What did you do with your RV this Thanksgiving weekend (2023)?

[DeltaRomeo]

...getting it started.

I gave (4) RV rides to visiting relatives. <g>.

v/r,dr

 

[Kyle Boatright]

Flew to Texas (KSLR) last Saturday. Back to Atlanta on Friday. Spent time with the outlaws while we were there.

The surprise was that it took longer to fly the eastbound leg (back home) than the westbound leg. Fickle winds...

 

[SPX]

Provided one RV ride ...

Connected with a VAF'er and agreed to house their RV-4 in my hangar on a permanent basis.

Overall, a great day.

 

[Biggiesauls]

Flew to Mt Pleasant, Tx and visited the Mid America Flight Museum. I think I know my next build…

 

[Redbud40]

Caught the ultimate RV Grin!!!

 

[RV8iator]

Birthday and Turkeyday

Flew our 8 from Saint Simons Island to Austin to celebrate thanksgiving with family and friends.
Today went to great niece and nephews high school football playoff game.
Tuesday we’ll gather once again to celebrate my mom’s 105th Birthday
Wednesday will head back home.
I love my magic carpet.

 

[Jonnyb]

Built the seat ribs

 

[erich weaver]

Showed a friend what heaven is like

 

[erich weaver]

…and what I am thankful for

 

[RV8Squaz]

I watched my son, Max take a friend flying. Max started flying in the back seat of the RV fifteen years ago when he couldn’t even see over the canopy rails.

 

[planenutz]

I watched my son, Max take a friend flying. Max started flying in the back seat of the RV fifteen years ago when he couldn’t even see over the canopy rails.

That's outstanding and you must be very proud of your son. I can't wait to see my daughter progress to the RV-6 once she has a few more hours under her belt. But the look of Max's friend in the back made me laugh! Priceless!

 

[ronrapp]

Took my Favorite Copilot out for a flight after our Santa Ana wind-induced postponement earlier in the week.

First stop, seeing the hangar complex and aircraft I fly at work. He got to try out the left seat on the G600 and seemed to really enjoy it. I mean, who wouldn't, right?

Then we proceeded up the California coastline to San Luis Obispo, where we took his grandmother out to lunch for her birthday.

He really loved the FBO up there, ACI Jet. Not only is the new facility beautiful, but it has comfortable swiveling seats upstairs from which you can watch the traffic come and go. And they have a huge glass wall so you can see what's in their hangar. And last but not least, the front desk folks at ACI gave him a stuffed bear that they call "Tarmac Teddy". I guess Snoopy handles the flying, and Tarmac Teddy will be doing ground ops...?

Lovely weather, too. The winds blew out all the particulates in the air, so we could see for 50 miles in every direction. The night flight back to AJO was spectacular. Even had a tailwind both ways. That *never* happens...

Best. Day. Ever.

--Ron

 

[Richard Connell]

A week late.. but that’s how we roll in the southern hemisphere
First go at turning the RV10 into a truck.
Rear seats out and a few bikes in the back for a 3day bike race down south.
800NM out and back without refueling thanks to the ER tanks.
Lazy 214GS on the way home too. Hard to complain about that.

 

[jmbrwn]

Flew down to KLCQ (Lake City, FL) to pick up Grandma & Grandpa and bring to Atlanta for Thanksgiving.
1.5 hr flight instead of 5+hr drive. Love this plane!!!

 

[RV8Squaz]

That's outstanding and you must be very proud of your son. I can't wait to see my daughter progress to the RV-6 once she has a few more hours under her belt. But the look of Max's friend in the back made me laugh! Priceless!

Thank you! Yes, I’m very very proud of him. Yeah, that’s a pretty big step when your kid goes from the training environment to flying the RV whenever they want. Enjoy the moment!

I must have caught them off guard or something. I agree, his friend looks concerned! But Andrew, my son’s friend, has flown with him twice before, once in a C-150 and another time in the RV. They had a blast!

 

[Roadjunkie1]

Next build...

Flew to Mt Pleasant, Tx and visited the Mid America Flight Museum. I think I know my next build…

Would that be an RV-4 or an RV-8....?

 

[zmatt]

Turned a 12 hour drive into a 3:10 flight!

Also got to take a 12 year old up after landing and let him fly for a bit, i'm 100% sure he got the flying bug.

 

[rvjl]

A crisp, still November morning. Perfect for some formation practice.

 

[newt]

Last weekend I flew from Bankstown to Goolwa for my annual condition inspection.

This weekend I flew back: YGWA to YSBK with a fuel stop at Griffith (YGTH).
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/VHSOL/history/20231125/2330Z/YGWA/YGTH
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/VHSOL/history/20231126/0245Z/YGTH/YSBK

The first leg was one of those flights that starts off looking dank and dismal, with a solid overcast at about 1500' AGL that looks almost-but-not-quite like it wants to start raining. Filed IFR, ascended on-track into the murk, and had one of those incredible moments a few minutes later that I'm never going to get sick of, suddenly popping into the blue-sky sunshine with a flat carpet of glowing white cotton wool balls stretching as far as the eye can see in all directions.

