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Re: Flying across the Continent in a Biplane

Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 10:35 am
by Colonel
For some reason my NDB approaches
improved enormously after I got a GPS  ;D

Technology sure gets better over the
years, but other stuff can get a little
weird.  Part of aging I guess.

Re: Flying across the Continent in a Biplane

Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 10:39 pm
by Colonel
Back home!

Locals were impressed by the formation
landing on the 100 foot wide runway  :))

I landed and told tower we were unfamiliar
and based there.

I love this picture from Flagstaff

[img width=500 height=375][/img]

7000 foot altitude with 13000 foot
mountains behind

Re: Flying across the Continent in a Biplane

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 1:31 am
by Chuck Ellsworth
Have you left the Socialist Republic of Canada Andy?

Re: Flying across the Continent in a Biplane

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 9:23 am
by Colonel
I couldn't turn down the low taxes and
endless summer.  It's warm and the sun
shines almost every day.  Perfect for flying
biplanes and riding motorcycles!

[img width=281 height=500][/img]

Next time you're passing by, give me
a holler.  We're always having BBQ's
in the back yard for expats and pilots.

Re: Flying across the Continent in a Biplane

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 3:36 pm
by DeflectionShot
Hey Colonel congrats on the move...did you manage to get down there on N1B visa?? We've been trying to emigrate for four years on the I-130 category....unbelievable backlog in the California USCIS processing center.




Re: Flying across the Continent in a Biplane

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:52 pm
by Colonel
Never had any problems with the US.  Funny note:
my family was originally from Virginia, moved to
Toronto after the Revolutionary War as UEL's - the
Family Compact. 

The weird thing about having family from old Virginia
is that it wasn't a very big place between 1620 and
1780 - during that century and a half, pretty well all
the local families intermarried to an alarming degree
and everyone ended up being related.  One of my FFV:

[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burwell_f ... f_Virginia]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burwell_f ... f_Virginia[/url]

[quote]The Burwells were among the First Families of Virginia in the Colony of Virginia.
John Quincy Adams once described the Burwells as typical Virginia aristocrats of their period:
forthright, bland, somewhat imperious and politically simplistic by Adams' standards.
In 1713, so many Burwells had intermarried with the Virginia political elite that
Governor Spotswood complained that " the greater part of the present Council
are related to the Family of Burwells[/quote]

The result of this is that a cousin of mine, Ben
Harrison, signed the Declaration of Independence.
He had some interesting offspring.

All that to say that I have lots of family in the US
and I feel quite comfortable here.  Americans seem
to be ok with a Canadian whom has two US Presidents
as cousins.

PS  Ever hear of a Lewis Burwell Puller?  USMC three star?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesty_Puller

Re: Flying across the Continent in a Biplane

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2017 4:41 am
by David MacRay
[quote author=Shiny link=topic=6923.msg18745#msg18745 date=1503124499]
[quote]Had a tailwind westward all through the Rocky Mountains. Weird.[/quote]


I know right? I had to do a hold followed by a N D fucking B approach the other day. Like the dark ages or something. Sure sign of the pending apocalypse.
[/quote]

On Monday I saw the sun get blocked, then later in the day driving past the Airport where Bob Hoover's P-51 Old Yeller is based, someone broke the nose wheel off what looked like a Piper.

Taxied through a fence onto the golf course. The nice people on the radio didn't know why.