More photos from a recent cross-country flight with the owner of a newly purchased aircraft.
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| Flying into the setting sun, somewhere over Ohio. Or is that Indiana? |
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| Back home again ... over Indiana, I think. |
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| First overnight stop. |
Overnighting in DeKalb, Illinois provided a unique opportunity: Got to have dinner and breakfast with a good friend and I got to reminisce. This was my first landing at DeKalb in many years. I soloed at this airport, decades ago.
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| Early morning start ... |
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| In my day, there was Rwy 9/27 & no instrument approaches. Now there's Rwy 2/20, too. |
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| Pretty sedate weather over Iowa and Nebraska until heading into Colorado. |
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| Lions & tigers & SIGMETs, Oh my! |
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| Climbing higher in search of a smoother ride. |
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| Departing Denver Centennial, there was a lot of stuff to dodge. |
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| Some deviations, but a mostly smooth ride. |
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| Elected to stay VFR, underneath the stuff the airlines were dodging. |
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| Lots of virga. |
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| Thank goodness for Rosen visors. |
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| Approaching Utah at sunset. |
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| Arriving at our next overnight. |
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| Guess where? |
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| Another early departure ... |
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| Big body of water, in a desert? |
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| Over the Great Salt Lake. |
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| Heading toward Battle Mountain. |
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| Approaching Lovelock. |
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| Pyramid Lake, near the last fuel stop - Reno-Stead. |
Ironically, the bumpiest ride was over the Sierra Mountains. Lots of traffic in the California Central Valley reduced photo opportunities, but we made our arrival into Oakland via a practice approach and this DA42NG's flexibility in approach speeds paid off: A Learjet on a visual approach to the same runway was instructed to follow us. How cool is that?
9 comments:
Nice photos. I would love to hear more about routing choices based on weather, aircraft capabilities, etc.
Last weekend I flew from Minnesota to Virginia, around some pretty big systems in the mid-section of the country on Friday. Having onboard ADS-B weather was very comforting for the strategic data.
John
Hi John,
I do have some thoughts on planning a LONG cross country. I'll see if I can collect them into a post in the next few days.
Looks like a neat layover near SLC - is it Heber City?
Bob,
Excellent guess, but not Herber City.
What engines does this one have?
that is a shinny new airplane! great photos
Christian,
DA42s that have the NG emblems are equipped with the new Austro E4-B engines. The aircraft with the TwinStar emblems have one of the two versions of the infamous Theilert engines.
I refer to it as a "Twin Diamond" when talking to ATC. Some controllers refer to all DA42 as "TwinStar," but in this case it's technically a DA42NG. Oh well ...
Lovely airplane... FIKI?
It's really interesting to see how "socialist" Europe is out-innovating us here in small airplanes...
Yes, the TKS is approved for flight into known icing.
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