Where did you fly today?

[FoxDB]

Courier Guy,
Sounds like your solar job is close to Malad. Stop by next time your around.
Dave

[coloradokevbot]

This time of year many of the local lakes are very dry, so I decided to go have some fun!

[M6RV6]

Took Deb to Fairbanks last night, had a nice dinner on the deck at Pikes Landing, visited with an old friend, The fellow who I brought the pacer up for last year.
Headed back down the river this AM, thought I would share a couple of pix, nothing great, but was listening to good tunes and enjoying the morning, 2 hour flight and was in Nulato by 7:45
Playin with the dew

Some more rainbows

Down river

Up river

Nulato Carrier Deck

GT

[whee]

Flew up to Grand Coulee to check out the area and a job. The airport there is really nice. Cool airplane camping area right on Banks Lake.


Had a TFR and some smoke to deal with.


Anyone know that this strip is?


Wish I was the one sleeping. Spent 10.5 hrs in the plane.

[dirtstrip]

[quote="whee"]

Had a TFR and some smoke to deal with.


I didn't know TFR's could make that much smoke. Campaign related?

Great photos and good luck in the job hunt.

[RanchPilot]

Snuck up to Sheridan, WY in the Bush Hawk a few weeks ago for a drift fishing trip on the Bighorn in Montana. My idea of "fly" fishing!

Wind River range on the way up:






Caught some nice fish. This guy went 17" and 3 pounds.




Smoky flight home due to big fires.








Life is good.

[A1Skinner]

Went out and did some gravel bars and sandbar landings on the river right close to where I live. Made a video. First time posting a video, so hopefully I can get it right, otherwise Im sure someone will help me, generous flying community of folks we are and all.

[A1Skinner]

Went out and did some gravel bars and sandbar landings on the river right close to where I live. Made a video. First time posting a video, so hopefully I can get it right, otherwise Im sure someone will help me, generous flying community of folks we are and all.
[youtube]XPltcq2ZxeM&feature=plcp[/youtube]

[A1Skinner]

I guess I'll need help.

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[whee]

[A1Skinner]

Thanks whee.

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[fern_hopper]

Finished my checkout in the Pawnee and spent an enjoyable few hours towing gliders out at North Plains with WVSC. First aircraft I have ever needed to put the seat forward.

[Troy Hamon]

Been a busy week. Flew PAKN-PAIL-PATK-PAIN, then PAIN-PAWS-PAKN, then PAKN-PAHO, then PAHO-PAMR, then PAMR-PAKN. That's more flying than I usually get to do, and it isn't over yet...more to come over the next few days. Airplane is flying great, so me and the bird are having fun.

[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

I flew back out to my solar job again, (east of Malad a fair bit Dave, almost Wyoming)the second time, and got to know the "real cowboy" a bit better. He, along with about 5 cattle dogs, bunk out at the ranch cabin from May to November, real cowboy stuff for sure, at least to this Michigan suburb raised pilot! But at one point he casually mentioned to the boss man that yes, he had got the latest email, and had downloaded the new grazing area info into his GPS This area is way the hell out there, but due to a fortuitous gap in the mountains, his laptop works just fine! That's progress I guess... the boss man made a witty comment: in referring to the hot dry summer, "at least we local ranchers won't be fighting over water this year, there isn't any". Wasn't kidding either.

[courierguy]

I made my last, and third, flight out to the same solar water pumping job, we wrapped it all up and I am outa there. Then the rancher tells me he just heard back from the well driller and the second well is now drilled and producing, and as soon as he gets a line on a storage tank he wants another system from me. I immediately tell him that I was "work free" the rest of the day, and why don't I just zip over and through the mountains to Brigham City, Utah, where there is a large rotational molding plastics business, that makes a lot of tanks. This offer by me caught the rancher by surprise though he should know better by now.... FREE, NO CHARGE I told him, and took off for the 60 mile flight, landing a few new mt top sites along the way. An hour later I reported back to him with the prices and current inventory of the desired tank size, along with pictures.

What an unselfish generous person I am, taking time out of my busy day just in an effort to be helpful to my fellow man

[pokette]

Just around the local area with my Daughter, her friend Melisa, and some locals!!

[Glidergeek]

Just around the local area with my Daughter, her friend Melisa, and some locals!!

Nice from parkas to shorts

[Glidergeek]

I made my last, and third, flight out to the same solar water pumping job, we wrapped it all up and I am outa there. Then the rancher tells me he just heard back from the well driller and the second well is now drilled and producing, and as soon as he gets a line on a storage tank he wants another system from me. I immediately tell him that I was "work free" the rest of the day, and why don't I just zip over and through the mountains to Brigham City, Utah, where there is a large rotational molding plastics business, that makes a lot of tanks. This offer by me caught the rancher by surprise though he should know better by now.... FREE, NO CHARGE I told him, and took off for the 60 mile flight, landing a few new mt top sites along the way. An hour later I reported back to him with the prices and current inventory of the desired tank size, along with pictures.

What an unselfish generous person I am, taking time out of my busy day just in an effort to be helpful to my fellow man

Remember you didn't build that business somebody gave it to you and that farmer

[DBI]

Flew over the Southern Virginia coal country today. Landed here at Lonesome Pine, really beautiful, but I thought I heard banjo's ....Naw, must have been my imagination.

[patrol guy]

DBI - Did you notice if there was anyplace to eat near there??