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Old 04-14-2017, 09:09 PM
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We are on the ground, safe at Terry County (BFE) airport in Texas and are going to 'slep' it right here at the FBO.... 5.2 hours on the hobbs with a bit of night flying and exciting night landing here We flew to SJN at 9.5K then up to 11.5K from SJN to BFE, not tooooo bumpy... LOTS of convective activity in the Amarillo area which made for a nice seat to view the lighting show!!! I'll get more pictures up tomorrow as I'm beat....And Scoot is already sleeping, HAH!!!!! I can't WAIT to have a cookie from Cookie!!!!

Our plan is to fuel somewhere in Louisiana, maybe Downtown Shreveport (DTN) then to Foley (5R4), AL so I can get me some food at Lamberts!!!!! I'd like to call it lunch but it may be a later lunch... early dinner since we are still here in Texas where EVERYTHING IS BIG!!! May try to meet up with Sharkbait and Chappy who are in OK tonight...

Thanks so much for following along and keep poundin' them rivets!!! Rosie & Tuppergal



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Old 04-15-2017, 05:53 AM
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Old 04-15-2017, 06:33 AM
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... and here they are on the move Scoot with Cookie...

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Old 04-15-2017, 06:58 AM
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I see your F.P. is set to go through St. Croix. This is one of my most liked spots in the islands. The airport there is on the west end of the island but the best place to go is on the east end away from the crowds. It has been some time now that I have not been there. Can you let us know haw St. Croix is doing from your stop over there and if you get a chance over on the east side of the island is Christion-Sted and a great cove where the old Grummand Goose used to fly in to. Good luck and am looking forward to you articles here. Maybe next year for me, but I would have to stay in St. Croix. and wait for you guys on the flip side. Yours, R.E.A. III #80888
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Old 04-15-2017, 11:48 AM
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I see your F.P. is set to go through St. Croix. This is one of my most liked spots in the islands. The airport there is on the west end of the island but the best place to go is on the east end away from the crowds. It has been some time now that I have not been there. Can you let us know haw St. Croix is doing from your stop over there and if you get a chance over on the east side of the island is Christion-Sted and a great cove where the old Grummand Goose used to fly in to. Good luck and am looking forward to you articles here. Maybe next year for me, but I would have to stay in St. Croix. and wait for you guys on the flip side. Yours, R.E.A. III #80888
Yes Robert, Absolutely!!!! Safe on the ground here at Jacksonville (JSO), TX for fuel, checking WX and... bathroom stop We departed BFE and flew about 1100 AGL for about an hour until we could safely get VFR on top (tops at 5K) and cruised at 7.5K here to JSO. Departing now for Foley (5R4), AL. From Foley, we'll fly to Gainesville (GNV), FL to meet up with Scoot & Cookie and stay the night

If anyone would like to join us for late lunch, early dinner TODAY at Lamberts, text me to 661.433.6056 and I will wait for you if you are not there already. I'm guessing I will be there around 1530-ish CDT and will look for texts, leaving the airport NLT 1600.

Thanks for following along!!! Rosie & Tuppergal
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Old 04-15-2017, 03:31 PM
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We landed here at Foley (5R4) AL just after 1600 and are waiting for the van to Lamberts Cafe One more 2-hour flight to Gainesville (GNV) FL for the night after dinner, meeting up with Scoot & Cookie I will get pictures up tonight!!! Rosie & Tuppergal
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Old 04-15-2017, 05:38 PM
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Circle at 500 feet or less. Imagine having a cold one under the grass hut on the smallest island in the Caribbean! You forgot to drop down when you flew by last time, don't forget again!
12degrees32.79minutes North/61degrees23.71minutesWest
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Old 04-15-2017, 07:33 PM
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Boy, I woke up at 4:30am and just couldn't sleep any longer. By 5am I sent Taco a text "Taco! Wake up! It is time to go." To which he immediately responded "I'm up, I'm up! What time is wheels up." Tanya and I were just sitting around looking at each other waiting for the sun to come up. We were socked in as expected with OVC 400-700 but we had long ago solved that problem, Twice.

We had to taxi up and down the runway and into the grass a bit "Vroom, Vroom!!!" to scare herds of early morning deer off. Picked up our clearance on the ground with Austin approach. We love the bluetooth cell coupled into the audio panel. That is a game changer. However, Tanya has yet to be able to have a telephone conversation with a headset on and audio coming through the "radio" without depressing the transmit button when she talks! It is funny, I have to whack her hand each time, and both headsets are Hot, so I can't say anything.

