Today's flight for 2023

[Ibra]

Mt St Michel (France) and Sail Ships festival in Granville (LFRF airport)

 

 

Edited August 23, 2023 by Ibra

[EricJ]

Came back to AZ from WY on Sunday while Tropical Storm Hilary was making weather all the way up to where we were in WY.   Our departure from WY was delayed waiting for the temperature to rise above the dew point so that we could see the mountains around the airport a little bit better, and particularly the departure down the valley to the south.    Once we did get out it was reasonably smooth and easy until we got back to AZ, where it was scattered cells and a LOT of gusty crosswind for landing.    Pulled out all the stops for gusty xwind landing tricks and used all of the 4500 ft runway at Deer Valley.    I've never taxied off of the runway at that end before.   

And the boat ramps at Lake Powell actually touch the water now!

[Sue Bon]

Staring right up China Airlines's skirt on the taxiway leaving Prague yesterday. There is another commercial airliner holding short to lineup, one landing, and one behind me. I wish the guy behind me could have taken a picture and somehow found a way to get it to me. It was like being a guppy in a shark tank.

[Ibra]

13 hours ago, Sue Bon said:

and one behind me

“Caution prop wash”  you could get an airliner Captain momentarily lose his brain for few seconds using that instruction, skip to 1:00 

 

 

 

 

[aviatoreb]

9 minutes ago, Ibra said:

“Caution prop wash”  you could get an airliner Captain momentarily lose his brain for few seconds using that instruction, skip to 1:00 

 

 

 

 

That'll show-em!

[Sue Bon]

Flew to southern Germany today for lunch with a flying buddy. We were routed south of Zurich for a nice view of the city. At our destination, the Zeppelin was taking off as we were waiting for our departure slot. He named the photo, "the fast and the fat."

 

[Fly Boomer]

17 minutes ago, Sue Bon said:

Flew to southern Germany today for lunch with a flying buddy. We were routed south of Zurich for a nice view of the city. At our destination, the Zeppelin was taking off as we were waiting for our departure slot. He named the photo, "the fast and the fat."

Fun day.

[Sue Bon]

1 hour ago, Fly Boomer said:

Fun day.

It was. We all are so lucky and privileged to be able to do stuff like this.

[Skates97]

Epic flight on Saturday. I decided to try to hit all the airports in the Inland Empire in a single flight. Video and blog post coming in the next week or so.

Totals:
Flight Time 1:58
13 Airports (Including KFUL where I'm based)
12 Touch-n-go's and 1 full stop back at KFUL

[hubcap]

Great flight in Myrtle into KHOT today.

[MikeOH]

5 hours ago, Skates97 said:

Epic flight on Saturday. I decided to try to hit all the airports in the Inland Empire in a single flight. Video and blog post coming in the next week or so.

Totals:
Flight Time 1:58
13 Airports (Including KFUL where I'm based)
12 Touch-n-go's and 1 full stop back at KFUL

Looks like you missed March and Banning?

Oh, and what was the diversion south after Riverside?

[Skates97]

41 minutes ago, MikeOH said:

Looks like you missed March and Banning?

Oh, and what was the diversion south after Riverside?

March won't let you do a touch n go, I'm claiming Banning as no man's land between the IE and Palm Springs. 

Riverside was extremely busy. Ended up flying all the way around to the south side of their airspace after leaving Flabob before I could get tower to acknowledge me. Then tower initially gave me a full stop even though asking for the touch n go, asked again and he then cleared the option and left closed traffic, instead of trying to get a departure to CNO I just asked for a SW departure to get out of his airspace and regroup. 

[EricJ]

Flew to Cal Black airport in southern UT today for the annular eclipse.   That airport is about as BFE as you can get in the 48 contiguous, with the nearest tiny town being about 50 miles away.    The parking ramp filled up and overflowed a bit, but there was space for everybody that showed up.    Was a ton of fun.    A couple guys flew some powered weight-shift hang gliders from Albuquerque the day before and camped out.    There were people from CO, CA, AZ, NM, it was pretty cool.

 

[Sue Bon]

13 hours ago, EricJ said:

Flew to Cal Black airport in southern UT today for the annular eclipse.   That airport is about as BFE as you can get in the 48 contiguous, with the nearest tiny town being about 50 miles away.    The parking ramp filled up and overflowed a bit, but there was space for everybody that showed up.    Was a ton of fun.    A couple guys flew some powered weight-shift hang gliders from Albuquerque the day before and camped out.    There were people from CO, CA, AZ, NM, it was pretty cool.

Do you have photos of the eclipse?

[EricJ]

1 hour ago, Sue Bon said:

Do you have photos of the eclipse?

No, my phone couldn't capture it even through the eclipse glasses, or even looking into the telescope of the guys next to us.  It looked like all of the other pics you see of it, though. 

[larryb]

[0TreeLemur]

We took our son and his girlfriend for a ride around the Valles Caldera in north-central New Mexico.  The view landing at Los Alamos is pretty darn cool.

 

[CChris]

Such a beautiful day yesterday in South Florida. I had to take the plane for a sunset XC. 
 

[Derek]

I flew POU to PDK yesterday, west of the Appalachian ridges.

1. Coal mines. There are some big ones. Wow. Wish I'd taken photos of some of the more massive ones.

2.  Wildfires throughout West Virginia.

3. Holston River towards TYS

[Rwsavory]

At about 2500 ft. In Eastern Arkansas near Crowley’s Ridge.

[Derek]

14 minutes ago, Rwsavory said:

At about 2500 ft. In Eastern Arkansas near Crowley’s Ridge.

Wow, those cloud ribbons.

[0TreeLemur]

On 9/25/2023 at 1:07 PM, Skates97 said:

Epic flight on Saturday. I decided to try to hit all the airports in the Inland Empire in a single flight. Video and blog post coming in the next week or so.

Totals:
Flight Time 1:58
13 Airports (Including KFUL where I'm based)
12 Touch-n-go's and 1 full stop back at KFUL

Too bad you didn't fly a pattern to draw little hats on them- it would look to me like "Spy vs. Spy" 

[Derek]

Lake Lanier, GA.

Grew up spending a lot of time on/in it. Always knew its story and that it had a reputation (and I bore witness to a lot of irresponsible boating), but just learned it's one of the most haunted lakes in America.

[Sue Bon]

1 hour ago, Derek said:

just learned it's one of the most haunted lakes in America.

Haunted how? Ghosts of people killed in irresponsible boating accidents?

[Derek]

3 hours ago, Sue Bon said:

Haunted how? Ghosts of people killed in irresponsible boating accidents?

The lake was created by flooding a community in a valley (including a cemetery).

It has a very high number of drowning deaths. Some say because it is cursed. I just remember how many incompetent boaters there were when I grew up sailing on it. Most of the drownings are boating related.