So that's where they they put El Paso!

AggieMike88

AggieMike88

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The original "I don't know it all" of aviation.
Did an "Iron Butt" 9-hour round trip PnP flight to ELP and back in the Skylane today. My longest flight duty day so far. Had a young pilot go with and we both had a good time and practiced some good flying skills.

Very nice VMC flight go out there

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And a lot of "Dodge the Buildups and Thunder" on the way back.

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I know we have a few folks on PoA who live out there. If I had contact info I woulda reached out.

@Let'sgoflying! ... you're in Marfa? I waved in your genera direction as I went past. And the group out there mentioned they have a big need for PnP missions between ELP region and DFW. Let me know if you are interested in helping and I'll get you their contact info.
 
AggieMike88 said:
Did an "Iron Butt" 9-hour round trip PnP flight to ELP and back in the Skylane today. My longest flight duty day so far. Had a young pilot go with and we both had a good time and practiced some good flying skills.

If I had contact info I woulda reached out.

@Let'sgoflying! ... you're in Marfa? I waved in your genera direction as I went past. And the group out there mentioned they have a big need for PnP missions between ELP region and DFW. Let me know if you are interested in helping and I'll get you their contact info.
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Dang Mike, I'll send you contact info in PM. Am guessing you were picking up dogs? My sister volunteers at the westside animal shelter, and a lot of those are getting sent to Tuscon. She was upset to hear I switched from a 4 seat to a 2 seat RV:confused:;)
 
That weather map doesn't do justice to the way the skies looked here late yesterday afternoon. Glad you were able to dodge everything.
 
danhagan said:
Dang Mike, I'll send you contact info in PM. Am guessing you were picking up dogs? My sister volunteers at the westside animal shelter, and a lot of those are getting sent to Tuscon. She was upset to hear I switched from a 4 seat to a 2 seat RV:confused:;)
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The sending group was the El Paso chapter of http://www.texasoesrescue.org/ But the passengers were 2.5 week old labradoodle puppies that were rejected by momma dog and dumped on the rescue's doorstep. I was picking them up in El Paso to bring back to Doodle Rock Rescue (http://www.doodlerockrescue.org/) here in Dallas.

The trip back was a really good chance of exercising communication skills with the controllers to request deviations left right up and more up to keep in blue sky.
 
danhagan said:
That weather map doesn't do justice to the way the skies looked here late yesterday afternoon. Glad you were able to dodge everything.
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We departed ELP about 12:30 MST. Here is a screen shot from FF with our filed route. After Pecos, we amended our route to stay between the SIGMETs. Still had to do some digging and zagging.

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I've lost count how many times I did the I-20 trip between El Paso and Dallas. Glad that's over. Anytime I have to do that again, it'll be in the airplane.
 
Lachlan said:
How come that mix is called a "Labradoodle" and not " Poo Retriever?"
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Probably because whoevers poodle ***** got mounted by a golden lab stud Needed a creative way to unload those mutts on Craigslist and the stupid CL shoppers thought it was a new exotic breed! I also think people actually like saying labradoodle as in invokes a WTF is that convo and then they get to tell you all about their elfin mutt like it's a show dog.
 
I think it’s just another mutt, but it was a funny line in “Dumb and Dumber.” ;)
 
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