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We were on descent back into Fullerton (KFUL) when a flock of 8 seagulls flashed past us. There wasn't any time for reaction. Thankfully they all dove away and there was no bird strike. The advice to avoid bird strikes is to "fly high" but eventually you must descend. The statistics say 90% of bird strikes occur below 3,000' AGL (above ground level). The other advice is not to fly under a bird and not to dive. A bird's natural instinct when threatened is to dive. Content 00:00 - Intro 00:10 - LAX 00:20 - Alondra Park 00:30 - Compton/Woodley Airport 00:53 - "Woah! Birds!" 01:10 - Slo-Mo 01:28 - "Did we get any guts on us?"
Flying Past a Flock of Seagulls at 170+ mph
Marie Osmond put on an incredible concert with the Utah Tech Orchestra for their 20th Annual Fire and Ice Gala which provides scholarships for needs-based students. My youngest son Jarom had the trumpet solo and nailed it! Marie gave him a shout out at the end of the number. 🙂 ----- Content ----- 00:00 - Intro 00:05 - Vocals 01:11 - Trumpet Solo 01:30 - Vocals 02:10 - Shout Out - "Jarom Stand Up" :)
Marie Osmond and Utah Tech University Orchestra - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Wolf Creek Ski area is a hidden gem. Family owned with great skiing and small crowds. Here's a run from the top of the Treasure Stoke lift to Charity Jane taking Pitch's Gate and Orion's Beltway.
Wolf Creek Ski Area - Treasure Stoke to Charity Jane via Pitch's Gate and Orion's Beltway
A 4 hour drive, or 1 hour flight, you make the call. Join me on the camping and fishing trip to the Kern Valley airport on the banks of Lake Isabella. The West Coast Mooney Club had a fly-in campout and were joined the second night by some members of the San Diego 99's. The weather was perfect, the campfire conversations were great, and the river was beautiful. I had three fish on the hook but didn't land any, but as the song says, "A bad day of fishin' beats a good day of anything else." Full write up on the trip over on my blog. Also, consider signing up for the monthly newsletter, no spam, no sharing your email, just good stories. https://intothesky.com/2023/10/18/west-coast-mooney-club-kern-valley-campout-and-fly-in/ Music: The Fishin' Hole by Andy Griffith Talking Fishing Blues by Woody Guthrie Bad Day of Fishin' by Billy Currington ----- Content ----- 00:00 - Intro 00:51 - Picking up flight following 01:33 - Departure 02:00 - Enroute 02:55 - Approach 03:36 - Final and Landing 04:12 - Campsite 04:22 - Fishing 04:37 - Campfire 04:52 - Morning and breakfast 05:37 - More fishing 05:57 - Relaxation
I flew myself to the Kern River to go fishing.
A lesson in how not to call up the Tower on first contact. There are three call ups in the video. The first is Riverside and he had to drag out all the information from me. Looking back on the calls it makes me look like a student pilot on their first cross-country solo. Slightly embarrassing as I'm almost 1000 hours into flying. The second two, Chino and Ontario, are much better examples of what to do on first call up to the tower. The amount of radio time taken to convey the same information is greatly reduced. Check out my blog for stories on hundreds of flights and sign up for the monthly newsletter! https://www.intothesky.com -----Content--- 00:00 - Intro 01:19 - Initial Callup to Riverside Tower 01:41 - Explanation of next call 02:43 - "He's going to hate me" 04:01 - Proper Callup explanation 04:16 - Chino Tower Callup and landing 05:29 - Ontario Tower Callup and landing
"He's Going to Hate Me... "
Quick little video of could surfing on a flight from Southern California to Utah. https://intothesky.com/
Cloud Surfing #Shorts
Some of the best views flying are breaking out of the clouds. We took off into an overcast sky just before dawn from Fullerton (KFUL). The cloud base was at about 2,900'. After around 10 minutes of flying in the clouds we broke out into an incredible sunrise at 6,100'! The sun was coming in between the layers with the light reflecting off the layer of clouds below onto the layer still above us, it was breathtaking! For purposes of the video the clearance is cut down. What does a full clearance sound like? You can read the transcription below. The tower at Fullerton was closed so I called up ATC on my cellphone connected to my headset via Bluetooth through my PMA450B audio panel. At first he had a hard time locating it, but finally found it. All the numbers are spelled out because that is how you read it. For example, 1015E is read as one-zero-one-five-echo. ATC: “Hello” Me: “Hello, Mooney one-zero-one-five-echo, on the ground at Fullerton ready to copy IFR.” ATC: “Standby” ATC: “And you filed the route to where?” Me: “Provo, Papa Victor Uniform.” ATC: “Papa Victor Uniform, and what’s your type aircraft?” Me: “It’s a Mooney M20 Papa.” ATC: “And you’re at Fullerton, looking, what’s the name