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***Trans - Canada Adventure Leg 19*** (Read 456 times)

Jan 5^th, 2004 at 12:06pm

Cherokee_6 Offline
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Hello Everyone!

After enjoying a few days fishing on the Skeena River, it was time to pack up and keep heading south.
I was looking forward to this leg of the trip because my destination was Courtenay, B.C. Home of the infamous Rifleman and Stormy!
I had seen lots of pictures of their local airport and thought it would be an interesting airstrip to land at! It seemed to have lots of beautiful scenery, so I dialed in CAH3 into my GPS and headed out!

Route map so far....

I had realized on this take-off that I have accumulated alot of souveniers on this adventure! Now after loading all my fresh fish on board, it was little slow getting off the ground! (not to mention that this is very short runway!)

I could tell that I was getting closer to Vancouver Island due the snowy peaks were becoming less and less...instead there was some actual green landscape to enjoy! Nice.........

Due the massive tail wind I had all the way, I arrived at Courtenay alot sooner then expected! I was able to cruise at 220 knts! Nice town! Grin

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Because I was so early, I did not think that Ken would be there to meet me yet, so I got permission to do a low fly-by to see if he was around...and...there they were! Him and Stormy out for an afternoon stroll! Grin

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I circled around and came in for final. As I got closer and closer to the runway, I realized that this was not going to be a walk in the park! This was a TINY airstrip that is awefully close to the beach!

I was glad that Ken was able to take this shot of my approach! I thought for a second that I was going to have do another go around!

I was able to safely get her down and get her parked...I shut everything down and headed out to go have that beer with Ken that he promised me!

The next leg will be my final leg of this adventure!
I plan to stay here for a few days and do some sight seeing and then it will straight back to Calgary!

Thanks for watching! Comments/Suggestions always welcome...

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Reply #1 - Jan 5^th, 2004 at 12:15pm

britannia Offline
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Great pictures. I will keep an eye out for the next leg.

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Reply #2 - Jan 5^th, 2004 at 12:27pm

awash2002 Offline
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Me to don't you love FS2002

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Reply #3 - Jan 5^th, 2004 at 1:27pm

Donnie111 Offline
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Doesn't that take an awfull lot of time? Wink

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The Ring&&The Place To Be!!!!!

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Reply #4 - Jan 5^th, 2004 at 2:49pm

Silent Exploder Ex Member

i just love the pic with ken and wendy! very good work! Grin

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Reply #5 - Jan 5^th, 2004 at 5:59pm

Cherokee_6 Offline
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Quote:

Posted by: Donnie111 Posted on: Today at 1:27pm
Doesn't that take an awfull lot of time?

Yes it does! But I am having a blast, thats why I do it! Grin

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Posted by: Silent Exploder Posted on: Today at 2:49pm
i just love the pic with ken and wendy! very good work!

Thanks! I hope they don't mind that I took their picture! Grin

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Reply #6 - Jan 5^th, 2004 at 8:31pm

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While you're here, you should do some flight-seeing up to the Comox Glacier.....it can hardly be missed and is only ten minutes from take-off......see if you can locate it, Dean..........

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Reply #7 - Jan 5^th, 2004 at 9:26pm

BFMF Offline
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nice shots Wink

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Reply #8 - Jan 5^th, 2004 at 9:32pm

tvale80 Offline
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great pics Grin

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Reply #9 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 5:54am

Omag 2.0 Offline
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Very nice work! The leg with the best shots until now ( IMHO!)

Keep up the good work!

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Reply #10 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 7:37am

Sam 400 Offline
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Fair play. I'm planning an around the world trip for the 2004 ATW contest. I know how difficult it is to plan a thing like that!! lol N1!
Sam 8)

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Reply #11 - Jan 6^th, 2004 at 4:34pm

Sock Offline
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Sweet shots as always Cherokee!!

Sock Grin

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Reply #12 - Jan 7^th, 2004 at 10:30am

Cherokee_6 Offline
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Thank you everyone for your nice comments!
I plan to make the final leg of the adventure this weekend. I will post the pics and the concluding story on Monday.

Thanks again!

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Reply #13 - Jan 7^th, 2004 at 8:17pm

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WOW

Shocked

8)

What else can I say, an amazing trip so far.
Ive just cought up on the whole series, having only recently registered here.

Recenty while doing some charter cargo flights in my caravan (the aircraft Wink

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) I had the bad luck to get 2 airports in a row with no runway lights, luckily i was flying IFR and had ATC help.
I never realised there can be runways without lighting.

I loved the fuel crisis you had, once I attempted to cross Russia in a little Connivair and realised about 50 miles from the airport that I was just about to run out of fuel.
After a nice gliding lesson I managed to land it on a mountain, as far as I know, it's still out there.

Siberia is the ultimate challange for flying, I want to try it in an AN-2, but I think the range is not very long.

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Reply #14 - Jan 7^th, 2004 at 8:47pm

awash2002 Offline
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mine will be alittle bit longer just by one leg i am planing a 21 leg trip sofar I have done 4 legs but its all in Payware and freeware planes

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