6Y9 2009 - Return home and Photo/Video Thread

CJones · Sep 8, 2009

Ted DuPuis said:
Is there a procedure for that in the POH?

There was a kid last year who apparently took lessons from the lady in red, and went around asking everyone for airplane rides, claiming he'd never had one before (this wasn't his first year doing it). I was one of the people who gave him a ride. Kid seemed to have interest and was good enough, but I was later told that's what he does every year.

gprellwitz said:
I think I know the kids you're talking about. They show up starting on Friday, and actually spend some time with us sitting around. They've gotten less annoying over the years. They don't seem to say that they haven't been up, but rather that they haven't been up in you particular plane.

Yeah, those guys were on everyone's heels from day one. It has been interesting to watch them 'grow up' over the past few years. The older one has to be pushing 15 or better now, but they have gotten much easier to handle as they have gotten older. This year, as Grant mentioned, they spent a lot of time just sitting around shooting the bull with everyone.

6Y9 is indeed one large (growing) family!

Ted · Sep 8, 2009

CJones said:
Yeah, those guys were on everyone's heels from day one. It has been interesting to watch them 'grow up' over the past few years. The older one has to be pushing 15 or better now, but they have gotten much easier to handle as they have gotten older. This year, as Grant mentioned, they spent a lot of time just sitting around shooting the bull with everyone.

Good that they're getting easier as they're getting older. One of these days we'll whip them into shape.

6Y9 is indeed one large (growing) family!

That's for sure! Next year I hope to be able to make the family reunion!

EdFred · Sep 8, 2009

Ted DuPuis said:
Good that they're getting easier as they're getting older. One of these days we'll whip them into shape.

That's for sure! Next year I hope to be able to make the family reunion!

As penance for bailing this year and causing Adam much grief, next year you get to sleep in the swamp.

Ted · Sep 8, 2009

EdFred said:
As penance for bailing this year and causing Adam much grief, next year you get to sleep in the swamp.

But the puppies are SO CUTE!!!

wsuffa · Sep 8, 2009

EdFred said:
As penance for bailing this year and causing Adam much grief, next year you get to sleep in the swamp.

make him sleep in the dog house....

vontresc · Sep 8, 2009

Hey on that note, did someone pick up the kennels that Scott brought up?

gprellwitz · Sep 8, 2009

vontresc said:
Hey on that note, did someone pick up the kennels that Scott brought up?

Ed's going to try to get them to Ted, because they'll be seeing each other pretty soon. Michael just did not have room for them, so Missa couldn't take them. Hopefully, Ed will.

steingar · Sep 8, 2009

Yah, we were full to the brim, and couldn't even take off without shedding some weight. Sorry. I hope they can get to the Dog Pilot in a timely fashion.

ScottM · Sep 8, 2009

vontresc said:
Hey on that note, did someone pick up the kennels that Scott brought up?

singular kennel, I brought one. Grant and Leslie brought the other

gprellwitz said:
Ed's going to try to get them to Ted, because they'll be seeing each other pretty soon. Michael just did not have room for them, so Missa couldn't take them. Hopefully, Ed will.

I *think* the back up plan is if Ed cannot fit them Diz will drive them out of the UP.

gprellwitz · Sep 8, 2009

smigaldi said:
I *think* the back up plan is if Ed cannot fit them Diz will drive them out of the UP.

Yes, but if he can't fit them, he's still left with the question of how to get them from Grand Rapids to PA.

ScottM · Sep 8, 2009

gprellwitz said:
Yes, but if he can't fit them, he's still left with the question of how to get them from Grand Rapids to PA.

The issue was one of a passenger using the back seat for the flight out of 6Y9.

Ted · Sep 8, 2009

wsuffa said:
make him sleep in the dog house....

I already do! As has been commented on by my dogsitter due to my frequent departures from the state, "Ted, you sure have a nice house for your dog to live in."

Missa · Sep 8, 2009

smigaldi said:
The issue was one of a passenger using the back seat for the flight out of 6Y9.

A Passanger who didn't want to be in the Kennel even if he would have fit.

Pjsmith · Sep 8, 2009

smigaldi said:
My arrival at 6Y9

And the same arrival, but from a different vantage point......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QB2BRmlvVQ

(someday I'll learn to work the camera and the handheld radio squelch control at the same time...sorry for the irritating noise!)

ScottM · Sep 8, 2009

Pjsmith said:
And the same arrival, but from a different vantage point......

That is really nice.

One Short · Sep 8, 2009

Here are some of the my pictures from the ride up and at the field.

1. If you fly low and slow, you see things on the ground.
2. I do get higher than the clouds occasionally.
3. Although the tops of the clouds were only about 300ft AGL
4. The Mackinaw Bridge
5 & 6. Lake Superior Shoreline by Grand Marais, MI
7. The Miners Castle at Pictured Rocks Munising MI
8. Grand Island at Munising
9. Sidnaw is NOT the only place there is a gap in the trees. See, Here's one!
10-14. Saturday morning Sunrise at Sidnaw
15. Monday stragglers,(back to front) Clark and his Turbo Dakota, Liz and the Soooper Yoooper Yankee, and me(well actually just my plane).

gprellwitz · Sep 8, 2009

Barb, Number 12 is a POTW! Just be sure you don't submit it when all the others are submitting theirs!

bockwoman3 · Sep 8, 2009

Richard said:
Grant, I vote for your 2nd pic (#3262) as POTW.

