Destination Rogers field O05

I have this desire to visit airports near water. Airports like Shelter Cove, Catalina, Bryant field, Spaulding, Trinity, and Rogers all have been on my wish list. As usual, I have had a couple of "plans" to get to one of these airports but conditions dictated otherwise in previous attempts. Fortunately I did make it to Rogers field recently and I have to admit the expectations were met. WX conditions, schedule, passengers and plane all came together.

A couple of cool things about Rogers field:
1. They have "free" bikes so once you get to the airport you can go into town... they do have a donation fund for bike maintenance
2. The airport is pretty close to the town of Chester
3. There is the "Pine Shack Frosty" in town where you can get a great burger and a shake - they have lots of flavors.
4. Mountain air ... you know what I mean?

One route to get to Rogers field is to fly to Oroville airport, OVE, and then depart on a heading of 015 which follows feather river and the Feather River highway (highway 70). You will shortly see Butt Valley Reservoir just prior to reaching Lake Almanor.

I will definetley add this to the places for a return trip and maybe plan to stay overnight.

I didn't make this up

This was a PIREP from today.

TRK UA /OV RNO-TRK/TM 2019/FL085/TP C180/TB MOD/RM WOMEN ON BOARD WOULD SAY ITS SEVERE


I wonder how that was called in.

9/11 Arrival Procedure

I always wondered about how the folks that create the FAA arrival procedure come up with the names for the waypoints. Some seem to have special meaning like the waypoints around the Charles Schultz airport (STS). For 9/11, a new arrival procedure was published for Regan National airport. It was called FRDMN ONE. It has some meaningful waypoints.

AIM 2013 Updates

The new FAR/AIM 2013 has been published. There are not a lot of changes but one caught my eye. A slight update to 4-1-20, Transponder Operations and in particular paragraph 3. The change states that the transponder should be turned "on or normal altitude reporting position prior to moving on the airport surface". The interesting thing about this is that the G1000 doesn't go into altitude reporting position until the aircraft is airborne. I wonder how this will change the procedures for G1000 equipped planes. Should the transponder be set to ALT as part of the taxi checklist? Will Garmin update its G1000 to change the default behavior of the transponder?