CO Pilots - Any weekend plans?

nope ... hangar (3) cleaning party Saturday in preparation for Hangar BBQ during BJC Airshow weekend, oil change on the Bonanza Sunday - tons of "honey-dos" plastered above, below and among ...
 
A friend has pointed out that fly-in participants get into the Airshow for free again this year, but I haven't confirmed that... I wonder how parking works...

How does your BBQ setup work... you have to buy a ticket to get to your hangar? :)
 
yes, flyins are free. But check the NOTAM (which was very late being issued because Jim, et al missed the July deadline) for no-fly hours due to the airshow.

Me? Possible PnP rescue flight. If that get's pushed to next week because we can't find anyone for the Dallas to OK leg, then this week is stop by BJC to help with the Colorado Pilots Mtn class for a little while on Sat AM then the EAA301 picnic at FTG.

On the other hand, make an offer.
 
When I hear things like "because they were late" on things like NOTAMs, I start wondering if they have their "you-know-what" together enough to park aircraft without running them into each other. :)

They short-staffed this year? (Probably a dumb question, they're probably short-staffed every year...)
 
denverpilot said:
When I hear things like "because they were late" on things like NOTAMs, I start wondering if they have their "you-know-what" together enough to park aircraft without running them into each other. :)

They short-staffed this year? (Probably a dumb question, they're probably short-staffed every year...)
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I hear rumors and gossip, but it's the same ones every year since Jim took over and moved it to BJC. Remember, everyone is a volunteer. What I really want to see are the financials...(*evil laugh*)

It's not like they didn't know they had scheduled an airshow....
 
denverpilot said:
A friend has pointed out that fly-in participants get into the Airshow for free again this year, but I haven't confirmed that... I wonder how parking works...

How does your BBQ setup work... you have to buy a ticket to get to your hangar? :)
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Tenants are "supposed" to get access to their hangars, but someone usually ends up having a long discussion with at least one traffic control attendant every year.
 
Round tripped RWL this morning. Work related.

Up for either Sidney or other breakfast flight tomorrow...
 
Work. I need to get the hell out of this evil FL-AL-GA triangle I seem to be stuck in this week. Shwacked two birds in less than 24 hours down here.
 
Sorry, can't do breakfast tomorrow. Gotta go pick up the zombie Jetta. ;) Karen has stuff to do tomorrow PM.
 
Got home way too late tonight to think about breakfast, besides I'm "available" again after my down-for-10...
 
On the other hand, I am off tomorrow (Sunday) if anyone is interested in breakfast or something else. Obviously I can't provide any transportation other than my rented Chevy.
 
Was thinking about going up tomorrow. Right now just vegging watching the silly pre-season football game.
 
I'm up for an early flight.

My hangar, 8 a.m.?
 
Buena Vista? Salida? Don't know what is available, especially on a Sunday. Murphey?
 
I'll see if I'm awake and alive.

Headed to bed shortly, but it's still hot in here... forgot to open up the upstairs earlier. (Karen is up there buried under a comforter, that girl's thermostat is broken.)

Was out in the garage working on some stuff... been collecting radio junk for helping out the guy who's feeding DEN to LiveATC...

Going to see if my house can cover some of it to free up his closer location for less frequencies per scanner (or whatever he wants to do... )

I just felt like rebuilding my feed node and no point in rebuilding without upgrading? Haha. Adding a multi-port sound card and additional scanners. Have the original RS Pro-97, and added a BC780XLT and a BC350A (the latter not being all that good for AM Aircraft but it was free...).

Testing out the BC780XLT on the KAPA TWR feed right now, and it's living up to its receiver sensitivity legend (didn't measure it with the service monitor yet, but won't bother... It's smoking the Pro-97 on what's still a marginal antenna...) and analog audio quality.

Slight power supply hum in the audio right now due to using the wall wort, but that'll go away when the DC powered computer is installed, all the grounds are tied together, and the whole thing is running off of a monster surplus UPS battery.

Meanwhile it already makes the feed sound better. Audio fidelity is wicked good, although since all of the feeds are low bandwidth compressed heavily you can't really hear how awesome it sounds. ;)

The BC350A was this evening's project to get it up and running on a good antenna and see how it performed. It's not good. Ha. Oh well.

