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What did you do with your RV this weekend? (1/1/22 - 1/2/22)

Just garden variety instrument flight and approaches to 500ft mins. Coupled LPV 15 to HWY for gas, then manually-controlled LP 33 HWY, missed, ILS 16L HEF full stop. It's unseasonably warm here, so no ice concerns.
 
Attempted to fly to KHII for an RV flyout but unfortunately the winds were too strong at Havasu for safe landing. It was still an enjoyable out-and-return on New Years Day.

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-Marc
 
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Flight up the WA coast

Flight from my home base 56S up the WA coast / Olympic wildlife refuge then over the Olympic mountains - beautiful.
 

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Glenn organized a 7-ship Sydney Harbour Scenic, with Martin, Brayden, Pete, Kevin, Eddie and me. Anne-Marie, Kelly, Jordan, Don and (Pete's mate whose name I can't remember) as pax.

A minute and a half of HD youtube off my GoPro, held by Jordan, my passenger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-mGrOC03Ko

Anne-Marie did her usual splendid (award winning!) photography work.

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Some of us spent the rest of the day being pinged by friends on the ground on social media who'd looked up at just the right time:

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Last time we tried this we had fewer airplanes and the sky was full of wildfire smoke so we couldn't see anything. This one does a bit more justice to the most beautiful harbour in the world.

Leaving the Harbour: Martin's RV-7 foregrounding a helicopter towing a banner-ad for a TV show.

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Climbing out of Broken Bay to join the Sydney metropolitan VFR lane of entry to Bankstown.

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Bankstown runway 11C final approach:

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- mark
 
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Dream to be Mark

I dream to be like Mark who posted above.

Glassing elevator tips.
 

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The 1st of the year was a miserable day for flying but the second was much improved!!

I attempted to duplicate the flight of SpaceShipTwo and nearly nailed it!

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Fun RV-10 Building Day

This weekend flying weather was horrible in the Mid-Atlantic but it was good weather for building on Rich and Nhu-An's RV-10 at Essex Skypark, Maryland. Today was the first day of sitting in the plane! Nhu-An has a serious RV grin. Rich, in the pink shirt, looks pretty happy too. Currently we are working on #37 Fuel System and #38 Rudder Pedals and Brake Systems.
 

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Young Eagles

Had the pleasure of giving the gift of flight to three more youngsters at our Chapters pancake breakfast and Young Eagle event. We flew a total of 19 today.
 

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