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Monument Valley came into view 50 miles to the west. I flew past Rooster Rock, at the far eastern edge of MV.- We followed the Colorado out of Moab Utah for about 100 miles. Some areas had farms, but it was mostly desolate and empty country.
- ...ded it to the south rim, and could see the Grand Canyon Airport about 5 miles to the south. It's a busy airport, so we passed on landing there. We flew west for 25 miles then lined up on Dragon Corri...
- There is about 20 miles of Glen Canyon downstream of the dam. I looked down at many boats going up and down the river and saw a couple large groups camping in the beaches below.
- The Royal Flying Doctors cover a HUGE amount of territory. Their flight miles add up to 7 trips to the moon each year. We are flying pretty much in the area marked by the state of Texas, and cover a good bit of it.
- We flew north about 30 miles through a flat, empty valley to reach the San Raphael River. We followed the river downstream to reach the aptly named Little Grand Canyon.
- ...ide. I was very bumpy when we made our way through the gap in the mountains east of Royal Arch. I admired Shiprock from 10 miles away, the dropped down low ov...
- First, note the gas tank / seat. We were considering using these to extend our range at times. Two of these in a trike in place of the seats, would be 2x 10 gallons. Or, 375 more miles of range !!! (If your butt and bladder could handle that!)
- Have to fly > 50 miles away and 3 hours with 10 landings at night. Among other things, it's hard to judge your altitude at night. Clouds are just blacker spots in the sky. Black spots on the ground are either airports, or mountains, or lakes/ocean, or rough terrain.
- We were 30 miles downwind from the summit of Mt Taylor, but didn’t feel too much turbulence. We had thought we would land at Double Eagle and top off our gas t...