Copperstate fly in

[Philippe CORDIER]

Just coming back to France from Copperstate fly in Arizona.
I have been there for a few days to be at this very nice event, see some Van's aircrafts, meet people and flying for a few hours in the desert in a rental C172 from Chandler.

You can see all my pictures here :
http://picasaweb.google.fr/philippe.cordier9/ArizonaCopperstateFlyInOct10

Friendly, Philippe from France.
http://philipperv9a.typepad.fr

 

[Dmadd]

Very nice job!

 

[gbrasch]

Nice, thanks for sharing. Next time let us know your coming in advance and us locals will buy you some good Mexican food! Glenn

 

[Randy Erwin]

Beautiful photography!!

 

[Agent Cooper]

Love all the pix cannot wait to come and fly in the States.

 

[N402RH]

Oregon to Copperstate IFR

Leaving Portland Oregon just before the TFR for the President begins and headed for Carson City NV

Carson City to Kingman, AZ - Weather between the two.

IMC before Las Vegas and ATC decides to vector me "for weather" the new heading looks worse on my XM weather and I ask them to double check. ATC then tells me that they show it will be better, it ended up being just like my XM weather showed...

Over Las Vegas at 17,000ft and back in the clear.

164Kts TAS at 17,000ft Once again I prove that the heat in the RV-10 works great!

Next stop Kingman Az to visit one of our dealers and see a lot of parked airliners.

Yes that is a 12" tile in the picture and this was walking down the hall in the office. Apparently this time of year the critters like to move inside.

Almost to Copperstate...

The weather in Arizona this time of year is awesome.

Rob Hickman
N402RH RV-10

 

[N402RH]

Copperstate to Portland

The weather back home in Oregon was forecast to get really bad with low freezing levels and very high winds on Sunday through Tuesday so I decide to leave at 12 on Saturday and get back home before the bad weather arrived. The weather started to get bad just north of Las Vegas and after stopping in Reno for fuel and checking the weather between Reno and Portland I decide to spend the night. The next morning I awoke to wind gusts of 45kts and a forecast for them to increase to 75kts at Reno, low freezing levels and rain. I decide to give up and fly home on Southwest Airlines, the winds on the flight home were 180kts with a 100kts head wind component. On Wednesday the weather decided to cooperate and I got on a 6:00am flight to Reno and arrived just as the sun was rising.

It was a clear morning with a temperature of 29 degrees when I arrived to find the plane covered in frost.

Crater Lake

I left home on Wednesday morning at 4:30am to catch the 6:00am flight to Reno and landed back home in the RV-10 at 11:00am

Rob Hickman
N402RH RV-10

 

[BSwayze]

Looks like XM weather is better than ever. I love reading about your travels, and the great pictures, Rob. Thanks for posting them! Please keep them coming!

 

[Hawkeye7A]

Beautiful slide show!

Especially #48 and #88. (My Bird!) It was a better than average show IMHO. A much better variety than usual. And as Glenn says, give us a heads up next time for some great Mex grub!

 

[az_gila]

I like picture number -

Especially #48 and #88. (My Bird!) It was a better than average show IMHO. A much better variety than usual. And as Glenn says, give us a heads up next time for some great Mex grub!

- # 117 in the original set, and I even took a similar one myself from the other side...

It was the most polished P-51 I have seen.

UPDATE - the above pic really needs a shot of the entire plane...