---------------------------------------------------------- Europa-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sat 02/19/22: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 10:13 PM - Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 2/14 - 2/21 (Area-51) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 10:13:32 PM PST US Subject: Europa-List: Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 2/14 - 2/21 From: "Area-51" Were on a road to nowhere.... today started early with a no fuss planned fly-in fly-out breakfast... it was a great flight in, no traffic as expected, showers and low level cloud to weave around.. 125nm into 153nm destination low lying cloud started getting thicker and lower as the sky to the north started turning dark grey... into the first valley we went to check it out and decided to pull the mission, leaving a handful of more curious aviators investigating possibilities... out we flew the way we came in and back past abeam a very busy local grass strip full of pilots peeing before heading back home... with about 60L of fuel left the europa just kept going... eventually nature dictated a forced landing at a lovely airfield where we peed on a shrubbery and that felt so very good to do... full power down 15 and heading out over rising ground was not difficult for the europa, and we went the rest of the way back to base... the adventure continued at rounding out hitting some lift just when you are not needing it, so back up into the sky we went, full power and observing 1000min at 80kt IAS; very impressive for 80hp and two up... second approach was successful and we were backtracking soon after to pack the cruise missile away with the help of the fully engineered rail system completed after a week long very long construction just the day before. Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=506096#506096 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message europa-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/Europa-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/europa-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/europa-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.