wet departures
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tonycondon
Gastons CRO (Chief Dinner Reservation Officer)
not too bad mike. I can't believe no one got a picture of my takeoff in the AzTruck. I didn't really mean too but I ended up blasting through that huge puddle in the middle of the runway at takeoff power. I of course could only see the front of the rooster tail but I'm told that the back of the airplane was not visible.
gismo
Touchdown! Greaser!
I thought I was far enough to the right to miss the water but I must have been a bit too close.
CJones
Final Approach
There was a 'new' hidden water hole to the right of the original water/mud hole this morning. I'm guessing it has morphed from 'water hole' to 'mud hole' after departures this morning.
bbchien
Touchdown! Greaser!
I was very very light this AM with 31 gallons of fuel and myself or 1150 undergross. So I lit out from the East end of the flightline and missed the wet.
About 1/4 mile from the N. End of BPK was a fog bank. So landed to the north. Just didn't have the heart to fly to get cheap fuel, but they are trying that struggling little FBO. $3.98/g.
About 1/4 mile from the N. End of BPK was a fog bank. So landed to the north. Just didn't have the heart to fly to get cheap fuel, but they are trying that struggling little FBO. $3.98/g.
Richard
Final Approach
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Ack...city life
Looks like fun. How many of you consulted your POH for takeoff roll on wet turf? If so, what factor did you add to the performance numbers?
Tristar
Pattern Altitude
Our POH doesn't say anything about lake takeoffs. 
I have a feeling everyone will be washing their plane shortly after arriving home. We hoped to fly through a light rain shower to wash it off but we missed all the precip.
I have a feeling everyone will be washing their plane shortly after arriving home. We hoped to fly through a light rain shower to wash it off but we missed all the precip.
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Honestly, I did not. I did, however, fly it light over to the paved runway at BPK, and shuttled there in the van for load-up and flight home. Had no trouble at all getting out.
EdFred
Taxi to Parking
I was way under gross in my Comanche, but I threw in 18° of flaps once I got to 60MphIAS, and she jumped off the runway like it was dry a couple seconds later.. I also took off from about where Lance hand parked his Baron, and where I originally parked on Friday, so the water wasn't an issue, and I was well up over the guardpost trees on departure.
tonycondon
Gastons CRO (Chief Dinner Reservation Officer)
i only had 10ish gallons in the 172, and it was me and leah (110 lbs soaking wet). with 10deg flaps i cleared the trees at the end by probably 100 feet. the runway was still pretty firm, past the big puddles near the parking area.
Diana
Final Approach
We flew through a shower about 20 miles east of Gaston's, but it didn't clean the underside of the struts like I'd hoped.
Plus we had a wet arrival at the farm...the ditch was wet and we splashed more mud on the airplane.
Diana
Final Approach
Wayne, see what I mean about getting disoriented???? 
Missa
En-Route
We flew through a shower about 20 miles east of Gaston's, but it didn't clean the underside of the struts like I'd hoped.
You would have needed to turn it upside down for that... too bad you were too full for Acro on the way home.
flyingcheesehead
Touchdown! Greaser!
Me too
Oh I forgot, I was being nice by not being to close to those in/by the tent.
Yes, it was a mud hole. Pete and I waited until fairly late (12:10 or so) to depart, right behind Prellwitz Air and Greg's 195. The tents were gone and Pete pulled the picnic tables back against the hedge row so that we had quite a bit of extra room on the right where we could go without traversing the mud hole.
