Recent Low Fuel Incident

Learn from the egregious mistakes of others...

Over and out

Over and out!


Approach at Ukiah.


Coming home.

Ho hum, sucker holes come... hum ho, sucker holes go...

Waiting for that bubble to come and stay - just because you can depart through a layer in class G airspace doesn't mean you can depart through any layer. We waited til it was legal and safe.


Killing time touring the light house.


Breaking up is a good thing.

Preflight Preparation

Internet? No way... trying to get a cell phone signal and happy to see a bar or two.


Trying harder.


Looking for Julia's bubble of freedom.

Landing

Pretty blue ocean.


On final.



Smile of success.

Arrival

Last leg - FLUEN to Shelter Cove. Fog up to the shoreline everywhere except... except Julia's "bubble of happiness" - it looks like Shelter Cove is somewhere just under that pocket of blue.



There it is!



Downwind

Enroute

The round rainbow only pilots can see.


In flight meal service.




Our Route

Shelter Cove - Patti's pictures

Why am I obsessed with salt ponds? The view from 8000 feet leaving the Bay Area was spectacular!



You almost feel like you can see the curvature of the earth!



Bye bye to home - still unsure where we'll end up for the night.

Shelter Cove

Here are some pictures of our trip to Shelter Cove: I took mostly ones from the ground and Patti has the pictures from the air. This is sort of what a trip would be like if you go on any overnight flying adventure with Patti, or if you are planning/thinking of going to the Columbia/Georgetown trip coming up. Its fun!!!!

1. Patti with [still to be named] plane after

arriving.

2. The pocket of sunshine quickly closing up. Shelter Cove doesn't have IFR approaches or departures, so it is very hard to get to, and you may get stuck there, but it is completely worth it. Also notice the trees and houses that line the runway - the town is very small the the runway is the center.

3. Scrunched up star fish sitting on the black beach. The whole beach was covered in the cool

looking black pebbles, many with different white lines and designs, and most of them very smooth.

4. The waves were huge. They sounded like thunder when the splashed up against th

e rocks. I never got pictures of the biggest waves because everytime I put up my camera we got a "

small one".

5. Another big boom wave picture. You can also see the curve of the wave.

6. Deer were everyone. Always be ready to go on a go around, because you never know when a herd of deer will wander around looking for grass in the cracks of the runway.

7. This is just a picture of the runway after the sky was completely covered in clouds. It has a little bit of a slope.

8. When you go on overnight xc trips you generally get to camp out within viewing distance of the runway and your plane.

9. Sea lion! They were cute and making a racket.

10. The sea lions were tanning.

11. Patti making her way down the steep stairs to the short light house.

12. On the way back we got to pass through class Bravo and San Francisco! There's the Golden Gate!

13. The city!

14. SFO. Look how big the planes are!

PNO - time to ride the bull

Herb and Faria have bull rides coming up.

We also need to have a general feast of fettucine alfredo with broccoli and mussels, and a nice tapioca dessert. And we have at least one person (Herb) who has reached ten in the QOD contest.

Would July 20 work for everyone?

Columbia or Georgetown 7/30-8/1

Is anyone interested in a xc flight to Columbia or Georgetown on July 30 to the 31st, or possibly to the morning of 8/1?

If there are two of you who want to go, then you could share the plane - one sitting in the back each way. If there are more than two, we can arrange for an additional instructor. Julia can take her plane over on her own, and we can do the local approaches from there. Herb, you can bring Sierra if we go to Columbia.

Robert will also be going and may have some room in his plane. I'll check around to see if anyone else is interested in coming along!

For the girl that has everything....

I can't believe how excited Patti was about this weight-shifted thing a ma jing. It was all I could do to beg her to please stay in the plane and not try and jump out to see if she could ask if she could give it a try.

4th of July and NOTAMS

There were a couple of NOTAMs yesterday for PYROTECHNIC. 3 of them were off of the SJC VOR. But none of them seemed to cover the area where Redwood City had their fireworks show. These were all listed in the Airspace NOTAMs section... i was curious if I missed something or if there was some reason why the Redwood City fireworks display had no NOTAM.

San Jose CA (Norman Y. Mineta San Jose Intl) [SJC]: July NOTAM #4
Airspace PYROTECHNIC DEMO 400 / below above ground level .5 nautical mile radius 21 nautical miles on the 121° radial of San Jose [SJC VOR] avoidance advised effective from July 04th, 2010 at 09:00 PM PDT (1007050400) - July 04th, 2010 at 09:20 PM PDT (1007050420)

San Jose CA (Norman Y. Mineta San Jose Intl) [SJC]: July NOTAM #5
Airspace PYROTECHNIC DEMO 800 / below above ground level .5 nautical mile radius 4 nautical miles on the 098° radial of San Jose [SJC VOR] avoidance advised effective from July 04th, 2010 at 09:00 PM PDT (1007050400) - July 04th, 2010 at 09:30 PM PDT (1007050430)

San Jose CA (Norman Y. Mineta San Jose Intl) [SJC]: July NOTAM #3
Airspace PYROTECHNIC DEMO 500 / below above ground level .5 nautical mile radius 20 nautical miles on the 176° radial of San Jose [SJC VOR] avoidance advised effective from July 04th, 2010 at 09:00 PM PDT (1007050400) - July 04th, 2010 at 09:20 PM PDT (1007050420)

Should I or shouldn't I?

Imagine seeing this King Air sitting parked haphazardly in the PAO parking row U with one wing sticking all the way out nearly to the center line of the parking row. It was fortunate that my parking spot wasn't very far away so I didn't have to pull the plane too far. I guess if you are big you can park anywhere you want???