"090 on the heading, climb maintain 3000, expect niner thousand in 10..." And we're off. We popped out the top at around 2500' and were treated to a beautiful sunrise on top with the sun directly in our face for the next few hundred miles. All the while, Rosie was sitting on the ground in west Texas looking at similar weather... From the ground. We soon found Taco on freq out of Dallas and talked plenty of smack about how Rosie could do nothing but go to breakfast.



Hundreds of miles through Texas looked like this. We didn't start to see the ground until we got to Louisana.


So, here we are, fat dumb and happy on top just watching the miles click away, tracking nearest, loading nearest plates, all that stuff that you do so you're ready to pounce. That still wasn't enough to keep me entertained. The only music we listen to is the sweet purr of the fan turning up front. I did what any self respecting RV pilot would do. Find some more buttons to push, fiddle with some knobs, look at some more data or something, when I came across this EGT graph (this is a sloppy carb O320). Hmm, I wonder why #3 and #4 graphs are so noisy? Is that what a failing egt probe looks like? But what really peaked my interest with the perfectly timed burp of all egt every 60 seconds... What could that be? As I pondered the riddle...


I asked the resident Ham radio operator to please turn off her APRS radio. Yep that is it. With the aprs off, no egt data burp, with it on, 60sec egt data purp. "Ok, you can turn the aprs back on." That was fun.

Ok, what next. I guess Tanya wanted in on some action, so as we passed the timezone change, she decided to change the time on the chronometer. I don't know what buttons she pushed, but she bricked it! I don't care what button you push, it gives you nuttin' but 8s with one flashing. "Dude, that is annoying. Stop the flashing." "But there is no off switch for this thing." sad Tanya


Then she came up with a plan. Fixed!


We stopped in Atlanta and had lunch with friends on the field with no major fanfare. When we got into Florida, it was clear that the smoke from fires was going to be a bit of an issue. It stretched for at least 100 mi and was visible on radar. It's base was about 6k' and top at about 11k'. We were at 9.5 vfr and didn't want to go down into the bumps, so we kindly went around.




Safe in Gainsville FL, hopped the Holiday Inn shuttle to the hotel and set off on foot to downtown for a great dinner (and beer!) at Harry's. Rosie just touched down and should be here shortly along with Sharkbait. Breakfast at Spruce Creek tomorrow, aiming for 9am currently.
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Old 04-15-2017, 08:19 PM
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Rosie & Tuppergal are safe in Gainesville (GNV), FL landing on Saturday night at ~2115 local time (about an hour of night flight)...again:



We saw Scoot and Cookie's RV-9A tied down on the ramp. They departed Texas IFR this morning while we waited in Texas for the WX to clear

Richard "Chappy" Chapman & Andrew "Sharkbait" Brandt took off from Lake Tahoe (California) about 2 hours in front of us yesterday... and they landed here in Gainesville about 15 minutes after we did... we talked on the air-to-air frequency... blind calls... "Sharkbait, it's Rosie.. you out there?" Finally found them on frequency!!!



We are now here at the hotel, and I just called the Card's room...time is 2224... and they are asleep! HAH!!!! Looks like we landed at about the same time we did last night!?!?!

We'll see the Cards in the morning then flying over to Spruce Creek (7FL6) with them (2-ship) for Easter Breakfast then to Homestead. Sharkbait and Chappy are sleeping in and we'll see them later on at Homestead (X51).

Here is the SPOT track for yesterday and today... Gotta' love flying these RVs!!!



Here are the flying Hobbs Time stats from my...yes... ancient Garmin 496... 12.7 hours from SoCal to Florida



Here are the pics I promised you from yesterday AND today's flying....
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Old 04-15-2017, 08:19 PM
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Our Neighbor, Bill Jennings was there to see us off from Rosamond, with takeoff at ~1315, Friday, April 14th.



Leaving Rosamond and flying west, you've seen this before... lots of brown desert...



Here's the Colorado River, about an hour from home, Crossing just over the Needles area, looking north:





We see this out in the Bagdad (AZ) area but are never quite sure what we are seeing...



Yes, you can find some windmills in AZ...



2.8 hours from Rosamond (L00) has us on left base to final, RWY 21 at SJN... winds 230/19 gusting 25kts...


Gary Liston is the airport manager and we've seen him every year since 2004... I always bring him LOGO wear from work... and he fills us up. Then Tuppergal assumes the position... let's go!



New Mexico has some nice terrain features:



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