Dayton NV day trip

Mike S · #1 01-06-2014, 10:12 AM

Motivated by Rosie's writeup about visiting Paul and Louise in Dayton, I decided Laura and I needed to fly over and say hi to them also.

Laura has been gone to Hawaii for 5 months with her work, and this is the first flight since she has been home-----so we needed to do more than just a simple "go to lunch" flight.

Here we are at 11.5k going over the hills west of Lake Tahoe, 30+mph winds from our 10:00 made for a bit of a bumpy ride.

Not a lot of snow in the sierras, but most of the smaller lakes frozen over.

Made it

Laura had never seen Tsam in person, so she got the grand tour........

Louise had never been in a flying RV 10, so I gave her the quick intro to the plane, and after the house tour, and lunch at a local Mexican restaurant, took her up to fly the 10. Laura got in the back of Paul's RV 8, "Val", and got followed us to shoot some photos.

Louise flew pretty much the whole time, I just did T/O and landing------insurance only covers me---------and she did a great job of it. We had briefed with Paul and Laura before we left, so getting some nice photos was pretty easy-----------I suspect P & L have done this before

Mike S · #2 01-06-2014, 10:13 AM

One photo that I did not get

was the flight home-------the west side of the Sierras in 62 mph tailwind------------our ground speed was 240

, but the leeward turbulence was pretty severe, so I chose to slow the airspeed down a bunch, dont want to overstress the airframe, and I hate the rough ride.

Thanks Paul and Louise, wonderful home you have, and a hangar to die for

Pound them rivets folks.......................

Ironflight · #3 01-06-2014, 12:17 PM

We were glad to have you two come and visit Mike - and it is always fun flying off the wing of a heavy bomber....

Sounds like a great wind on the return flight!

Paul

GLPalinkas · #4 01-07-2014, 07:36 AM

Hey Mike. Welcome to VAF

Just had to throw that at ya!

Great report and photos. Nice to know that other parts of the country have flying weather besides Florida (Yeah, I know these planes fly below 50 * .... I just don't anymore)