… getting this weekend’s thread started. Hope you’re having a wonderful one.
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WDYDWYRTW (1 / 11-12 / 2025)?
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Flew out to Baker (NV) to spend the weekend doing cave restoration and clean-up at Great Basin National Park. Louise drove, as she is staying longer and needed to haul food to feed the workers, and I flew in to the Baker Ranch (friends of ours - PPR) airstrip that we use for trips out there. This time of year, the cattle are in teh ranch HQ area, so they clear a spot in the hangar for us - cattle apparently love to scratch themselves on airplanes if the planes are tied down outside!
Hopping from ranch strip to ranch strip to get things done out west….I have become Sky King!
Hopping from ranch strip to ranch strip to get things done out west….I have become Sky King!
Returned Saturday from biz trip up at Red Bluff area (KRBL airport). Another successful commercial solar fixer-upper project done. Well, those headwinds coming up paid well on the return to Gnoss (KDVO). 200 kts level, but on the descent (@ 500 ft/min), the speed got up to 220+ kts (GS)! Oh boy, slowed that down before VNE. Timed my arrival just right as there was an excellent breakfast and speaker at the Gnoss Field community association.
Love that part of the country. You always have such great photos! Which camera do you use?
PilotjohnS
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This was the hardest part for me, the bottom part seemed to be underbent by a little bit and wasnt a perfect fit to bulkheads. I took the time to make sure the fit was perfect by bending the sides just a a lttle more and i glad i did. That piece is thick.
We fitted and test assembled (per the vans instructions), then disassembled and primed. Now we get to put permanently put them together again
It got all the way up to 28 F today here in Northwest Pennsylvania. Warmest weather in weeks. And better yet, the ceiling lifted to 1500 broken, a great improvement on the 800 overcast we’ve had day after day after day. Living downwind of the Great Lakes, this is about as good as it gets, so my son Josh and I ran out to the airport, shoveled the apron, and pulled 4JC out of the hangar. Josh wanted to get in some airwork and pattern work. The taxiway and runway was covered with snow and ice, making for a good learning opportunity (don’t even think about using those brakes). Turns on a point, slips, pattern work, go-arounds, Josh got a good workout.
First Flight! A bit bumpy but I just couldn’t pass up the clear air. N474ML took to the air today! Flew great! I’ve got a few items to look over tomorrow. Check the smile!
