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The county was prompt on getting me the application, so not expecting problems. I just didn’t want to fill out the application wrong.Thanks.

Somehow I missed the important phrase “recreational flying” in all of that. #_# Thanks!

I have a plane that qualifies, and I can display it 12 days a year. The application also asks: “Do you use the aircraft for any general transportation or commercial purposes?” The application doesn’t define “general transportation” but the BoE has published a to county assessors (which probably...

I've found the WHP controllers to be pretty great in the last few years. Weird that they didn't acknowledge the clearance request. I've found that they like to get me taxi'd to the runup, then give me the clearance there. But they always ack. Sometimes **** happens I guess. If they're being...

I don’t think it’s an MVA thing. The terrain is actually higher at GMN than LHS, and the MVA at LHS is 9000 (or 11000) depending on which controller you believe. I’ve done this a bunch since asking my original question, and while I’m just a sample size of 1, they seem to always vector you to...

Thanks. So far, I do that trip fairly regularly, and so far, I’ve managed to get out VFR every time, but I figure eventually that luck will run out. The clouds seem to have been hanging out later in the day this week too. Anyhow, yes, the departure procedure itself is easy enough to...

Super helpful. Thanks.

Got a SID/routing question I’m hoping someone can help with. Departing WHP headed to the Bay Area (LVK). The WHITE1 departure has a climbing right turn to VNY, then a climbing left turn *back to VNY* from where you can depart on course when above the MEA. There isn’t an airway the way I’d...

Lol, zoomies/POTUS... headed to the same event. :-) Thanks for the advice.

Hey all, I'm headed to COS, and waffling on whether to fly myself or commercial. I've flown to Boulder & Greeley before, following a route that was vaguely following I80 but a little more direct (thanks to advice from folks here). For COS, it doesn't look like flying further south makes it any...

Down. Bought an M20J last year with about 160tt, ~10hrs in a different M20J. A year and 120 hrs later in my own plane, it dropped about a thousand; ~25%.

Thanks all for the recommendations. I recently did this flight. My route was: KLVK-HNW-KTVL-LLC-BQU-BVL-SLC-KRKS. After a short fuel stop at Rock Springs, direct GXY. I chose to mostly follow highways, US-50 over the sierras, then I-80. I planned to follow 80 all the way to Medicine Bow, but...

@murphey thanks. Very generous. I'll reach out as it gets closer. Actual date is really at the mercy of weather.

@murphey yep.

It was over 7 the southern way, but I was rounding up. The northern route looks better. Yep. I think I forgot to mention it in my original post, but my plan is to be wheels up at around 05:30 (if weather allows).

@murphey, avionics. Not staying. Flying commercial DEN>OAK. Doing the reverse trip the work is done. I might go visit fam in Co Springs for a day or so after dropping the plane off.

@NordicDave are you saying that in general, or recommending I change my route (it’s def not direct). @MDunlevie yeah, I already looked at the Denver fly chart. I’m used to seeing published transitions at bravos and didn’t see any on the TAC but there are published VFR flyways. Seemed like...

In early June, I'm planning a trip from the SF Bay Area (KLVK) to Greeley (KGXY) to drop the plane off for some upgrades. The objective is to get there (as opposed to sightseeing along the way, though a small diversion or two isn't a deal breaker). It doesn't need to be a single day, and I have...

I don’t actually know if anyone funded the film as a hit piece, but the filmmaker, Rory Kennedy, is a renowned, multi-award winning documentary filmmaker. She is accomplished enough, connected enough, and probably wealthy enough that she could have funded it herself regardless of who eventually...

Same here. Apple Watch in the plane is fully unreliable as a pulseoximeter. When I use it stationary outside of a car/plane, It reads similar to the finger pulseoximeter, but it just doesn’t work when there’s any vibration or movement. Upside: the finger units are super cheap.