of that airport?” Me: “Provo Municipal, in Utah.” ATC: “Provo, ok, and you filed, uh, when did you file? I’m looking for it. Right now I don’t see anything, one-zero-one-five-echo.” Me: “Yeah, one-zero-one-five-echo, I filed yesterday evening, it was showing accepted for a six am departure, we’re a little behind here.” (It was about 6:20am but ATC holds them up to two hours after departure time.) ATC: “Roger, standby, let me see if I can pull it up here.” About 10 seconds later ATC: “I pulled it up, let me double check that it’s good.” Me:” Thanks.” Another 20 seconds ATC: “All right sir, I have your clearance, you ready to copy?” Me: “Affirmative” ATC: “one-five-echo, you going to be departing off of runway two-four?” Me: “Affirmative” ATC: “One-five-echo, you’re cleared to Papa Victor Uniform via radar vectors to Anaheim One departure, Hector, Bravo Lima Delta, Mike Mike Mike, Foxtrot Foxtrot Uniform, direct. Climb maintain two thousand, you can expect eleven thousand one-zero minutes after departure, squawk seven-three-three-seven, and entering controlled airspace fly heading one-two-zero, off runway two-four and your climb to two thousand you can expect radar vectors to join the Anaheim One departure.” Me: “Okay, cleared Papa Victor Uniform, on departure left turn to heading one-two-zero, radar vectors for the Anaheim One departure, Hector, Bravo Lima Delta, Mike Mike Mike, Foxtrot Foxtrot Uniform, direct, climb maintain two thousand, expect one-one thousand one-zero minutes after departure, frequency 125.35, squawk seven-three-three-seven.” (He hadn’t given me the frequency but I already knew it from all the other times I have left KFUL) ATC: “Readback correct, are you ready to go?” Me: “Affirmative, about a minute to get taxied down to the end of the runway.” ATC: “Standby.” ATC: “Alright, one-five-echo, released for departure runway two-four, clearance void if not off by one-three-three-zero (13:30z), time now one-three-two-six and one half (13:26:30z).” Me: “Cleared for departure two-four, void if not off by one-three-three-zero, one-five-echo.” ATC: “Talk to you in a minute.” So come along for the ride into the sunrise! Music: Rainy Sundays by The 126ers https://intothesky.com/ -------Content------- 00:00 - Intro 00:43 - Clearance 01:42 - Take off 02:15 - IMC 02:50 - Sunrise
I can't get over the sun and clouds!
2023 Fisk Arrival into Oshkosh. Tower extended our downwind to follow in a flight of three Yaks. Normally, when you are on downwind, you wait for the plane on final to pass before turning base, but this is Osh, and things aren’t normal. The planes had not yet passed off our wing, they were still out in front of us when ATC called up. ATC: “Mooney turn base now.” I began the turn to base at a time that would have the tower at home yelling at me. ATC: “Mooney, you’re following a flight of three Yaks over the shoreline, you have them insight?” Me: “Affirmative.” ATC: “Roger, cleared to land ooonnnn the orange dot, runway 27.” Read the full writeup of the trip there and the Fisk Arrival on my blog. If you would like my monthly newsletter straight to your inbox please subscribe to it on my blog and get some free stickers. 🙂 https://intothesky.com/2023/09/01/oshkosh-2023-the-journey-there/ -------Content------- 00:00 - Intro - Puckaway Lake Transition 00:27 - Looking for traffic to follow 01:24 - "What's this guy doing here?" 01:59 - "That guy is going to descend in between people" 02:11 - "Low-wing half mile south of Fisk rock your wings" 03:25 - "Mooney over the gravel pit start your descent" 03:55 - "Mooney extend downwind I'll call your turn" 04:30 - "Mooney turn base now" 05:30 - "Mooney you are cleared to land on the Orange Dot"
Oshkosh 2023 - Cleared to land on the Orange Dot (with ATC Comms)
Approaching KOGD almost on a straight in to 03 we had been given instructions to enter a right downwind for 18. Just under 2 miles from the end of 03, at 5,400’ MSL (KOGD sits at 4,473’) and slowing down to make a left turn onto the downwind tower called up. Tower: “Mooney 1015 Echo, winds are calm, do you want runway three?” Me: (After a quick glance at my location and the 8,000’+ length of 03) “Sure, we can do whatever is easiest for you.” Tower: “Mooney 1015 Echo, runway three, cleared to land.” Me: “Runway three, cleared to land, 15 Echo.” I am sure that he figured it was easier for me to come straight in and it also kept me out of the area that he had two guys on practice approaches. I pulled the power, slowed to 120 mph, threw out the gear, put the left rudder to the floor, and began an elevator ride down in a full sideslip. The VSI was pegged but Flight Aware showed my last two hits at 1,273 fpm and 1,676 fpm. With 8,170’ of runway to work with I wasn’t concerned, and we touched down about halfway down and rolled out to the end.
Last Minute Runway Change - Full Side Slip to landing
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