Captain Stu, my fellow aviation adventurer, from my local field, wrote an article for the monthly newsletter entitled, ?Will fly for food?. He commented on most of the $100 hamburger joints in and around Southern Alberta. These are places that most of you will have no knowledge of, but that?s not the point of this little narrative.
At the end of his article he mentioned a few other smaller rural Alberta towns that looked to be potentials. They are located a little further away from Calgary, but definitely within RV distance.
This unusually warm December was all the goading I needed to plan a mission. Thus ?Will fly for food Part 2? was born.
It was to be a 532 nm round trip, taking me to Tofield, Vermilion and Bow Island. About three and a half hours flying and an easy tank of gas in the -7. These towns are located Northeast of Edmonton.
That was the plan at least. Let?s see how I did?
Now, laziness being one of the chief motivators in my life, I hoped to exert as little physical effort on this adventure as possible. To achieve this I commandeered my son?s electric race bike and stuffed it in the RV. I removed the passenger seat and it fit in the plane quite snugly.
Once landed, the plan was to ride into each town, check out the local food establishments and cruise back to the airport in style, all without breaking a sweat. Woohoo!. That?s how I roll!
So out to the field to preheat the Lycosauraus
Forget using effort to drag the RV out Do it the easssssy way.
Bike tucked away and the sun?s arising. Time to launch. Now, one second here. I took off about 20 minutes after this pict was taken so there was plenty of legal VFR daylight. Don?t go calling the Feds on me, ok
Tofield was first. Now, I?ve lived in Alberta most of my 44 years and I?d never even heard of this place. Prior to landing I circled the airport and town a couple of times to see exactly where I was to go once off the airport. The winds were gusting pretty strongly and I needed full left boot on approach.
At the end of his article he mentioned a few other smaller rural Alberta towns that looked to be potentials. They are located a little further away from Calgary, but definitely within RV distance.
This unusually warm December was all the goading I needed to plan a mission. Thus ?Will fly for food Part 2? was born.
It was to be a 532 nm round trip, taking me to Tofield, Vermilion and Bow Island. About three and a half hours flying and an easy tank of gas in the -7. These towns are located Northeast of Edmonton.
That was the plan at least. Let?s see how I did?
Now, laziness being one of the chief motivators in my life, I hoped to exert as little physical effort on this adventure as possible. To achieve this I commandeered my son?s electric race bike and stuffed it in the RV. I removed the passenger seat and it fit in the plane quite snugly.
Once landed, the plan was to ride into each town, check out the local food establishments and cruise back to the airport in style, all without breaking a sweat. Woohoo!. That?s how I roll!
So out to the field to preheat the Lycosauraus
Forget using effort to drag the RV out Do it the easssssy way.
Bike tucked away and the sun?s arising. Time to launch. Now, one second here. I took off about 20 minutes after this pict was taken so there was plenty of legal VFR daylight. Don?t go calling the Feds on me, ok
Tofield was first. Now, I?ve lived in Alberta most of my 44 years and I?d never even heard of this place. Prior to landing I circled the airport and town a couple of times to see exactly where I was to go once off the airport. The winds were gusting pretty strongly and I needed full left boot on approach.