The wind picked up in the wrong direction, so I had to land between the trees at Mexican Mountain. This was not fun in the swirling thermally air.
I stayed just above the tops of the trees until I reached the wide spot at mid-field, then plopped down.
...eady up, so we just ate dinner then crawled into our tents. I spent an hour transferring video from camcorders to my laptop. It felt weird messing with my laptop out here, so I took a picture...
...is a link to a video I made of the first time I landed here in 2009. It also gives a you an idea of the spectacular view over the back at the top of the airstrip.
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...oon and the winds were still light at 8mph, but they would pick up later before we left the hangar. This ended up being my longest non-stop flight ever at 5.3 hours.&nbs...
...much turbulence. We had thought we would land at Double Eagle and top off our gas tanks, but we both had plenty of fuel. So we decided to do the return flight non-stop from Nokai Dome to Belen in o...
the extra filters are sold by oreillys autoparts for lawn mowers etc. $3.95 ea. i'm no lover of paper filters, they can soak with water and plug up. (ask me how i know!).