Not Boring

[Slick Goodlin]

This would be exciting:

[Nark1]

That looks a lot like the Sierra Nevada Flats. 


There's a back-country guy, Kevin Quinn, and a few of his buddies put on a fly-in, in the fall. (he holds a water ski record in his '53 Cessna 180)


Good times, so I hear.  They do a STOL race.  Not like the one in Alaska.  Takeoff.  Land, same direction as T/O.  180* turn and repeat back to the starting line.
It pits pilot against pilot, rather than $$$ to buy your way to a STOL bird.


Camaraderie, adventure and the occasional dust storm.


I'll be there later this year.  verted.... as in, not inverted...

[Slick Goodlin]

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Camaraderie, adventure and the occasional dust storm.
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That sounds like my kind of fly-in.  A few years ago I headed over to the Super Cub guys' get together in Wisconsin, the same week as Oshkosh and only about a half hour away.  From the sounds of it they spend the days of the week out on local adventures in their airplanes, put on fantastic dinners, do impromptu STOL competitions until the sun goes down then sleep under a wing before repeating it all the next day.  On top of that it was held at the most perfectly maintained grass strip I've ever seen.  The story was that some lawnmower company used the place as their reliability testing ground and the turf rivalled most golf courses.


Unfortunately I didn't have a Super Cub to play along.

[Nark1]

Slick,


Do you remember the name of the strip?


I live in Wisconsin...


Rarely do I need an excuse to head to a fly-in.




Cheers.

[Slick Goodlin]

I want to say the place was called New Holstein.  Like I said, it wasn't a very far drive from Oshkosh.

[David MacRay]

Both of those fly ins sound really good except maybe the dust storms.

[BCPilotguy]

I've been wanting to go down to High Sierra since I became aware of it about 4 years ago. It's too bad they hold it so late in the year. The weather for trying to get home to Northern BC is usually pretty dicey that late in October.  I flew back from Indianapolis in early October 2016 and just made it home by the skin of my teeth before my vacation time was up. I talked with Kevin Quinn via backcountrypilot.org about the dates and he said that it pretty well had to be that late in the year because any earlier wouldn't work for many of the operators from Alaska that come down for it post season. One of these days I'll have to just book a pile of time off surrounding it and try to pick my way down and back.


This is the video that originally piqued my interest in the High Sierra Fly In
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It's grown a fair bit since then, but it doesn't seem to have lots its spirit
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[ScudRunner-d95]

Bullshit! we all know Iron Eagle was the peak of aviation awesomeness and this scene was the apex of cinema 





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[BCPilotguy]

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Bullshit! we all know Iron Eagle was the peak of aviation awesomeness and this scene was the apex of cinema 





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That movie (and that scene in particular) had a profound influence on me as a child.

Airplane in that scene? Cessna 150 Aerobat
Airplane I learned to fly on? Cessna 150 Aerobat
Coincidence? I think not.

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[quote author=ScudRunner link=topic=7914.msg21947#msg21947 date=1518219180]

Bullshit! we all know Iron Eagle was the peak of aviation awesomeness and this scene was the apex of cinema 





[youtube][/youtube]
[/quote]

That movie (and that scene in particular) had a profound influence on me as a child.

Airplane in that scene? Cessna 150 Aerobat
Airplane I learned to fly on? Cessna 150 Aerobat
Coincidence? I think not.
[/quote]

We should let all the Red Bull Air racers know that the maximum speed of an airplane is attained with full flaps  :))