salt_air's Wighteous Western Wound up begins

[salt_air]

Safe landing at Lost Wages .... parking for the night .... uh, the plane that is.



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[salt_air]

Headed up to Furnace Creek .... oh, wait is that down ... oh well over to Furnace Creek.

[salt_air]

Safely on the ground at Furnace Creek .... oh, yeah .... gotta make a note of this airport for the next RTW.

Interesting flight .... hands on mostly with little autopilot only ... that's just as well for me.



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[salt_air]

Brought to my attention by a good friend and colleague ... or I would have just continued like Mr. Magoo as if nothing ever happened...

I neglected to land at the airport at Lake Powell .... Page Municipal (KPGA).





For now and until I hear different from .... you know who, sssshh ... I'll go back to Moab Canyonlands (KNCY) and refly the leg I flew into Grand Canyon National Park (KGCN).

This time making a full stop landing at Page (KPGA) ... thennnn I can go to the airport at the Grand Canyon (KGCN) and surgically insert the data into the fine spreadsheet WR 2013.




Leaving Moab for Lake Powell

[Willy]

That's short for Las Vegas Willy ... not to be confused with the plural of a small car the was made by Chevrolet back in the 70's. :mixedsmi:

I neglected to land at the airport at Lake Powell .... Page Municipal (KPGA).

Maybe if you'd have been driving one of these?

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[salt_air]

Maybe if you'd have been driving one of these?

For sure Willy .... that would have been better :isadizzy:

[salt_air]

Made it safe to Page ... no issues.



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[salt_air]

Second adjustment to fix.

Woulda been so easy to do it right the first time ....


Let's go to the Grand Canyon again

[salt_air]

Made it to the Grand canyon safely .... now after posting validation we will magically warp over to Death Valley and pick up the ball I dropped there.

Nice flight .... once again no issues.




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[salt_air]

I suppose for me as much as anyone else ... I'll summarize these last few posts and some of the foolishness that inattention can bring on.

I missed the airport at Page in the low course and didn't wake up (or was awoken) until a few airports later.

My original flight out of Moab (KCNY) had me landing at Grand Canyon National Park (KGCN) ignorantly bypassing a required stop at Page (KPGA).

Subsequently I went back to Moab and reflew to the Grand Canyon ... this time including a full stop landing at Page.

Soooo instead of this Leg number being one number higher it's two ... to add in the extra leg created by adding the extra stop (to the foo-pa) at Page.




I don't know ... reading this crap ... maybe I should have left it alone ... possibly easier to understand on one's own.

Yeah. right, so we'll be leaving Death Valley shortly on what will now be Leg 14 instead of Leg 13.



Humble apologies to any and all who read this and thanks to the finder of the mishap for bringing it to my attention in a civilized and very respectful PM.

[salt_air]

Whew! ... let's get back to work.


Out of Death Valley for the crawl up to Mono Lake

[salt_air]

Nice flight ... plenty to see, but not too distracting.

You'll have to pay attention while keeping it under 10000', but it ain't too tuff if you don't try to stick to one heading (direct).

Picked up the VOR at Coaldale 117.70 and flying straight to it kept me out of trouble with the terrain, but it took me a bit off a straight line to Lee Vining.

Second I picked up the 38nm VOR at Bishop 109.60 to bring me back to the direct course line.

Great scenery along the way ...



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[salt_air]

California here we come ..


We'll have dinner at Mariposa ... heading there now

[Moses03]

We'll have dinner at Mariposa ... heading there now

http://www.sugarpinecafe.com/

[salt_air]

Down safe at Mariposa .... my favorite leg so far.

I tried to beat it around them there hills to the south and think I maybe shouldda went north .... lots of fun.

Reminded me a lot of some of the shenanigans in the Andes in DC-3's.










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Savoury's Restaurant Moses ... I'll have a drink waiting on ya .... then I'm thinkin':



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[salt_air]

Headed out to complete the Low Course for the Bronze Class at San Carlos.

This would make a Great! Hoplist ... thanks to all of it's designers and producers.



Still two more entries ??? ...

[salt_air]

Safe landing at San Carlos

Great fun .... Great course.





I'd like to stay and chat, but I have to catch this freighter up to Seattle ... it's just about to leave.

Cheers,





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[robert41]

Congrats on the first finish.

[salt_air]

Congrats on the first finish.

Thanks buddy!

Running out of time for the next to entries .... we'll se how things develop.



Cheers,

[MM]

Well done, Austin. Great snaps along the way.

[Great Ozzie]

Savoury's Restaurant Moses ... I'll have a drink waiting on ya .... then I'm thinkin':



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Hey Austin... way to finish up you old salt.

Btw... if you flyin' - I'm buyin'.