Today’s Flight - 2024

[Hank]

Crossing the Big Muddy into Loosiana, headed for Houston over the weekend. Beautiful day to be flying!

Anything happening out this way anytime soon?

[exM20K]

45 minutes ago, Hank said:

Crossing the Big Muddy into Loosiana, headed for Houston over the weekend. Beautiful day to be flying!

Anything happening out this way anytime soon?

Me too! Of course, the pics are upside down, sigh.

[Hank]

44 minutes ago, exM20K said:

Me too! Of course, the pics are upside down, sigh.

@carusoam can rescue you!

[dkkim73]

1 hour ago, exM20K said:

Me too! Of course, the pics are upside down, sigh.

Impressed. I don't have the guts to try inverted in a Mooney. 

[Sue Bon]

On 10/24/2024 at 1:55 AM, exM20K said:

Of course, the pics are upside down, sigh.

That's ok. @Mooney in Oz and @Joshua Blackh4t can see them correctly!

[wombat]

Larches and fresh snow in the North Cascades, as well as a I think it's the Entiat river valley from last Sunday

 

[thomas1142]

On 10/23/2024 at 6:08 PM, Hank said:

Anything happening out this way anytime soon?

We flew out on Wednesday also. Wings Over Houston is this weekend.

[Hank]

1 hour ago, thomas1142 said:

We flew out on Wednesday also. Wings Over Houston is this weekend.

I'll be watching the Blues tomorrow. Saw them flying around the last couple of days, practicing--that's how I found out they were coming. 

[thomas1142]

11 hours ago, Hank said:

I'll be watching the Blues tomorrow. Saw them flying around the last couple of days, practicing--that's how I found out they were coming. 

Yea, we are also going to the show today. When we left FL we heard the controller informing others of the practice in Pensacola. When we got to Houston Angel 7 was on approach. 

[carusoam]

@exM20K Dan, I’ve got you covered!

thanks to Hank @Hank…

Best regards,

-a-

[toto]

Couple of interesting military interactions recently..

First one, flying about 10 miles south of Whiteman AFB, we were head to head with a B-2 that didn’t appear on ADS-B and the controller (Whiteman Approach) asked the B-2 to maneuver out of our way. We had kind of a nice view of a B-2 making a 90-degree turn right in front of us. No photo, unfortunately. Whiteman Approach asked us a couple of times to call the traffic after it turned, but we lost sight. I said to the controller “we lost sight of him after the turn” and the controller laughed and said “well, it is a stealth bomber.”

Second one, flying near Topeka right after the Thunderbirds show a few weeks ago, had a bunch of traffic calls for an F-16 heading inbound off our right wing. He ended up passing right under us. Photos out the window were again crap, but at least this time he was on ADS-B

[MB65E]

Coming from the west of Vegas for the NBAA convention. Version 1.0 Whelen LED lamp. 

Co-worker took the shot from the hotel of my landing light 35m away before I was vectored for the ILS to 1L at LAS. $90 event fee at Atlantic. Beats the 120 uber ride from Jean. 7h in the Mooney that trip! 
-Matt

[dkkim73]

5 hours ago, toto said:

Couple of interesting military interactions recently..

First one, flying about 10 miles south of Whiteman AFB, we were head to head with a B-2 that didn’t appear on ADS-B and the controller (Whiteman Approach) asked the B-2 to maneuver out of our way. 

Flying out of Osan in an aero club 152 in the 1980s, we once had to do 360s for a U2 inbound. My instructor put me (kid) up to asking the controller to tell us what type aircraft it was... Controller paused, minimally annoyed, "traffic no factor".

 Saw a few high speed Eagle scrambles to cover the DMZ (banked taxiway, rotating midfield , unrestricted climb) flying out of there... interesting fly on the wall viewpoint. I'm a C152, that's pretty close to the actual weight. 

 

[Ragsf15e]

19 hours ago, toto said:

Couple of interesting military interactions recently..

First one, flying about 10 miles south of Whiteman AFB, we were head to head with a B-2 that didn’t appear on ADS-B and the controller (Whiteman Approach) asked the B-2 to maneuver out of our way. We had kind of a nice view of a B-2 making a 90-degree turn right in front of us. No photo, unfortunately. Whiteman Approach asked us a couple of times to call the traffic after it turned, but we lost sight. I said to the controller “we lost sight of him after the turn” and the controller laughed and said “well, it is a stealth bomber.”