Still hunting for more radios. Should be able to do about four separate feeds with this sound card from one Linux box. That's nice.

Could make that eight with left/right channel diversity. Hmm. Need a lot more scanners/receivers for that. :)

Anyway, will go try to snooze.
 
Clark called this AM. Karen was busy studying so we bowed out. I think they went up to Salida.

We're thinking about seeing if the Italian restaurant at the airport is open in Garden City, KS. Scout it out for a future fly-out perhaps?

That is if Karen ever gets her paper done for school here. Ha.
 
By the way, it's called Napoli's at the Flight Deck, and is open tonight until 9PM if anyone wants to make it a dinner flight instead.

Never been there. Kansas Italian Food. Heh.
 
Went to the CPA fly-in Sheridan, WY this weekend. More to Sheridan than I thought. Had around 20 folks and 12 planes. Smooth flight both ways but Friday was very smokey. Vis got under 10 once in awhile:wink2:. Back up to 50+ today.
 
denverpilot said:
Clark called this AM. Karen was busy studying so we bowed out. I think they went up to Salida.

We're thinking about seeing if the Italian restaurant at the airport is open in Garden City, KS. Scout it out for a future fly-out perhaps?

That is if Karen ever gets her paper done for school here. Ha.
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And I got the wake-up call from Mari, actually, she called 5 min after the other wake-up call so I was already awake.

Perhaps next week or early September.
 
ejensen said:
Went to the CPA fly-in Sheridan, WY this weekend. More to Sheridan than I thought. Had around 20 folks and 12 planes. Smooth flight both ways but Friday was very smokey. Vis got under 10 once in awhile:wink2:. Back up to 50+ today.
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Photos & a short (or long) write-up please for the newsletter. Get it to me by Tues night and it'll be in the Sept. issue.
 
Made it to Salida - got distracted by some balloons on the way over. It seemed the balloons were terrified by the arrival of the Frankenkota overhead and proceeded to immediately land and fall on their sides. Or maybe it was the yellow Cub looking thing that was actually at their altitude that scared'em.

After a pleasant meal by the river, Mari found the perfect Twinkie for Kent at 04V. It's a bit of a "fixer-upper" but the price is right. Maybe she'll post pictures...
 
View from the cantina by the river.

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I don't know whether it was more popular with the kayakers or with the dogs. I should have taken a picture of the dogs fetching stuff out of the river.

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Here's the airplane for you, Kent! It's been waiting patiently for almost a year. I looked up the NTSB report on it. I'm sure the damage will just buff right out...

http://dms.ntsb.gov/aviation/AccidentReports/hxhtnpixoddru345j1wpsfj21/I08192012120000.pdf
 
ejensen said:
Went to the CPA fly-in Sheridan, WY this weekend. More to Sheridan than I thought. Had around 20 folks and 12 planes. Smooth flight both ways but Friday was very smokey. Vis got under 10 once in awhile:wink2:. Back up to 50+ today.
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Did you go to the airshow in Powell on Saturday? We saw a little preview in Cody on Friday afternoon. I think they were trying to drum up business.

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Might have but no one mentioned it. Couple very nice little museums, good food and friends.
 
We ended up not going anywhere. Hrumph.

Oh well. I got a radio project done in the garage I started four years ago or so when I uninstalled that radio from the Jeep when it went to its new home with my little sister. I knew it had problems so it sat in a box for four years.

Been hammering through back logged radio projects trying to clear the workbench for the big Yukon radio install project. Not allowing myself to buy parts for that project until the bench is cleared! :)

Opened up, cleaned, and troubleshot some problems with my old Kenwood TM-732A, originally purchased new in 1992 and still going. Took it all apart, cleaned it, replaced broken VHF pigtail/connector (upgraded to N-connectors on both sides, might as well upgrade to real connectors while repairing!), took the control head apart and cleaned it out, and then mounted it as the "garage radio".

Yay. Only took four years. ;)

Programmed in all the Centennial and Buckley frequencies as well as all the Ham stuff I do, and some CAP stuff (monitor only). Man the old Kenwoods have nice quiet and sensitive AM Aircraft receivers. The newer stuff I has sounds like crap on AM Aircraft.

So now I have a nice working radio listening to all my favorite stuff out in the garage. Good for the next project, bench testing and programming all the stuff that's going in the Yukon. :)
 
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