direction dodging storms and stuck in smoke that weekend. I23 -> ARG -> VBT