tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129046222574251972024-03-13T06:37:09.546-07:00CUB DRIVINGcouleeonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00657679804506943317noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-612904622257425197.post-43507274216402966252010-12-06T15:43:00.000-08:002010-12-06T15:43:45.599-08:00coulee country flying vacation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> FIRST FLYING VACATION AS A FAMILY, A WEEK IN THE COULEE COUNTRY<br />
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Wow, what a fantastic time! A trip through the coulee country of eastern WA! John in his 180hp super cub and myself in my 100hp sport cub left TIW with a lower ceiling and headed for the cascades hoping to find a hole to cross over as we went up the valley before Snoqualime Pass the ceiling gradually rose and there is a notch at the summit that was open enough that we could sneak through and come out on the sunny clear eastern side of the state. <br />
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We dropped down over the Quilicene breaks of the Columbia River and flew a few feet above the river to Crescent Bar where we checked out the very upscale community! There is a point of land past the golf course that was ripe for landing on because it was there! <br />
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We gave the lodge we were staying at on park lake of the sun lakes chain a flyby to let them know to come pick us up at the Coulee City airport WA15. The airport has new owners that were very happy to accommodate us for a few days of tie downs. We bounced around the Banks Lake area that evening landing at Electric City 3W7 and filling up at Wilbur 2S8. Pushing four hours of flying today.<br />
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The next morning we flew to Mansfield 8W3 where the town was having a celebration with a parade. The airport wasn't a half of a block from main street. We had breakfast and decided to stay for the parade, I think most of the town was in the parade! Everyone we talked to treated us like a neighbor that they knew for a long time! Thank God for small town America! It sure was refreshing!<br />
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The evening the wind blew hard enough to worry me over my tie downs but it was all fine. The next morning we took off and headed back to Tacoma direct crossing over Quincy, Crescent bar again , past Ellensburg straight to Stampede Pass where we ran into a cloud cover and had to descend into the valley to get over to the west side of the Cascades ultimately finding a canyon we could fly through under the clouds to cross over to Green River valley and down to the Enumclaw plateau having a lower ceiling,bring us back to the west side of the state! Sixteen hours of flying adventure!!<br />
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CC staff Randy Lervold and Byrce Huges as pilots and Pete Dougherty as briefer with myself working sign ups and coordinating rides we managed to give 30 demo rides! We went in with 20 confirmed pre-signed up and had 16 walk ups sign up. We lost a few due to the wait but still after 30 rides we were all glad to cut it off!<br />
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Everyone that flew came out with a huge smile! It was almost comical watching the folks being dazzled!couleeonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00657679804506943317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-612904622257425197.post-42629351474838817052010-04-21T18:33:00.000-07:002010-04-22T18:03:04.941-07:00Carbon Cub Demo Day at Harvery Field S43 June 5th 2010<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GcuCJMpBqHI/S8-k5pc5ZOI/AAAAAAAAGaw/rLBig3kAu60/s1600/DemoDaysFlyer_vHoover1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GcuCJMpBqHI/S8-k5pc5ZOI/AAAAAAAAGaw/rLBig3kAu60/s640/DemoDaysFlyer_vHoover1.jpg" width="412" wt="true" /></a></div> <br />
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</div>couleeonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00657679804506943317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-612904622257425197.post-87872345605146597762009-12-28T16:58:00.000-08:002010-04-30T16:40:23.448-07:00First student solo today J3 and flight of four taildraggers<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GcuCJMpBqHI/S1XWi0EEhfI/AAAAAAAAGOM/g5t5wQQpTXM/s1600-h/cubs+and+a+champ+formation+mt+rainer.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428480819444614642" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GcuCJMpBqHI/S1XWi0EEhfI/AAAAAAAAGOM/g5t5wQQpTXM/s200/cubs+and+a+champ+formation+mt+rainer.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 133px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GcuCJMpBqHI/S1XV8S8hKAI/AAAAAAAAGOE/MTcpSCGr89s/s1600-h/P1000797.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428480157719537666" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GcuCJMpBqHI/S1XV8S8hKAI/AAAAAAAAGOE/MTcpSCGr89s/s200/P1000797.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GcuCJMpBqHI/S1VKd_RkvQI/AAAAAAAAGN8/7aNL523VkAE/s1600-h/!cid_X_MA2_1262002265%40aol.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428326804926807298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GcuCJMpBqHI/S1VKd_RkvQI/AAAAAAAAGN8/7aNL523VkAE/s200/!cid_X_MA2_1262002265%40aol.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a> I soloed Steve, one of my students today, at Wax Orchard, Vashon Island in his J3, the same place I soloed! This J3 has been in Steve's family since the 1950s and he had it completely rebuilt 2 years ago.<br />
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I rarely see another aircraft come to Wax Orchard when I am there but while I was waiting for Steve to do his 3 solo laps a Champ came in and left and a flight of four tail draggers came in and landed as a flight of 4 , two PA11s, a Champ and a Super cub! Two of the pilots were old friends of mine, Tim Porter and wife Leslie in the CubCrafters rebuilt Super Cub and Marlo Jones and his wife Susan in the copper cub. Steve landed and I introduced him around and we had a great half an hour of visiting!<br />
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It makes your heart swell to have shared a moment in time such as this day! While we were sharing stories another red and white PA11 came in and left and wished he would have stopped! 3 PA11s in the matter of an half an hour how rare! We took off for home base TIW and they took off as a flight of four for pie at Port Orchard, how cool!<br />
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