Hmmm, where should we fly today? Funky clouds to the south. Grey skies to the east. Mostly blue skies to the north and west. Let's go northwest! === Cle Elum Lake Easton State ESW Airport Easton State Airport (viewed from the north) ") Snoqualmie Falls and Mount Si Snoqualmie and North Bend, WA Snoq...
It was perfect weather for a flight today. No wind. Temps in the 50's. I attached the GoPro to capture the autumn scenery and also record how fast I could make a flight from Yakima to Sunnyside to Prosser to Sunnyside and back to Yakima. Three airports and four landings. Unfortunately, the camera pi...
The boss let me leave work early today (HA!) so what better excuse is there to go flying? I hoped that the Washington fall colors were coming into bloom in the Cascades and surrounding towns. I like seeing the autumncolored leaves while driving, so seeing them from above must be spectacular. I've al...
One of the nice things of owning an airplane is that on days like today you can decide spurofthemoment to fly to places such as, oh, Mount Rainier! And if that airplane is a Wittman Tailwind you can do it fast and cheap (relatively speaking). So that's where I flew to today, around Mount Rainier. Ro...
The weather was good today so I spent a half hour working on my wheel landings. Nothing too exciting, but I am getting the feel for it and I like how the videos turned out. I had the airspace all to myself so the tower let me do abbreviated patterns which means one landing about every three minutes...
I've been an aircraft owner for three weeks now, but haven't been home long enough to take the Tailwind for an enjoyable flight since returning from my KYtoWA cross country. After missing out on some beautiful weather yesterday and the day before, I decided that today I'm getting up early and making...