Spardog Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 (edited) Never mind. Edited July 26, 2016 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted July 26, 2016 Author Share Posted July 26, 2016 One out of Compton Abbas (EGHA) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted July 27, 2016 Author Share Posted July 27, 2016 Around Popham... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted August 15, 2016 Author Share Posted August 15, 2016 The newest ORBX airport...Narvik. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted October 5, 2016 Author Share Posted October 5, 2016 A quick jaunt around the Vashon Island area. Heidi and I are seriously thinking about relocating up to Washington State, and since she likes Gig Harbor a whole bunch, I figured I'd do a flyover. /applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=%7BSMILIES_PATH%7D/icon_e_wink.gif&key=49c7bc4bebefb3c576578d12c8a6bba67b170764aca0dbd2cc764154596e0154">Waiting at Vashon Municipal Airport (2S1)...Headed south, with Seattle at our backs...Over Wax Orchards Airport (WA69), we might see this again.../applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=%7BSMILIES_PATH%7D/icon_e_wink.gif&key=49c7bc4bebefb3c576578d12c8a6bba67b170764aca0dbd2cc764154596e0154">The town of Gig Harbor off to our right...Leaving Gig Harbor behind...Approaching Tacoma Narrows Airport (KTIW), for a touch and go...The "go" par from KTIW...On final back at Wax Orchards...Tied down among friends, and it's time for a well deserved IPA... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWPlague Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Nice, I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 KBLU to KTVL: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted January 1, 2017 Author Share Posted January 1, 2017 Just a few shots of the taxi, takeoff, and climb; on my trip from KEGE to KTVL. Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 Picked up the Dash 8 and GSX over the weekend. Haven't even tried to start her up yet, but at Eagle County, all of the add-on's look amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted March 20, 2017 Author Share Posted March 20, 2017 Short hop from Walla Walla Regional to Longview Ranch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWGeezer Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Wow, that end of day lighting for the snowy scene is pretty wonderful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted March 20, 2017 Author Share Posted March 20, 2017 Thanks Tom! It was windy as hell when I landed there, and I'm glad I didn't get blown off the snowy runway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Spardog Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 /applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=%7BSMILIES_PATH%7D/thumbsup.gif&key=740950605ea2b767b0522526afb1c81551f03118b6b4457f095c43ae8aab1fd4"> Flight route? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted April 9, 2017 Author Share Posted April 9, 2017 The flight with the RV-7A was from Bonner's Ferry (65S) to Felt's Field (KSFF), and went off without a hitch.The flight with the Lancair Legacy was from Eagle County (KEGE) to Telluride (KTEX). If you notice the weather on the 6th shot, clouds are completely covering the Telluride Airport. I should have found an alternate. I did not, and you can see the shit sandwich I prepared for myself in the 7th shot. Luckily I had an opening into a Valley off to my right, so I diverted out of there, and found a clear path to KTEX through another pass that wasn't filled with pea soup. I would NEVER have done that in real life, but the sim lets us do stupid shit to experiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spardog Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 I would NEVER have done that in real life... In 1980, close friends of my parents flew their Cessna 172 into that type of weather while flying from Butte Valley airstrip (A32) to Redding Municipal Airport (KRDD); plane iced up and they crashed near Mt. Shasta. /applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=%7BSMILIES_PATH%7D/icon_e_sad.gif&key=38741f9e3530d7cdc640e0699ad44e6069f4d0e7d8af9de1ac5a402558336cb2"> Ain't it great to have do-overs in a flight simulation? /applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=%7BSMILIES_PATH%7D/icon_yes.gif&key=b38837c8382abbb64f1f2e7a1344fd8da73e346d627d977fe7b265a4aa15f12a"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted April 9, 2017 Author Share Posted April 9, 2017 I'm sorry to hear that Spar. /applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=%7BSMILIES_PATH%7D/icon_e_sad.gif&key=38741f9e3530d7cdc640e0699ad44e6069f4d0e7d8af9de1ac5a402558336cb2">If icing was properly modeled in FSX, I'm sure I would've been in a world of hurt on that flight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted September 9, 2017 Author Share Posted September 9, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Spardog Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Nice, Ron. /applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=%7BSMILIES_PATH%7D/thumbsup.gif&key=740950605ea2b767b0522526afb1c81551f03118b6b4457f095c43ae8aab1fd4"> They brought back fond memories.That Piper looks like the type I flew ($20/hr wet) the kids to see their grandma and grandpa back in the mid 1960's.[attachment=0]Ron Piper.JPG[/attachment][attachment=1]Flying To Grandmas.JPG[/attachment] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted September 24, 2017 Author Share Posted September 24, 2017 Love those pictures Spar, and wish those prices still existed!The aircraft in those shots is the A2A PA-28-180 Piper Cherokee. I just picked it up on Friday evening, and it is one of the most enjoyable A2A birds I've purchased.Looking up the registration of the plane you posted, that was a 1967 140 HP version, and it's current owner is based in Jackman, Maine. I'll bet you had a hoot transporting the kiddos around in that thing. /applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=%7BSMILIES_PATH%7D/icon_biggrin.gif&key=64cd7b7a0036899205810ec0a5b90ed7121d5889dd92733089c47c9758b7f4ae"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWGeezer Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Great pics Spar....wish I could see a close up of what " the young parrot king" looked like back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spardog Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Aye, Aye, Boss!Learned to fly in Redding, CA. Soloed at age 19. Lifting off the runway and soaring around the country side during that solo ride gave me such a feeling of total FREEDOM! Thank Gawd, I greased the landing with my instructor and his pilot friends watching --and I bet you that he was grading my approach and touchdown! As I was taxing towards the gaggle of on-lookers, canopy was open and I was grinning from ear-to-ear. He looked mighty relieved that I had not bent the prop or lost a wing. It was just a glorious experience! Never wanted to end that flight. Photo 1. A thin Spar (Hmm, I seem taller at that angle /applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=%7BSMILIES_PATH%7D/thumbsup.gif&key=740950605ea2b767b0522526afb1c81551f03118b6b4457f095c43ae8aab1fd4"> ) circa 1967-1968 Spar and Sprout.JPG[/attachment]Photo 3. Chico State College graduate - FINALLY!! [attachment=1]College Grad 1969.JPG[/attachment]4. View from Piper Comanche over Shasta Lake. Family was flying from KCIC (Chico, CA) to A-32 airstrip (Dorris, CA). [attachment=0]Flight Over Shasta Lake.JPG[/attachment]Dorris: A dinky little CA town on Hwy 97, 20 miles South of Klamath Falls, OR. Dorris has a large American flag mounted on a real high flag pole at City Hall and three 90-degree turns to help the town folks. Those corners were (are) nice spots to gather up free lumber, canned food, beer and cokes, and/or catch wounded cows, etc. Truck drivers speeding down Hwy 97 often enter one of those turns too fast and tip over, spilling the trucks cargo. No police in this berg, just a loud siren (folks hear the siren and just get their rifles or shotguns from their vehicle's back window and chase the bad guys down or chase 'em into the train tunnel with a couple of folks working at the lumber mill armed at each entrance). By the time a highway patrol officer arrives from Yreka (one hour 9 minutes (66.9 miles), hell, the roadway is normally cleared of any spilled cargo and the bad guys are begging the officer to arrest them.lLRJvBc-_Z0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted September 25, 2017 Author Share Posted September 25, 2017 AWESOME SHOTS SPAR!!! Thanks for sharing.I have been to Dorris on numerous occasions as my FIL lived in LaPine, OR, and we always took 97 to get up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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