XC TrikerAir Creation Tanarg 80hp BioniX 15M
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)
EXIF
| Model | iPhone 5 |
| Shutter | 1/1550 |
| Aperture | f/2.4 |
| ISO Speed | 50 |
| Focal Length | 4mm |
| Captured | 2013:10:07 15:43:43 |
Mid Field between the 4 Runways of LAX
KLAX: Los Angeles International Airport
Comments
Wow, this is great shot! I cant to imagine flight through a little Bratislava airport, or more bigger Vienna airport... but LAX??!!??
That without a doubt is an awesome shot...wow.
Amazing. How hard was it to get clearance for that?
Hey Maarten, the hardest part is reading the chart-- Soo Complex!! :) It's kinda overwhelming at first, but after a while you get used to it. There are about 5 routes across LAX airspace in the N/S direction. One does not require a "clearance" at all but it definitely requires a plan (as well as an endorsement & some equipment), and since no one is watching you there and everyone is crowded into a tiny corridor it's kinda hairy in terms of other traffic- especially since in a trike, it will be coming up behind you. Four of us trikers got together and hired an instructor to take us through the airspace in a Cessna 182 first. Then we studied some more, made an instructional movie, wrote up a bunch of flight plans, step by step with comm / altitudes, etc. Then we flew it a few times and it got to be much much much simpler. Soooo the answer is that after some study & practice it's not actually hard at all.
I hangar at a towered airport and at first I really didn't want to do that. But, now it's awesome. My wife feels much better flying there because they're watching out for us. But, just being there the little mechanics of the routine for airspace get to be simple-- get ATIS, then call tower (or approach), tell them who, where what & ATIS, ... etc. When that becomes common place, then you just string them together like walking, one step by step. Flying between distant controlled airports it's like walking step by step, flying over many airports like this it's kinda like jogging. In a fast plane, it's like sprinting-- trikes are awesome, it's hard for a trike to get ahead of you- Safer--- just more reasons to love 'em.
Thank you for the background info. Fascinating. I guess it is the 'unknown' that makes it intimidating. I'm thinking of taking a few lessons myself from a controlled airport. Not that I plan on using it much (small airports work well for me), but I would feel safer knowing it all.
We were once practically in the middle of nowhere Eastern Oregon (KPDT near @Rizzy's old place :) and the only airport for miles around was a Class D airport- serving a town of like two people (WTF !!) I mentioned to the guy I was flying with ( Kim @FlyingLeap ) this was a good reason to get his Airspace endorsement-- if we had an engine problem now, where was he going to go ??? He laughed and said, "Yeah, this must be the Siberia of the ATC word. If you screw up as a Tower controller, they send you here." At that point we were laughing too hard to make a radio call ... ;)
But seriously, the radio is a VERY powerful safety tool. The audio CD "Say Again Please" taught me a ton (it's kinda like a language CD, you have to play it over and over on the way to work until you want to puke, then suddenly it sticks. With the radio, you can get weather, ask for holes in the clouds, I asked how far away the lightning I was seeing was once, directional steers, traffic, etc, etc.
wow - big bird territory