The video posted online recently of an unusual bushplane diving off the edge of a cliff is an attention-getter -- the tiny, two-seat, two-engine, bubble-canopied, tu...
Really cool airport that was at the top of a mesa. Flew out of there a few times before I was a trike pilot. Mesquite is a lot like it. Now its a go cart track ?
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.
Far below, on the southern base of Pagosa Peak I saw two impressive waterfalls. I wish I had spiraled down to get a closer look at them, but I wanted to make my ritual pass over the summit of Pagosa Peak as I have done for many years in a row.
At this point the valley forked in three directions. Which one to follow now? We...; Had we continued over the last ridge, we would have dropped down into Castle Lakes w...