Second one, flying near Topeka right after the Thunderbirds show a few weeks ago, had a bunch of traffic calls for an F-16 heading inbound off our right wing. He ended up passing right under us. Photos out the window were again crap, but at least this time he was on ADS-B

It seems some military aircraft do have adsb out, but when I got out (admittedly ~9 years ago) there were whole fleets of aircraft with no clear path to get it.  It’s not so simple as a quick transponder upgrade in a very complicated, integrated system designed in the 80s.  I think some of them you’re getting on the ADS-R (rebroadcast) traffic that atc radar is seeing.  Not sure why you didn’t get that from the B2… maybe ATC can’t see it either!

 

[EricJ]

Went to the Safford Air Show in Safford, AZ, yesterday.    They parked the fly-in attendees between two taxiways.    This is the F4F Wildcat leaving after the show was over.    It's pretty easy to spot the Mooney in the crowd. 

[Marc_B]

Early bird gets the worm…but it goes down easier with some coffee!

[Rwsavory]

A beautiful morning in Arkansas.

[dkkim73]

Actually yesterday on a layered cloudy day. Nice flying overall. 

"Geology illustrated" near Wilsall: 

[Ibra]

I went to Cannes (LFMD) and then Elba (LIRJ) then flew back via Pisa & Genova and some cloud surfing over Alps before heading back to flatlands

[dkkim73]

2 hours ago, Ibra said:

I went to Cannes (LFMD) and then Elba (LIRJ) then flew back via Pisa & Genova and some cloud surfing over Alps before heading back to flatlands

Ibra, 

Is it easy to "just go" from country to country in Europe? At least for EU countries? I imagine there are fees, etc, but are you pre-filling customs stuff, worrying about ADIZs, etc?
Thanks,
D

[Ibra]

3 hours ago, dkkim73 said:

Is it easy to "just go" from country to country in Europe? At least for EU countries?

Yes it’s easy within Schengen+EU as no immigration & customs are required

* In southern countries like France, Italy…the flights are still “international” one still need to file mandatory flight plans, possibly gendec, make radio contact at borders…as these countries puts ICAO requirements above Schengen/EU laws, however, this is merely an ICAO reporting requirement: no restriction on where you can land and you don’t have to see anyone.

* In northern countries like Germany, it’s easier as Schengen/EU flights are considered “domestic or national” (sub-ICAO): I flew Belgium-Germany-Austria without flight plan not talking to anyone except airport guys, this sounds more like “just go”  UK (and Switzerland) need more planning: one have to comply with some immigration and customs rules like sGAR, these are not difficult once one gets used to them (it’s like eAPIS in US or Canpass in Canada) 

For fees (and Avgas), it’s manageable in small and medium airports in countries with light GA tradition Germany, Poland, France, Switzerland, Belgium…if you go to Spain, Italy…one tend to sick to private small airports while big airlines airports have pricy handling and are waste of time: imagine Signature price tag with bureaucracy and no red carpet. This is tough on GA flyers, you can’t fly north forever: you need to go south for sun, food, beach…

 

 

 

 

Edited November 12, 2024 by Ibra

[Sue Bon]

On 11/12/2024 at 3:32 PM, Ibra said:

I went to Cannes (LFMD) and then Elba (LIRJ) then flew back via Pisa & Genova and some cloud surfing over Alps before heading back to flatlands

I flew to Biarritz, then north to Deauville - Normadie, east to Saarbrücken and then home with basically the same view  

Hours and hours for three days of nothing but high fog to the horizon in every direction. It was eerie...

  

 

[Ibra]

2 hours ago, Sue Bon said:

I flew to Biarritz, then north to Deauville - Normadie, east to Saarbrücken and then home with basically the same view

That's a nice trip, I hope you enjoyed some sun in Biarritz ! 

It was sunny in Cannes, while flying north I managed locate that one single valley and mountain near Gap that stops the fog from going south, it did looks like a "fog dam" trying to hold it

As you see the fog we get from Geneva (as you see it's always someone else fault in France: we get weather from UK and Switzerland ) was flowing in Rhone Valley with northerly winds and it was about to spillover toward Cannes 

Edited November 18, 2024 by Ibra

[hubcap]

Lake of the Ozarks on a beautiful fall day for taking Myrtle for a flight.

[PeteMc]

Wish it looked like that up here in the PNW!