Daily Pic

[wilkersk]

Ok, get tired or horking around a stupid big lens on a tripod with my tiny D3200 camera body hanging on the back - Break out the old iPhone 15 and shoot video!

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[Domenick]

Playing around with a new lens today. It was HFM's last fly day of the season.

What's the new lens?

 

[wilkersk]

What's the new lens?

A new-to-me Nikkor 200-500 AF-S.

 

[Rick A]

Pic taken over Virginia while timing the arrival at home base (LNS) to stay behind a batch of nasty weather progressing slowly northeast bound. The entire trip up from the Charlotte NC region was conducted entirely in VMC.

 

[AV8R_87]

Kentmorr Airpark (3W3) is always a nice place to stop for crabs and crabcakes. The marina restaurant changed hands and names again, but food is still good.

 

[Ventucky Red]

Cloud cover in Sunny Southern California... sometime it pays to get up early




Visiting us (KCMA) for a few days



Upper right corner, Catalina Island from the FIM VOR... while getting in the holds

 

[ArrowFlyer86]

Some photos from departure day from 6Y9 fly in. Planned a day trip with MarkR from the 6Y9'er fly in, flying separately (arrow+rv6). Went over to Land of Lakes for fuel. Then another RAF strip, Hanley, on lake superior (5Y7). Then down to North Fox Island (6Y3) for some beach hiking and swimming, then to Oconto (OCQ) then back home. Full day! 10/10 would recommend.

Enroute to Hanley. I hadn't heard of that airport before but it was a great 4000' grass strip with among the nicest courtesy cars I've ever gotten.


Going 'feet wet' near Schoolcraft (ISQ) enroute to the island


Beaver Island in the background


N. Fox Island (population=4). Me + my plane, Mark + his RV6, and a couple who were there in a 310).
Probably the closest you'll ever come to having a private island to yourself!


Walking the beach around Fox Island


Island to yourself. Water temp was surprisingly pleasant. A nice 45 min-ish dip into the crystal clear water.


Should probably get back to main land before sunset...


Back over Wisconsin, done fueling and enroute home. Night landing back in Chicagoland.

 

[GeorgeC]

Lunch at KEZF.

 

[Plano Pilot]

We were at KEZF and had lunch there several months ago. We went to the museum and got a tour of the DC-3.

 

[AV8R_87]

The original standalone post got lost when HAL (our anti-bot software) went crazy. As it appears all that stuff is lost forever, I'll just repost it here.

Decided to commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11 by flying there. My passenger was there that day and saw it happen. Things got a bit emotional.

 

[Rick A]

Starting on down...

 

[Rick A]

And just like that... IMC nothingness to beautiful VMC.

 

[david wall]

Somewhere over the North Atlantic

 

[ColinD]

Bump

 

[Flyhound]

Foggy days here around Puget Sound

 

[Skyrys62]

Some morning fog around the rivers here too. Love this time of year.

 

[AV8R_87]

Airborne sunsets are the best.

 

[Flyhound]

Despite the fog, I was able to fly in to Whidbey Airpark for breakfast at Coffee at Dawn:

 

[Pugs]

Flyby of Mount Washington this am. Enough snow already plowing the auto road.

 

[mowog]

Downtown LA this evening

 

[Domenick]

Despite the fog, I was able to fly in to Whidbey Airpark for breakfast at Coffee at Dawn:View attachment 155820

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I like Whidbey Air Park (W10), but haven't been there in a long time. At takeoff, passengers can get nervous watching those 150' trees get closer and closer and closer ... very entertaining.

 

[Kitch]

While you guys were having fun at Gastons we got "stuck" flying around Cape Cod... I did have my Gastons hat on though

 

[AV8R_87]

Philadelphia skyline at sunrise:

 

[hindsight2020]

I realize this is the second time I post a memorial flyover on this thread (7 years, man time flies, ugh). This time for a personal friend and former coworker, which hit harder. It was a tough day. United Pilot, over 3k in the T38, his son is currently a buff driver himself in my old unit. Beautiful family, gone much too soon. Cancer sucks. I was honored to have led his Missing Man over Ft Sam Houston. Godspeed Webs.