It started to break up about 2 hours into the 2h30m leg. Shot the RNP-24 into Griffith to reset the recency clock. Took fuel and departed east.

ISOL TCU were building, and I diverted about 15 NM right of track to avoid TSRA. No chance of getting above the clouds without O2, so I bumped along underneath them. Got thumped a couple of times by the kind of turbulence that makes the G3X Touch HSI turn into a g-meter for a few seconds, but most of it was like flying over cobblestones rather than flying through potholes.

Visual descent into the Sydney area, uneventful landing at Bankstown. I looked back the way I'd come from over the hills during my taxi to the hangar and thought, "That looks terrible, glad I'm not there!"

Pleased I didn't linger at my fuel stop. An hour after arrival the Sydney area was full of thunderstorms. An hour after that it was perfect. It was the kind of day you had to time, with options for diversions.

About 750 nautical miles for the day, anyway. Fantastic day.

- mark

 

[penguin]

Perhaps a little late posting due unserviceability on the way home,
Low level fun with some friends... Photo credit at bottom of pictures.
https://airrace.pt/

 

[FlyingBanker]

RV Grins for the grandkids

I gave two of my grandsons their first RV grins!

 

[rv8ch]

Trying to get a good picture of my prop, but failing.

 

[PilotjohnS]

Took my daughter home

I took my daughter home.
She had a choice:
1) LAX on Thanksgiving weekend
2) 6.5+ hour car ride with Dad
3) 2.5 Hour flight enduring dad jokes all the way home.

Guess what she chose.

 

[Roadjunkie1]

Where did she go....?

I took my daughter home.
She had a choice:
1) LAX on Thanksgiving weekend
2) 6.5+ hour car ride with Dad
3) 2.5 Hour flight enduring dad jokes all the way home.
Guess what she chose.

For a small fee, we won't tell her you cut her out of the picture except for her arm and water bottle.....

 

[msstahl]

Wings Installed

Had the family over for Thanksgiving. With the crew successfully drawn in they were put to work assisting with the initial wing instillation.

 

[BSwayze]

I hope all of you had a wonderful, fantastic, incredible Thanksgiving. Jamie made a fantabulous dinner and we enjoyed each other's company tremendously. First Thanksgiving in my memory that we found ourselves all alone on this day. All our family were scattered and out of town.
As we finished dinner, the sun came out and we saw blue skies. So we looked at each other and said "What the heck, why not!" and decided to go flying! So we flew over to find the famous Oregon Smiley Face in the trees! I had never seen it before. It's amazing! You can do a google search and read all about it.

The story is, the timber was harvested about 12 years ago. When they replanted it, a circle was drawn and it was planted with Larch trees inside the circle, and the usual Douglas Fir all around. Douglas Fir makes the eyes and the smile! There's a window to see this in the fall after the leaves turn color, but before they fall off. The neat thing is, they did this once, and now it will happen every year for 50 years or so!
https://photos.onedrive.com/photo/3...country=United+States&state=OR&city=Willamina
https://photos.onedrive.com/photo/3...country=United+States&state=OR&city=Willamina
https://photos.onedrive.com/photo/3...country=United+States&state=OR&city=Willamina
https://photos.onedrive.com/photo/3...country=United+States&state=OR&city=Willamina

 

[Roy Thoma]

THANKS to all our RV friends

Our RV-7A spent the weekend in our hangar. We spent the week SCUBA diving and hanging out with RV pilot/builder/friends in Bonaire.

Nichelle (student pilot, check ride expected within a month, likely RV buyer; Rosie (RV-6A); Jimmy & Vickie (RV-6); Mike & Julie (RV-7A); Capt Sandy & me (RV-7A); Gene (not shown, RV-9A)

Each of these planes have made more than one trip to the Caribbean.

Regards,

 

[kentlik]

I hope all of you had a wonderful, fantastic, incredible Thanksgiving. Jamie made a fantabulous dinner and we enjoyed each other's company tremendously. First Thanksgiving in my memory that we found ourselves all alone on this day. All our family were scattered and out of town.
As we finished dinner, the sun came out and we saw blue skies. So we looked at each other and said "What the heck, why not!" and decided to go flying! So we flew over to find the famous Oregon Smiley Face in the trees! I had never seen it before. It's amazing! You can do a google search and read all about it.

The story is, the timber was harvested about 12 years ago. When they replanted it, a circle was drawn and it was planted with Larch trees inside the circle, and the usual Douglas Fir all around. Douglas Fir makes the eyes and the smile! There's a window to see this in the fall after the leaves turn color, but before they fall off. The neat thing is, they did this once, and now it will happen every year for 50 years or so!
https://photos.onedrive.com/photo/3...country=United+States&state=OR&city=Willamina
https://photos.onedrive.com/photo/3...country=United+States&state=OR&city=Willamina
https://photos.onedrive.com/photo/3...country=United+States&state=OR&city=Willamina
https://photos.onedrive.com/photo/3...country=United+States&state=OR&city=Willamina

Bruce! Great to hear from you, my friend! I love the smiley face!
Hope to see you soon!