That is a pretty awesome pic...background is perfect!

Clark1961 · Sep 8, 2009

Well I made it back to FTG and t-Dak is in the hangar. I'm beat.

Take a look at HRF89V on flightaware for a small taste of the STP to MHK trip. The kink in the flight path involved a conversation with Omaha Approach where the controller mentioned he'd just vectored a Lear around a cell at my twelve o'clock. It was an interesting trip to say the least. Getting into MHK was bumpy, gusty and not much fun for my passenger. Getting back out again was bumpy, gusty and not much fun for me. I did manage to wash the aircraft so I guess it was a two-fer.

Denver wasn't much better than MHK with sigmets to the left and right and a storm in front. The one in front I dodged by a couple miles and then watched it go from green to red on the xm in about fifteen minutes. Important note to self: if the top is popping and it looks like there may be a bit of virga, turn now.

Hayden-half is not happy with the dry air...

el con · Sep 9, 2009

I have the solution to get Ted to come next year.
I'm going to take up a collection of puppies next year, put about 50 of them in the pilot shack as hostages ,and Ted will have to come save them.
If he doesn't we'll have hush puppies on the grill (a U.P. favorite) as a side with the burgers.
Ted ,now are you coming? :ihih:

I know, I'm :loco:

Ted · Sep 9, 2009

Brad, if you organize a rescue flight out of Michigan (not one our standard locations, but hey, we aren't limited to any one place), then that would definitely get me there.

Better might be having a rescue flight TO Michigan! I'll arrive with 10 beautiful examples for the Sidnaw animal shelter.

Missa · Sep 9, 2009

Ted DuPuis said:
Brad, if you organize a rescue flight out of Michigan (not one our standard locations, but hey, we aren't limited to any one place), then that would definitely get me there.

Better might be having a rescue flight TO Michigan! I'll arrive with 10 beautiful examples for the Sidnaw animal shelter.

Ted, you've been to Sidnaw before right?? I don't think they have an animal shelter.

But if they are hunting dogs I'm sure you might find them homes.

gismo · Sep 9, 2009

Missa said:
Ted, you've been to Sidnaw before right?? I don't think they have an animal shelter.

But if they are hunting dogs I'm sure you might find them homes.

If they're cute enough (what puppies aren't cute) they'd probably find rides to various pilot's homes. IOW we wouldn't need no stinkin shelter.

Ted · Sep 9, 2009

1) I know there aren't any animal shelters there, hence the joke

2) Virtually all the animals I transport are really cute. Didn't you see the puppies on the news stories? The kittens were cute, too.

However, I can't just be a roaming adoption center due to various regulations, unfortunately. In fact, even if I find an animal that I want to adopt from the transports I do, I either have to decide before the transport that I want it (from pictures), or else make arrangements to come back to the shelter that received the animal and adopt it then.

wsuffa · Sep 9, 2009

Ted DuPuis said:
The kittens were cute, too.

Ahhhhh! You broke the "no cats on the internet" rule that's in effect today! :cornut:

ScottM · Sep 9, 2009

Ted DuPuis said:
The kittens were cute, too..

wsuffa said:
Ahhhhh! You broke the "no cats on the internet" rule that's in effect today!

Clark1961 · Sep 9, 2009

A few pix from the trip home:

1. Escape from Manhattan (MHK)
2. Washing the aircraft
3. 10.5 somewhere over western Kansas
4. Nope, not going north
5. Hmmm, wonder if I should deviate?
6. DEVIATE!
7. No, I really didn't fly under it.
8. Hayden-half disembarking
9. Hayden-half sets foot in Colorado
10. Hayden-half says, "Quit cleaning the plane, I'm ready for a beer!"

Missa · Sep 9, 2009

Clark1961 said:
A few pix from the trip home:

1. Escape from Manhattan (MHK)
2. Washing the aircraft
3. 10.5 somewhere over western Kansas
4. Nope, not going north
5. Hmmm, wonder if I should deviate?
6. DEVIATE!
7. No, I really didn't fly under it.
8. Hayden-half disembarking
9. Hayden-half sets foot in Colorado
10. Hayden-half says, "Quit cleaning the plane, I'm ready for a beer!"

Hayden-Half???? and you got the bottem?

steingar · Sep 9, 2009

Better you than me, or the number of pieces might have increased dramatically.

One Short · Sep 9, 2009

Missa said:
Hayden-Half???? and you got the bottem?

You were the one that told us "Hayden was BESIDE himself, when he found out Ted wasn't going to be able to make it". Well, he just couldn't seem to pull himself together and ended up in two different planes. Now, he is going to have to travel the world--Looking for himself! :rolleyes2: