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Cross Country again!
A few of you out there knew I was moving from the East out West last
spring. I packed myself and my travel trailer up last April and headed west. I arrived in Montana late April. I was to have a job out of Salt Lake but that evaporated on the way. I started looking in Missoula as soon as I got there. there is a very active aviation community there. Big Forest service base. I tried getting on with on of the few Air tanker outfits in the country. They seemed interested but no luck. I tried the local Airlines. Over qualified. I interview with one regional airline, Bad experience. Not going interview with them again. I signed up for a couple of aviation job boards... Within a month I had a job. In Oregon. I was to spend the summer working on and flying planes on contract to the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. One of our pilots quit so I am now flying out of Boise, ID until the end of September. Cool Job. Good pay. Well a few weeks ago I flew commercial back east to retrieve my plane. I hit the ground at IAD at 16:15 Wednesday the 19th. My friend picked me up ad we headed back to her place for the dinner. After Dinner we drove down to Fredricksburg and picked up the plane. It was now well after dark. I flew the plane back up to IAD. We went back to my friends for the night. Got up early Thursday morning and headed back out to Dulles. Preflighted my plane and we departed around 0900. My last time flying the ADIZ if I can help it. Due to weather over Illinois and Indiana we headed due west towards Cincinatti. We ended up stopping at Claremont county (Home of Sporty's) for Fuel and a quick break. A check of the weather and we had to head due north to Ft Wayne and then west to Iowa City. We spent the night at Jay and Mary's fabulous Hotel right next to the airport. We departed the next morning to low VMC so we filed IFR. It finally cleared up once we left Iowa about and hour and a half later. Once we crossed into South Dakota the terrain started to rise. We were cruising along at 4500 at only 1500 AGL. We stopped in Winner, SD Nice place, friendly. Had lunch at the local DQ. Most of the local resteraunts were closed for the afternoon. We continued on. Flew by Crazy Horse and Mt Rushmore, Stopped in Sturgis, SD, flew by Devils Tower and on into Sheridan, WY. Had a nice dinner and stay at the Best Western in Sheridan. We tried to get into Buffalo Bill Cody's for dinner but being Friday night the wait was just too long as we were too tired to wait. Left Sheridan around 0900 Saturday and headed west for Yellowstone. Flew over and got to see one of the geysers erupting from the air.... Cool. Then headed on into Missoula. My new home. Stopped for lunch and needed to run a few errands. Left there around 1500 and headed for La Grande, OR where I was working for the summer. Nestled my bird into our hanger for the night and passed out in my trailer for the evening. I am now working in Boise for the rest of Fire season as a Air Attack/Recon pilot. We get to fly over beautiful country and I get paid!. On my days off My boss is going to fly my plane down to Boise so I get to explore the Idaho back country... Cool. go fly, Michelle |
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Sounds wonderful on many levels. Thanks for brining a smile to my face.
Marc "Michelle" wrote in message ink.net... A few of you out there knew I was moving from the East out West last spring. I packed myself and my travel trailer up last April and headed west. I arrived in Montana late April. I was to have a job out of Salt Lake but that evaporated on the way. I started looking in Missoula as soon as I got there. there is a very active aviation community there. Big Forest service base. I tried getting on with on of the few Air tanker outfits in the country. They seemed interested but no luck. I tried the local Airlines. Over qualified. I interview with one regional airline, Bad experience. Not going interview with them again. I signed up for a couple of aviation job boards... Within a month I had a job. In Oregon. I was to spend the summer working on and flying planes on contract to the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. One of our pilots quit so I am now flying out of Boise, ID until the end of September. Cool Job. Good pay. Well a few weeks ago I flew commercial back east to retrieve my plane. I hit the ground at IAD at 16:15 Wednesday the 19th. My friend picked me up ad we headed back to her place for the dinner. After Dinner we drove down to Fredricksburg and picked up the plane. It was now well after dark. I flew the plane back up to IAD. We went back to my friends for the night. Got up early Thursday morning and headed back out to Dulles. Preflighted my plane and we departed around 0900. My last time flying the ADIZ if I can help it. Due to weather over Illinois and Indiana we headed due west towards Cincinatti. We ended up stopping at Claremont county (Home of Sporty's) for Fuel and a quick break. A check