Where did you fly today?

[courierguy]

And of course Troy gets extra points for flying it there and back instead of trailering it! Maybe he'll stop by my place and we can see who can fly the slowest.

[courierguy]

Never mind, I forgot Just Aircraft isn't in Idaho anymore.... still want to slow fly with one sometimes.

[SkySteve]

A little Utah flyin'

[youtube]http://8G2djs721Q4[/youtube]

[SixTwoLeemer]

A little Utah flyin'

[youtube]http://8G2djs721Q4[/youtube]

here ya go-

[SkySteve]

SixTwoLeemer, thanks for the help.

[courierguy]

I came back from the Three Forks Montana MAAA fly-in. Saw lots of elk, deer, and cattle (?) in the rolling hills southbound, then across Ennis Lake, followed the Madison River upstream (passed a bald eagle sitting in a tree eyeball to eyeball, waved at him) to the Continental Divide near Henry's Lake, said good morning via wing waggle to a lot of fly fisherman, friendly people. Across Henry's and the Island Park highlands, dropped down from there to the Snake River plain and eventually back into the mountains where I hung a left at the Portnuef Range and came screaming back into my place at 110 mph per and 20' AGL(screaming is relative, OK?). Caught the dog napping but he was still glad to see me. When I go into town later and someone asks what I've been up to, I'll just say "I flew back from Montana", and manage to make it sound boring, wasn't but isn't worth going into it with a non flyer! Another great fly-in, ya'll should mark your calendars for next years, it's always the weekend AFTER Oshkosh. BTW, it was pointed out to me that ALL premium mo-gas in Montana is ethanol free, some kind of law, how cool is that? 10.3 hrs total @ 3.34 GPH, thank you Rotax.

[M6RV6]

I finally made it to Nulato Via 2 months in Marshall, Picked Deb up in Anchorage last Thursday and made it to Nulato, She had never been to the Bering Sea, so jumped over to Unakaleet for some Halibut and Shrimp @ the Igloo!!
Some one tell what this was when it was flying? Looks like it was livable in the past, anyone ever stay there?

Had to stop and visit the Movie Stars

Life in the fast Lane (BCP JACKET)

Nulato river headed west

Unalakleet today

Followed the Iditarod trail back to Kaltag and then on home to Nulato, Great Day!
GT

[GumpAir]

It's funny seeing pavement on that runway...

Gump

[patrol guy]

George - it looks cold??

[Lucas]

That is a C-97 they were used for crago and air refueling I believe

[S-12Flyer]

That is a C-97 they were used for crago and air refueling I believe

http://www.aviation-safety.net/database ... 19890518-0

[M6RV6]

C97, Quite a story behind them!!
John, was about 50 as the sign said!! a little breeze with a little moisture in it.
GUMP, the dam streets are paved also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a place!!
GT

[courierguy]

I added a new office area this morning. When I have no crane work I go play, but need to check in every now and then while staying somewhat in cell range. I call these mountainside and mountaintop areas my field offices So, across and down the valley to find a new place to land so I could check my smartphone for work calls and see whats up on BCP. Found a new site, rock, cactus, and sagebrush but nothing too big, hillside and great view of course, just short enough to be interesting.

Once I got the phone fired up, I saw Herr Swingle had a new vid, and as there was a handy boulder just right for sitting on, I watched it. After vicariously enjoying the flying scenes therein, and still no work calls, I took off and got back to the non vicarious type of flying Watching someone do it, or doing it, both great fun! Note the phone on the video watching boulder.

[robw56]

Your office is much better than mine.

[courierguy]

A new spot, 7600' and 80 degrees. About 5 miles from the last one, landed this morning but it was already warming up. I'm glad I didn't see that FAA vid on density altitude first The plane is parked where I rolled out, short final was a toss up over coming in over the trees all slowed up and slipping like crazy, or coming in from the right all slowed up and then making a 90 degree turn. I chose the 90 degree turn. I had downhill ground to contend with, and level ground, no upslope! Keeping it all slowed up while flying down the downslope on very short final was the key to making the level ground landing, I didn't want to to overshoot and be braking going downhill. Takeoff was cake though.

[soyAnarchisto]

Breakfast in Greeley, CO today - my son the copilot:

[courierguy]

I recently got another solar job I can fly to, about 35 miles away and on a huge (many sections/square miles) 4 th generation family ran ranch in the mountains south of me, lots of places to land of course as it is in hay, the rest grazing ground. I have flown there before in the winter on the skis, lots of mountain slopes to play on. I flew out there for the first time and was able to land at 6300' about 700' from the jobsite. A real cowboy (real as in he rides an ATV mostly, and his cattle dog rides on his ATV like all modern cowdogs now do, I've seen as many as 4 at a time all piled on! Cowboys on horses seem to be a thing of the past ) rode up and we got aquainted.
Flying back, at 7500' my place is on the right in the distance below the 9200' peak pictured in my avatar. It makes it easy to find home!
Later that same day I went up for a little dead stick ridge soaring. A little late in the day, it was pretty marginal, I was only able to get 15 minutes in, with no real gains. At one point some of the locals started messing with me, showing off, crowding me up against the cliffs, and just generally acting like jerks. After they got tired of that they showed me how to do it and shortly specced out at over 12K. No telephoto on the camera to put things in scale

[hotrod150]

Soy, what type of aircraft do you fly? I don't think I've ever seen that power quadrant & heat/parking brake quadrant arrangement before.

[soyAnarchisto]

This is a Diamond DA40-180G. "G" is for Garmin G1000. I was trying to impress my passengers with a $200 breakfast.

Of course I'm shopping for a J3 C90 or a PA-11. My rear seat passenger would not be so impressed if I were to get out and hand prop to take us to breakfast - she was freaked out when I pulled power to land. Baby steps - introducing my wife to flying. It was a good start.

I think my 6-yo son is converted however. This morning he said to me, "Daddy, what if you didn't go to work today. We could go flying." Goddammit - he's right!

My second flight of the day was a nice 2 hour glider run. My pics sucked because of a weird inversion all over the front range creating lots of haze - but we made it up to 12,8 near longs peak. My head is still spinning from all the steep turns.

[UtahMaule]

Montana. Nice place to visit!!