It’s Todays Flight for 2025

[N201MKTurbo]

I sold my Cessna to a guy named Carl. He is building time for a flying job. He was out of control last night.

[Skates97]

On 3/26/2025 at 6:04 PM, wombat said:

Just got my annual finished.    Flew down to Santa Maria to Artcraft Paint to have them take a look at the plane.    Chances are pretty good I'll be taking it to them this fall for a full repaint and interior. 

They painted my plane, very happy with it!

[Hank]

3 hours ago, N201MKTurbo said:

I sold my Cessna to a guy named Carl. He is building time for a flying job. He was out of control last night.

That would be very impressive if his flight plan was KCHD-->A39.

[wombat]

Some recent flying related pictures.

My Mooney with a Blackfly from https://pivotal.aero down at Byron (C83)

San Francisco from the air on a beautiful day

Garmin Math:    200 KTAS + 12 KT tailwind == 215 KT groundspeed....   It was a worse discrepancy on a different flight but I hadn't thought to take a picture.

In my home area the Arrowleafs are blooming.   It doesn't show up as well in the picture as it does in real life, but the hills are really pretty right now.

[dkkim73]

On 4/15/2025 at 9:27 AM, N201MKTurbo said:

I sold my Cessna to a guy named Carl. He is building time for a flying job. He was out of control last night.

It's people like this that make me realize how much I haven't done. 

[N201MKTurbo]

1 hour ago, dkkim73 said:

It's people like this that make me realize how much I haven't done. 

So, apparently you can write a freehand notation on the chart with ForeFlight that will track any chart motion or scaling. So you can just write on ForeFlight and then just fly the lines. Much easier than the old days when you had to make a flight plan and fly it precisely.

I just tried the pen icon on the main screen. It does exactly what is needed. Now all I need is good penmanship.

[Ragsf15e]

Spokane to Carson City for a visit with the parents/grandparents.  15,000’ most of the way at 175ktas and 10.4gph.  Awesome airplanes!

IFR and had to stay low for icing across Washington, but Real pretty descending across Reno near Pyramid Lake and Blackrock “airport”.

 

[bonal]

Milk run to WLW yesterday and this bad boy landed a few minutes after us. 

[MB65E]

8 hours ago, bonal said:

Milk run to WLW yesterday and this bad boy landed a few minutes after us. 

Really nice owner named Andy.

Met him at SMO a few weeks ago. 
-Matt

[dkkim73]

 

Commute to work after a great family graduation event and ahead of some inbound storms to western MT...  

[Fly Boomer]

25 minutes ago, dkkim73 said:

Commute to work after a great family graduation event and ahead of some inbound storms to western MT...  

Nice to be able to go as high as you need to go.

[dkkim73]

3 hours ago, Fly Boomer said:

Nice to be able to go as high as you need to go.

Absolutely! Huge blessing of the turbos. That was only 14k, but 17k-190/210 on way back as helpful. 

The terrain is fascinating, but sometimes it follows me up ...

[Hank]

On 5/26/2025 at 8:24 PM, dkkim73 said:

The terrain is fascinating, but sometimes it follows me up ...

Sometimes??? When I went to Cody, terrain above me was constant, until well east of my homeward fuel stop in Gillette . . .

Then again, I was in my C with my wife's baggage and a couple bags from my friends in a 172.

[hubcap]

Recent trip back to KC from Texas. You can see the cold front very clearly in the center picture.

[Ibra]

Flew to Munich with family, to see some German friends and watch UEFA football cup: Paris PSG did win football final, ahem soccer final not NFL 

We also visited few museums (Schleißheim, Dutches, BMW), lot of engines & propellers enough to keep me and kids busy and wife bored. The return flight Munich-Paris was a long way with 30kts headwinds and lot of weather avoidance, however, the Mooney always delivers back home, this time the Europe football cup is back home !

 

Edited June 2 by Ibra

[Hank]

Flying was nice today, very smooth above ~2000msl. Visibility wasn't so hot, winds are blowing from ESE bringing humid Atlantic air, with afternoon thunderstorms supposed to begin building tomorrow.

ASOS was calling 7 miles visibility, but on the ground I didn't notice anything. 

But I could identify the runway from 9 miles out, not just the field but the actual asphalt. (Not shown in this photo taken on the way out).

[0TreeLemur]

Flying south this evening home after visiting the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.  Highly recommend it!

[Pinecone]

Last Friday 0W3 - KBHB.  Love looking down at the clouds from 17,000.

