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1. 08:23 AM - saturday flying (BOB MARTIN)
2. 03:22 PM - Re: SERV Roster (Larry Bowen)
3. 08:53 PM - Six New Email Lists / Forums At Matronics! (Matt Dralle)
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--> RVSouthEast-List message posted by: "BOB MARTIN" <libertyva@msn.com>
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Well if you missed flying yesterday, you missed a good day of winter flying!
Larry and I are slowly doing the VA Ambassador program, where if you fly to all
the airports in the state and get a stamp from that airport in the passport book
they provide, you get a leather flying jacket! wow.
Now we already have our own jackets, but the idea of flying to all the airports
in Virginia is pretty cool and the promise of a gift at the end is icing on the
cake. We surely know we could buy a new jacket for what we will spend in fuel......but
hey....we need reasons to fly and we have found it very rewarding
to see the other airports and chat with new fellow aviators and airport bums
telling the local lore.
Saturday, the weather and temps look favorable for a long xcountry so we skipped
breakfast and headed for the farthest airport from Louisa down in the far south
west corner of the state to LEE County (0VG). That leg was 263 nm and we had
a slight headwind from the west and we stayed at 4500 to minimize that and
we didn't push the power up and flew at about 19 inches for me and 2400 rpm for
Larry (we both have 0-360's) it took 2 hours and 10 min.
We hollered for Stormy on 122.82 and 122.85 as we passed by Hop-a-long with no
luck.
Lee County looks brand new and cut out of the rock.....it appears they had very
little dirt to work with!
Our next stop was Wise Co. (LNP) 38 miles away. Wise was very friendly but I didn't
see any food around and skipping breakfast to get an earlier start, we were
getting hungry! The guy working the FBO...said there was a diner a 5 minute
walk away or they had bikes we could use....2 of them.....now, I haven't ridden
a bike, other than exercise bikes and not them in years, so we opted to ride
the bikes, it was fun!!
and the dinner had good BBQ as well.
Our next stop was Grundy (GDY) about 30 miles away and I'll now say, most of the
airports in this part of the country are on high ground rather than low ground
like around our home base so it is a little different looking.....but....Grundy
is 2300 foot on top of a mountain with cliffs at each end......kinda like
the river end of Stormy's runway, but Stormy's is hidden from view with trees
and Stormy has you approach from the opposite end so you don't really see it.
Grundy is quite different, as you can see both ends and cliffs from downwind......I
commented to Larry on Unicom while on downwind, that it REALLY was on top
of a mountain! and a "voice" cam over the radio "it=92s an aircraft carrier...be
careful! " so we really watched the numbers and anticipated up and downdrafts
that never occurred. The local airport bum on the field we chatted with,
said some days the wind blows from 3 different directions along the strip at
the same time, oh my.
Our next stop was Tazewell or Richlands (6V3).....there we had a Cessna 140 catch
us! We had talked to him in the air.....he would land as we were taking off
our last 2 previous stops, but at Tazewell, we were getting gas, so he caught
us. Come to find out, he was a local to our area and was based at Orange, just
a short hope from Louisa where we are based.....he was doing the ambassador
program too and only had 7 more stops to complete.....as it was 4:15 then.....we
were all heading home from Tazewell.
Larry and I climbed to 9500 to get as much tailwind as possible and still throttled
back, we had about a 40 mph tailwind as we cruised at 200-205mph........pretty
nice and much quicker than the 160mph going down, especially trying to beat
the big ball from setting at LKU. We again tried to raise Stormy on the air
to air with no success. We passed just west of Roanoke's Class B space and
while I was monitoring approach frequency (SL40) I heard our new Cessna 140 friend
getting, or trying to get flight following as he passed thru their space....somehow
they weren't getting his xponder, but they were talking to him and
getting his position reports and doing what they could for him....I guess just
southern hospitality, smile. We had smooth air all the way home to Louisa and
just qualified for night landings! I'm sure the 140 driver was well after dark
getting back to Orange.
The log books showed 4.8 hours of hobbs time.......and 4 airport stops....a very
good day for the end of January........
We hope all of you had equally good days.......
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Bikes for lunch run at Wise
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Lee Co...all rock
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Cessna 140 caught us at Tazewell
Larry Burruss---RV-6
Louisa County, VA
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--> RVSouthEast-List message posted by: "Larry Bowen" <Larry@BowenAero.com>
Roster updates are complete. Let me know if you sent me an update but did
not get a reply or if I mistyped something, etc.
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Larry Bowen
Larry@BowenAero.com
http://BowenAero.com
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| Subject: | Six New Email Lists / Forums At Matronics! |
--> RVSouthEast-List message posted by: Matt Dralle <dralle@matronics.com>
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