of the weather and we had to head due north to Ft Wayne and then west to Iowa City. We spent the night at Jay and Mary's fabulous Hotel right next to the airport. We departed the next morning to low VMC so we filed IFR. It finally cleared up once we left Iowa about and hour and a half later. Once we crossed into South Dakota the terrain started to rise. We were cruising along at 4500 at only 1500 AGL. We stopped in Winner, SD Nice place, friendly. Had lunch at the local DQ. Most of the local resteraunts were closed for the afternoon. We continued on. Flew by Crazy Horse and Mt Rushmore, Stopped in Sturgis, SD, flew by Devils Tower and on into Sheridan, WY. Had a nice dinner and stay at the Best Western in Sheridan. We tried to get into Buffalo Bill Cody's for dinner but being Friday night the wait was just too long as we were too tired to wait. Left Sheridan around 0900 Saturday and headed west for Yellowstone. Flew over and got to see one of the geysers erupting from the air.... Cool. Then headed on into Missoula. My new home. Stopped for lunch and needed to run a few errands. Left there around 1500 and headed for La Grande, OR where I was working for the summer. Nestled my bird into our hanger for the night and passed out in my trailer for the evening. I am now working in Boise for the rest of Fire season as a Air Attack/Recon pilot. We get to fly over beautiful country and I get paid!. On my days off My boss is going to fly my plane down to Boise so I get to explore the Idaho back country... Cool. go fly, Michelle |
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In article . net,
Michelle wrote: I am now working in Boise for the rest of Fire season as a Air Attack/Recon pilot. We get to fly over beautiful country and I get paid!. What are you flying? |
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Michelle wrote: I am now working in Boise for the rest of Fire season as a Air Attack/Recon pilot. We get to fly over beautiful country and I get paid!. Were you in or near KBIL while we had our big fires a few weeks ago? We had a lot of attack pilots in C185's, Commanders, King Airs and Twin Cessna's. |
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In article ,
Newps wrote: Were you in or near KBIL while we had our big fires a few weeks ago? We had a lot of attack pilots in C185's, Commanders, King Airs and Twin Cessna's. Twin Cessna's as A/R with their spar problems? |
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On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:20:05 GMT, Michelle
wrote in . net: I am now working in Boise for the rest of Fire season as a Air Attack/Recon pilot. We get to fly over beautiful country and I get paid!. How's the terrain in terms of survivability if you're forced to land off airport? |
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john smith wrote:
In article . net, Michelle wrote: I am now working in Boise for the rest of Fire season as a Air Attack/Recon pilot. We get to fly over beautiful country and I get paid!. What are you flying? T337G Turbocharged, pressurized, Cessna 337 Riley Rocket Conversion, with Air Conditioning. Nice ride and is one of the nicest flying planes I have ever flown. Michelle |
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Newps wrote:
Michelle wrote: I am now working in Boise for the rest of Fire season as a Air Attack/Recon pilot. We get to fly over beautiful country and I get paid!. Were you in or near KBIL while we had our big fires a few weeks ago? We had a lot of attack pilots in C185's, Commanders, King Airs and Twin Cessna's. Unfortunately, No. I was in Oregon. We have contracts in three locations. None are in Montana. We have two call when needed birds (a single and a twin) and one pilot. As far as I know we were not called. We were called to the Black Canyon Fire in Oregon, this one made national news more than once and a Fire down near the New Mexico/Mexico border in June. Michelle |
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Larry Dighera wrote:
On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:20:05 GMT, Michelle wrote in . net: I am now working in Boise for the rest of Fire season as a Air Attack/Recon pilot. We get to fly over beautiful country and I get paid!. How's the terrain in terms of survivability if you're forced to land off airport? Not great. That is one of the reasons we fly a Turbo charged 337. Their Single engine service ceiling is 15,000 feet. Higher than any of the terrain in our patrol area. The only reason we could have a double engine failure is fuel exhaustion. This is the most preventable cause for an accident. We keep a very close watch on fuel consumption. Michelle |
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What are you flying?
T337G Turbocharged, pressurized, Cessna 337 Riley Rocket Conversion, with Air Conditioning. Nice ride and is one of the nicest flying planes I have ever flown. Michelle, please take some pictures of the aircraft on the ramp and post them for us. |
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