The Flying Thread

[Kevo]

I know that there are at least a couple maggot pilots. It seems that somehow we don't yet have a flying thread.

I've been posting some pics to the "View Right Now" thread. Maybe it's worth starting a thread for all things related to flying planes / rotorwing / gliders / etc?


I'll kick things off with a flight from Saturday KDIJ->KDUB->KPNA->KDIJ (Driggs, ID->Dubois, WY->Pinedale, WY->Driggs, ID)

My plan was to link of three of the ranges of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem- the Tetons, the Absarokas and the Wind River Range.


Climbing up and over the Tetons from the west side


Flying through Moran Canyon


Flying over Grand Teton National Park, looking north into Yellowstone


Togwotee Pass and the Absarokas from about 13k feet.

From the top of Togwotee pass down to the airport at Dubois, I needed to lose 7k feet of altitude over about 10 miles. I was too busy to grab photos, but it was a really fun forward slip decent for 6,000 vertical feet and then straight into final approach on RWY 11.

From Dubois, next stop was Pinedale, across the NW corner of the Wind River Range.


Green River Lakes, the headwaters of one of the great rivers of the American West.


The high point on the horizon here is Gannett Peak, the highest mountain in Wyoming.

Similar story of no photos while landing and KPNA.

From there, it was a relatively uneventful sunset flight home via Hoback Canyon and Teton Pass.


Looking down on Jackson


Sunset over Victor enroute back to Driggs


Left a little after 4:00, made it home in time for dinner

[Mazderati]

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[Meadow Skipper]

Great pics!

Made me miss flying around the west and AK in small(er) planes during my fire days.

[east or bust]

Sweet TR! Incredible you can cover that amount of distance in just a few hours


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[GBB]

Love the photos. Thanks for sharing.

How long have you had your pilot’s license? How long did it take you to get it?

[sb]

Superb

[Timberridge]

Noice!
You get the nosewheel down on the centerline in the last one?

[BmillsSkier]

Great shots, thanks.

[Percy Rideout]

real nice.

Bump.

Best way to find big local lines here in the Elks.

[Norseman]

My brother flies a 6-passenger Embraer Phenom for a charter outfit. Plane is a fkn spaceship, all modern avionics, fast high and smooth.

Last month the plane's owner asked to fly his family to Iceland from New England. Due to the small jet's range, that meant stopping for fuel in Goose Bay (CYYR) and Narsarsuaq Greenland (BGBW) before landing in Akureyri (BIAR).

So not only did my bro get to plan out and execute this amazing and challenging international flight with the sweet jet, he got to party and tourist in Greenland and Iceland for a few days... the bastid! Here are some of his pictures.

[Kevo]

Great pics!

Made me miss flying around the west and AK in small(er) planes during my fire days.

Heck yeah. Flying in a bush plane in AK was actually what cemented the idea of wanting to fly for me. There likely isn't a better place in the world to fly in small planes.

Noice!
You get the nosewheel down on the centerline in the last one?

I was actually sitting right seat on that landing (and not actually flying). I had a buddy who came with me. I flew KDIJ-KDUB-KPNA and we switched seats in Pinedale so he could fly KPNA-KDIJ. He was crabbing into the wind on this landing and was able to get the nose around, but wasn't quite on center.

His landing sparked the never-to-be-resolved sideslip vs crab for crosswind landings in small piston aircraft conversation between us.

Sweet TR! Incredible you can cover that amount of distance in just a few hours

It's pretty awesome how much ground you can cover and how time efficient it is compared to driving, especially when flying over mountains.

Love the photos. Thanks for sharing.

How long have you had your pilot’s license? How long did it take you to get it?

I'm a newb- I passed my checkride last month. Total process took about a year and a half. It can definitely be done much faster, but I had to start and stop multiple times because of work getting in the way.

[Kevo]

My brother flies a 6-passenger Embraer Phenom for a charter outfit. Plane is a fkn spaceship, all modern avionics, fast high and smooth.

Last month the plane's owner asked to fly his family to Iceland from New England. Due to the small jet's range, that meant stopping for fuel in Goose Bay (CYYR) and Narsarsuaq Greenland (BGBW) before landing in Akureyri (BIAR).

So not only did my bro get to plan out and execute this amazing and challenging international flight with the sweet jet, he got to party and tourist in Greenland and Iceland for a few days... the bastid! Here are some of his pictures.

