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EHM-2155 Mariano:
It's 12 minutes of tuesday the 9th and I just remembered I was supposed to fly with you guys... I'm sorry I didn't turn up, the day was eventful and it just completely slipped my mind.
I'll be flying this leg... "today" afternoon...
Again if I left you waiting, I'm terribly sorry. I should have set some sort of alarm.

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
That's OK, Mariano. We did wait a bit to see if you would show up, but we had enough to sort out with connection problems etc. to only leave at 2000Z anyways. Better luck next time.

We (Bruce T, Trevor, and myself) tried to VFR through the Rockies as planned. Here's an impression of our adventure.

First, a little show-off: our new Jack Wolfskin attire for the division crew :)
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Trevor uses FS9, where I use FSX, so there is a slight mismatch in parking spots.
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Bruce came online, first with FS9, later with FSX. He's the Beech B1900D, so you can tell them apart ;)
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Off we go! into a low-overcast valley. Things start out tense already!
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It looks like it will be valley crawling to stay below cloud.
With Trevor on my 5 o'clock, just past waypoint 1:
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Searching for a way to get OVER the hills, while staying BELOW the clouds...
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Looks like following this highway is going to make life easy for a VFR pilot
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But hey, where did that highway go, all of a sudden?
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Soon, the snow subsided, and we only had fog.
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Then, we had a touch of nice weather again.
BTW, that's Trevor, at my 5 o'clock low.
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Soon to be followed by snow again  :)
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I went in first, but couldn't figure out in time how to capture the ILS on this bird.
So a very low visual approach it was...   :o
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Soon to be followed by Trevor
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And Bruce  :)
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One for the company yearbook  :)
Top to bottom:
EHM-2131 Bruce Thomas
EHM-1829 Trevor Bolton
EHM-2387 Eric-Jan Oud
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As you can see from the last three pictures, I captured the landing of my companions. I made a short movie from that:
EHW leg05.mp4
(best viewed full screen in HD; double-click to play from YouTube directly)


Thanks Bruce and Trevor for the company; hope to see you next time too.
Follow this thread to find out when exactly.

Cheers,
Eric-Jan

EHM-1829 Trevor:

  No problem Mariano, see you on the next leg.

  Nice write-up and pics E-J and to top that, a great paint job.
 
  Their was no chance of weather smoothing on that leg, from t/o to landing all i saw was the instruments. ;D 

EHM-2131 Bruce:
Great pictures and movie Eric-Jan, a great meet up and flight, some exciting weather during the flight, Bruce T.

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
Haha, LOL! Thanks, guys :)

Don't go expecting this kind of report every leg, now. I was tied to the house these last days with an intestinal bacteria thinghy. Higly contagious; even the dog had to suffer it.. But as of tomorrow, I'll be back to work again.

Not sure if leg 6 will be during the weekend, for me, or on Monday evening, again.

For now, let's say Monday 15th, anywhere between 1900Z and 2000Z, like yesterday.
KPIH-KSMN via PIH and LKT VORs. East of Mt. Corruption, then West of Red Point, then along the 93 through the pass to Lehmi. And all that can be done at 5500 ft, if clouds permit ... ;)

See y'all up there!
E-J

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