It’s Todays Flight for 2025

[dkkim73]

7 hours ago, Sue Bon said:

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).

I know there's some parallax involved but still that looks so short! Was there an arresting cable?

[Sue Bon]

2 hours ago, dkkim73 said:

I know there's some parallax involved but still that looks so short! Was there an arresting cable?

It's sooooo short! And as it says on the approach chart, "markedly hump-backed."

[kortopates]

Captain Sue and her nice J model at Lands End before departing for St Mary’s
It’s been a real adventure flying with her here!


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[0TreeLemur]

On 7/10/2025 at 2:15 PM, Sue Bon said:

landing on RWY 14 which is 695 meters long (2280 feet).

 

Somehow, runways on islands always seem to look like postage stamps!  Have fun!

[Ibra]

On 7/10/2025 at 9:15 PM, Sue Bon said:

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.

You know it's short (and hot) when the Mooney M20J starts cursing "*&&&#!" with stall warner on approche and liftoff  "teet, teet...", this reminds me of American film broadcasted on British TV 

Nice pictures of Scilies, it was a lovely week for flying in UK !

Edited July 14 by Ibra

[0TreeLemur]

Islands in the sky.  Photo taken from my Mooney somewhere over the U.S.

[Hank]

9 minutes ago, 0TreeLemur said:

Islands in the sky.  Photo taken from my Mooney somewhere over the U.S.

That's quite the haze layer just below you! 

[dkkim73]

No dramatic scenery today (the Sapphires are low-ish mountains), but Philipsburg MT (U05) is a fun little destination. Wanted to scout it for taking people on a day trip, and exercise the plane after a hiatus from my commute.

3599' runway with cracks and some asphalt spalling (good soft-field technique practice). 

Old-school country airport with just a bunch of hangars and a courtesy car with "character".  Very pleasant. Small downtown with tourist things to do, big candy store, whiskey bar if you're going to stay overnight...

 

[Fly Boomer]

10 hours ago, dkkim73 said:

whiskey bar if you're going to stay overnight...

Poor airplane...looks lonesome.

[dkkim73]

On 7/21/2025 at 7:44 AM, Fly Boomer said:

Poor airplane...looks lonesome.

I've thought that from time to time. 

Here's the other end of the spectrum from the MPPP in early June: 

 

[Ragsf15e]

Mt Ranier is still impressive from 50 miles away!  Nice tailwind on the way home from the awesome Evergreen Aviation Museum (and water park) in Mcminnville.  You can see the Spruce Goose, an F-4 with 2 kills, and an SR71 and then go down some good water slides that exit from a real 747 on the roof!

[Skates97]

I should really start putting up pictures of my flights here... Yesterday checked a couple more SoCal airports off the list. Fallbrook L18 with it's 2,150' runway and Oceanside KOKB with it's "long" 2,172' runway. 

[M20F]

Never have truer words been written.  
 
Edit:  I have no idea why it is dropping the resolution it’s only a 3.2MB pic
 

 

[dkkim73]

22 hours ago, M20F said:

Never have truer words been written.  
 
Edit:  I have no idea why it is dropping the resolution it’s only a 3.2MB pic
 

 

Is that a NH guard plane? That would make sense. Guessing that's one of the 767 based tankers.  

[M20F]

5 hours ago, dkkim73 said:

Is that a NH guard plane? That would make sense. Guessing that's one of the 767 based tankers.  

It is

[Ragsf15e]

Bunch of Washington based Mooneys got together for lunch at Yakima yesterday.  5 of us showed up and we parked next to a resident Mooney to make it 6!  Good food at Reno’s by the Runway, but it’s mighty warm in Yakima this time of year and there’s not much indoor seating!