What a trip! That looks incredible. That sounds like an absolute dream gig for your brother. So f'n cool.

[mangle]

@kevo - is that Fox Charlie? I spend a lot of time at the Driggs airport. Let me know next time you're here.

[muted reborn]

wow norseman. always cool to see under-the-radar lives/jobs (there's a plane joke in there somewhere) of people living well and not a result from being simply insanely rich.

[NBABUCKS1]

kevo - neat flight. Some incredible scenery and fantastic vis too. Do you have the ads-b flight route from flight rader 24? You probably flew right over me as I was working below in the hoback. where did you fly in ak?

[Ted Striker]

I hate flying, but those are incredible pics!

[XXX-er]

wait arent you a commercial pilot ?

customers used to ask me what I liked about my job ?

I would reply " I'm leaving in 10 minutes, you gotta stay "

[Kevo]

@kevo - is that Fox Charlie? I spend a lot of time at the Driggs airport. Let me know next time you're here.

Yep yep!

I saw in one of the threads that Mazderati linked to that you got did your training out of KDIJ. You ever swing by the hangar parties on the east end of the airport? I've been to one so far.

I'm in Driggs, so I'm at KDIJ fairly often as well. Would be great to link up.

kevo - neat flight. Some incredible scenery and fantastic vis too. Do you have the ads-b flight route from flight rader 24? You probably flew right over me as I was working below in the hoback. where did you fly in ak?

ADS-B recordings are pretty hit and miss when flying low over mountains, so there isn't a good one for this particular flight. We would have flown over around 6:40 PM or so on Saturday. This is the rough flight path from Saturday

I was a passenger on a DHC-2 Beaver flight from Talkeetna into the Alaska Range on a climbing trip back in the day. It was my first time ever flying in a single engine plane low over mountains and I was pretty enamored with the idea ever since.

[mangle]

Yep yep!

I saw in one of the threads that Mazderati linked to that you got did your training out of KDIJ. You ever swing by the hangar parties on the east end of the airport? I've been to one so far.

I'm in Driggs, so I'm at KDIJ fairly often as well. Would be great to link up.

Very cool! I'm usually at the hangar parties, but I've missed a few this summer. I have a hangar on the other side of the airport. Always up for a beer at warbirds!

[NBABUCKS1]

ADS-B recordings are pretty hit and miss when flying low over mountains, so there isn't a good one for this particular flight. We would have flown over around 6:40 PM or so on Saturday. This is the rough flight path from Saturday

I was a passenger on a DHC-2 Beaver flight from Talkeetna into the Alaska Range on a climbing trip back in the day. It was my first time ever flying in a single engine plane low over mountains and I was pretty enamored with the idea ever since.

you flew right over me according to that path and was probably out bucking wood during that time

I was in Ak last week for work and flew out of Wasilla up over talketna near denali state park flying in a heli. It was pretty epic flying to say the least. Those old beavers are awesome to fly in. Flew in a bunch when I did salmon work up there in college. I'll save the photos because I wasn't piloting last week, or ever.

[Kevo]

you flew right over me according to that path and was probably out bucking wood during that time

I was in Ak last week for work and flew out of Wasilla up over talketna near denali state park flying in a heli. It was pretty epic flying to say the least. Those old beavers are awesome to fly in. Flew in a bunch when I did salmon work up there in college. I'll save the photos because I wasn't piloting last week, or ever.

That sounds like an incredible heli flight. You gotta post some pics. This thread can be about more than piloting aircraft.

[Timberridge]

wait arent you a commercial pilot ?

That's probably why he hates flying. My cousin was a fighter pilot in the AF. When his service was finished he got a job with Delta. He left after 8 months.

[BmillsSkier]

That's probably why he hates flying. My cousin was a fighter pilot in the AF. When his service was finished he got a job with Delta. He left after 8 months.

I wonder if that would be the aeronautical equivalent of going from daily driving an F1 car to a city bus?

[Timberridge]

Ha. That's the analogy he used. And I dunno if it's like this anymore, but he would fly the same route all the time. The only thing different was the weather.

[XXX-er]

That's probably why he hates flying. My cousin was a fighter pilot in the AF. When his service was finished he got a job with Delta. He left after 8 months.

To be honest flying looks pretty boring at least until something goes FUBAR or of course

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