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0O2, 0O4, 0S5, 0Q5, 14S, 1O3, 3S8, 3W5, 9S3, A39, AVENAL, CALIFORNIA VALLEY, CN12, CYQS, DIXON, FOT, Headquarters, ID85, K1O3, K3O1, K3O8, KAST, KAVX (Catalina Island), KAWO, KBOK, through KBUR, KC80, KCCB, KCMA, KDAG, El Mirage Dry Lake & Flying J Ranch-El Mirage, KFHR, Over LAX midfield & LAX school, KFUL, KGCD, KHAF, KHRI, KINW, KIYK, KIZA, KKIC, KL52, KLGD, KLKV, KLPC, KLSN, KLVK, KMPI, KMRY, through KNTD, KO22, KOKB, KONP, KORS, KOXR, KPGA, KPRB, KRBG, KRBL, KRNM, KSBA, KSBP, KSDM, KSHN, KSMO, KSMX, KSNS, KSZP, KSZT, KTOA, KUAO, KUKI, low pass KVBG, KWHP, KWVI, KZPH, L06, L08, L09, L61, MATANCHEN, Monument Valley, NV74, Dry Lakes, O46, O69, Over KLAX, PHHN, PHDH, S16, S51, S89, SALTON Sea x3, Slab City, Stocking Meadows, through KSEA, A few that won't be mentioned (OR/MX/Sltn), Through TRONA GAP, UT25, WA09, Yosemite, 49X, KHII, L62, L17, KFCH, KCVH, CA66, KOAR KSFF 73S 72S S94 KPUW S68 Bill's Ranch S27 KGPI (Glacier) 58S 2MT1 53U 8S1 7S0 52S S09 S34 KTHM S83 KDEW, L88 (New Cuyama "X"d- low pass), KRIR (FlaBob), L35 (Big Bear), KSBD (KTOA <->San Bernadino @ NIGHT ! :) L45, KBFL, L05, O26, Over Mt Whitney Summit at 17,200', L73, KMIT, L19, L84, KOXR, P20, L54, KFUL (Trike Lecture), KCLR, YYWG YCOR YHAY YIVO YWTO YMIA YBRN YDLQ YTOC YPOK YWGT
~ 166 Airports, Fields, or off road (4 Countries- hopefully more soon :)
If you put all your airports/off airports on SkyVector, you can make a cool map of the places you've been. These are mine:
In North American Continent (US, Mex, Canada, Hawaii)
In AUSTRALIA (MegaFauna 2014, etc)
ALL (get's a little crowded in this view)
Comments
"The Venerable Vance Breese" asked him if there was any particular protocol for their Gyro event and all the traffic- basically there are no "rules" out there (except fly safe and generic FAA codes) -- but the Gyros do have a certain protocol it would probably be good to have some familiarity with (double click on the picture below to enlarge):
In the satellite photo, North is up, and the big grey patch is El Mirage as seen from space. Near the end of the green arrow is the Flying J, where many trikes will be. Just to the left of the white arrows is an out-bulging of the dry lake called "Gyro Cove" at least during the fly-in. From what I could understand of Vance's description, the Gyro Pilots park their RV's in approximately the blue line. Which is just West of some bushes/"stuff" on the dry lake (marked by red triangle in the diagram). The Gyros have been instructed to not fly over the top of the RVs (blue), rather to fly parallel to the RVs near Gyro Cove (following the directions of the white arrows). That's it, that's all he know of any particular protocol.
We both discussed that our major concern out there usually (given basically an anything goes traffic pattern, ability to land in all directions, and no "pattern" altitude, and aircraft of every type-- especially UAVs (drones)) is running into another airplane. Also, motorcycles, dragsters, dune buggies, ATV's etc all over the lake bed. That's on a normal weekend. The air is going to be especially crazy on a "Fly-In" weekend. There is no particular radio frequency that I or Vance know of (if you know of a particular freq, let us know. Multicom- 122.9 or Air to Air Chat 122.75 (or rarely 122.85) would be my best guesses.
I also had to ask a little about Ken Brock. He was a pilot who was instrumental in the development of Gyros, and every year they hold this Fly-In in his memory and fly over his ranch (nearby I believe). He was killed in an accident in a fixed wing plane landing at his ranch.