 

[Fly Boomer]

1 minute ago, Pinecone said:

Love looking down at the clouds from 17,000.

 

Smooth and cool.

[Pinecone]

11 hours ago, Fly Boomer said:

Smooth and cool.

Especially coming home on Monday.  Nothing like descent into 101 temps

[N201MKTurbo]

If you have been cyber stalking me on FlightAware, you know I haven't been flying much lately. Between my new shoulder and way too many periodic inspections and installing a new audio panel, me and the plane have been down for a while. So I decided to take a long cross country. Sorry, no pictures. The wife and I decided to fly to a Savannah GA. 
 

I got IFR current, the plane is IFR current and all my databases are up to date. We flew all the legs out there VFR so we could listen to an audio book. I should have flown the last leg IFR but I didn’t. 
 

We decided to fly the first day to Hot Springs AR. We got the last hotel room available in KHOT.  We could have stayed in the fanciest suit in a 4 star hotel for what we paid for that POS room. The whole town turned out for the fireworks display. It was refreshing to see small town America in action. We got a seat on the patio at a Mexican restaurant near our hotel. We ordered a beer, chips and salsa and had a great view of the fireworks. 
 

Both legs getting to KHOT were flown at 13500. We were getting about a 15 KT Tailwind the whole way, so we were scooting along pretty good. 
 

The next morning we decided to do two legs to get to get to Savannah. We could have done it in one, but we don’t like to fly that long any more. We flew to Walker Co airport in Jasper AL at elevendy five and got lunch at the Pie Factory. It was great pizza. The crew car is a brand new Jeep Renegade, which was kind of fun. The leg to Savannah was a little more dicey. I tried to do 11500 , but the clouds kept rising and they were getting thicker. I didn’t want to get stuck on top and have to get a pop up IFR, so I just went under. It was more scenic that way anyway. And besides, there were thunderstorms ahead and I would much prefer to be VFR around thunderstorms than IFR, you have a lot more options. I had to deviate around a couple including a big one about 40 miles west of KSAV. On final there was a big one approaching from the north. The rain shaft was already covering the north half of runway 01 and the tower when I landed on 10. It was a bit sporty. After I landed the tower asked for a PIREP. They sounded very concerned. I told them it was moderate. When we got to Sheltair, it was pouring. They were nice enough to come out with umbrella's. 
 

Anyway, we are here enjoying the area. I will write another post on the way back. I may even take some pictures.

[Hank]

Glad you made it alright. Welcome to the Deep South, real heat and humidity, and the too-frequent pop up thunderstorms. 

Enjoy your visit, and leave early like in the desert, which will avoid these storms but not fronts moving through. 

[N201MKTurbo]

I reached a milestone on this trip!

 

[natdm]

After the plane being down for 7 months, I'm glad to be able to post some flying pictures.

Wife and I flew from AZ -> MN, and then the plane immediately went in for annual. Two days after annual, after some test flights, we went from MN -> MT, spent the night and then flew in to Canada. Stayed a night in Fort Nelson, and then off to Whitehorse, filed a flight plan/called customs, and then to Anchorage, AK, to visit some friends for a few weeks. It's a different life here, and I love it.

We flew a lot of the trip up high (10,000), but I got tired of overflying everything gorgeous and decided to stick to the Alaskan Highway route and fly a bit lower. On the last leg, in Alaska, we descended from 14,500 to 6,500 to get some scenic views on the way in to Alaska. Also passed Trent Palmer and his entourage somewhere in Canada, opposite directions and a few hundred miles of separation. 

I'd love to upload high-res pictures but I guess that feature is broken for me today, so they're compressed from another source online, then uploaded via url here.

Spotting mountains poking out at 14,500.

My first glacier sighting.. There will be more.

Parked in the backyard. 

[Sue Bon]

Hi all,

I've gone back to lurking these past few months due to a problem with losing GPS signal since the annual in January, which seriously cramped my flying (and my general mood). But I'm happy to say that the cause of the problem has been identified and is no longer an issue

So now I'm off on an adventure with the legend himself, @kortopates... I'm so very stoked! 

Yesterday we flew via Lyon, France to Brugges, Belgium. Today we made the trek across the English Channel and southern England (one photo shows the white cliffs of Dover) to St. Mary's Scilly island with a fuel stop at Land's End. The guy in St. Mary's tower let us do a tour of the Scilly islands before landing on RWY 14 which is 695 meters long (2280 feet). Tonight we will decide where to go next. So awesome!!