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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Reilly & Doug (Nature)-
I believe I may at one time, have posted a picture of my Rainbow Bird, here on Super Topo. But if I have, t's buried somewhere deep in the archives, and rotting away--electron by electron.
So, here is my ride:
Another view:
Yet another:
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 3, 2016 - 02:32pm PT
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along with you posting pics in the past wasn't there some sort of invite to go along with it? ;-)
nice looking plane!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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And best of all you've always got three in the green!
Those are such good solid planes and they actually have a usable payload.
I forget where I was fairly recently but I saw a big boy coming in with
none in the green and I'm like "Earth to Air Bozo, gear down, homes!"
He did, eventually.
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 3, 2016 - 02:51pm PT
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So I've got a little plan for the DE if we do engine out emergency landing sim.
ABCDE
E is for Eject, right?
Gonna get me an eject button and when/if we do simulated engine out I'll pull it out of my pocket and say, "here, hold this. when I tell you (when we get to E) push it, Goose. Problem is only your seat ejects".
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Doug--Of course there's an invitation. I'm actually getting instruction to fly in the right seat. May decide to become a geriatric CFI?
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 10, 2016 - 10:14am PT
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Today was a beautiful day to fly. My skills are polishing up nicely. The one i've been working on is pretty dialed in - short field landing. Sticking it right on the 4th stripe now. I'll be scheduling my stage 3 very soon and then onto the final check ride. More cramming junk in my head for the oral but otherwise...
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Topic Author's Reply - May 11, 2016 - 07:58pm PT
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and the grind continues.
Today was interesting. 36010 which is pretty much straight cross-wind for 8. after an interesting takeoff the idea was to stay in the pattern. But with those winds I gave controls to Javi to show me how to one wheel crab land the Cessna. After the T&G I decided it was too much. We found winds at Metro were calmer (which is rather unusual) and headed over there. It had been awhile since I was in class C and figured it would be good to talk to tower. usually it's 33L but the winds and tower put us on 12R. Practiced a few short and soft landings which went well.
Right pattern had us departing to the west - straight towards the Flatirons. My first time cruising them. Stellar morning.
I just have to cram the oral material in my brain and I'll be ready for the final check ride. Should be done in the next few weeks.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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May 11, 2016 - 09:07pm PT
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What's the floor of Class B at Rocky Mountain Metro? You have a tower there to control your departure. I've never flown there, but have plans to do so. I've actually never done a TO or LDG in Colorado. Utah? Yep. Idaho? Yep. South Dakota? Yep. Wisconsin? Yep. California? Yep. My first flight in my Dakota was an instrument departure from Murietta, CA. after I took delivery of the new airplane. My companion was an ATP who got us clearance to VFR "on top." The fog was so dense that I couldn't really see more than a quarter mile, but did a perfect instrument departure and flew to a VOR heading. Came out of the soup over Big Bear Lake, then over Lake Mead and Las Vegas above Class B airspace. We landed at Bryce Canyon for refueling, my first landing. From Murietta, CA. Casper, WY., we averaged 155 kias. with a strong tailwind the last 200 NM. Over the ground speed calculated to 200 mph in that stretch. Actual flying time: 5 hours, 15 minutes.
Flew about 2 weeks ago, and then was again grounded by shitty weather for the past couple weeks.
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Topic Author's Reply - May 11, 2016 - 09:52pm PT
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Half of metro class C and the strips sit right outside of bravo. Eastern part overlaps with the ceiling hitting the floor to the east at [80]. With the high peaks to the west nobody would be on IFR that low so the circle gets chopped parallel (N/S) to the range.
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soaring_bird
Trad climber
Oregon
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May 11, 2016 - 10:23pm PT
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Metro is Class D (not C) airspace. Be careful on your oral exam there.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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May 12, 2016 - 12:54pm PT
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^^^^^^^^
Correct; the nearest Class C is Colorado Springs. Cheyenne is also Class D, as is Casper.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 12, 2016 - 01:00pm PT
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WHOA! They got 5955' buildings in Denver?
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2016 - 06:59pm PT
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Stage 3 Check ride at 7AM. gonna be a long night and early morning.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 29, 2016 - 07:24pm PT
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Break a leg! Oops, bad choice, but you'll sail thru it.
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Jun 29, 2016 - 09:40pm PT
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Roger nature boy, you are clear for landing!
BIG THUMBS UP
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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What happened Nat???
will you be flying over the skyrockets this weekend?
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 3, 2016 - 09:26am PT
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stage 3 went well. I still have some polishing to do. there's a few things i don't quite have memorized.
x-country flight planning got a full pass
weight and balance got a full pass
don't quite have all the certification and privileges stuff memorized.
for the flying I'm very solid. i do need to work on utilizing the GPS better. We did a wx diversion exercise and it took me a bit to respond. And I wasn't able to draw up the airport I wanted to divert to to get my heading. We also did an emergency (passenger having a heart attack) again wasn't able to get info on Metro (KBJC) to get there as quickly as possible. working with the 430 sim will correct that.
So I have one more ground session with my CFI but i've already pretty much scheduled my check ride for around the 14th. With one caveat. Everyone has been booked into August so I contacted a guy in ned. Turns out he needs to do a check evaluation for planes (he has his glider). So he asked me to be his guinea pig. The upside is it won't cost me anything. The downside is I'll have an extra passenger and observer (someone from FSDO).
I'm fine with the added pressure. not sure weight and balance will work out in the 172 on a 5000' runway with 7000' density altitude. So maybe I need to head over to metro and use their 10,000 runway.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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I grew up in little planes.
That time when the engine quit, above the Bake-O mountains, in the clouds, and the pilot was turning the key and it sounded like a Volkswagen bug.....priceless.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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A wx diversion for a private? Really? Yer not sposed to go near wx without an IFR ticket,
or so I was under the illusion. Dudes milkin' ya! Has Obamacare taken over flying, too?
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 4, 2016 - 09:28am PT
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I had planned BDU to CYS. looking at the wx we saw that afternoon thunderstorms were building. as we were flying north my instructor put in the deviation based on diminishing VFR conditions - clouds to the north were not something to deal with. Mostly what he wanted to see is how I would handle a deviation (using the GPS, VOR etc.).
Watched a video this AM and was reminded where the "Nearest" button is. d'oh!
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