Our little cabin in the woods....
Nice little cabin in the woods.
This is Wave !!
Lake Placid.
Warm parking lots fill the gas tank.
Scratching for lift at 1,000ft. AGL 2 miles from the airport.
Found it !!!!
If ya gotta camp .....
At first I thought this twin engined, open cockpit comedy on floats was the happy outcome of two MIT drop outs with a small savings and a case of cheap wine. It's a kit the guy uses tor photography. He says the photos are not hindered by obstructions or the glare of glass.
Bet it gets cold.
This pod & boom pusher was piloted by a young woman in a wheelchair. She had her check ride on Sunday. Congrats!
What I woke up to every morning, a quiet runway, gliders and Whiteface.
2,000ft. above Whiteface, Mt.
Olympic Bobsled run.
Surfin' the wave!
Wave cloud, the two pilot dropped me off right in front of it.
This is called a Pilot's Halo. Glider shadow on the cloud surface, but as the cloud is all water vapor there's a 360 degree rainbow.
Money shot!
Ski Jumps
I'm doing this in sections so I don't clog up the pixel machine.
Duo-Discus, one of the two ships I flew.
Welcome to Ponderosa north.
Someone here asked me about this trailer as a replacement for his 5th wheeler. Well, it's no 5th wheeler, no dining room, but it was great for the two of us. Roomy, two burner stove, standing room, dining table, windows all around, water & sink, storage and at 70 mph you would hardly notice it was there.
It's lighter than a Pop-Up and the insulated walls/ceiling is much nicer on a cold windy night than canvas.
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Can't wait for next year. 
Wave. Identified by Lenticular clouds we call "Lennies".
Very cool, thanks for sharing.
No. Always set the altimeter to field elevation, 1780ft. in this case.
Because I was going back to the same field, I set it at 0, don't tell the FAA.
Also I didn't use my ship because of the out landings, there aren't any. If you don't make it back to the airfield, you're picking pines pout of your butt.
Woody
MegaDork
10/1/13 3:29 p.m.
I loved everything about this!
Beautiful.
My favorite place to be.
Do you have to have an IFR rating to fly above the clouds in a glider or does the soaring rating include the necessary requirements for this?
Beautiful shots, BTW. Looks like it was a perfect trip.
The blue twin-engine open-cockpit plane looks like an Air-Cam. It was originally designed by a small company in Sebring to be used by National Geographic for tracking herds across the savannah. I interviewed with them many many years ago.
hobiercr wrote:
Do you have to have an IFR rating to fly above the clouds in a glider or does the soaring rating include the necessary requirements for this?....
It's based on visibility. You don't need an IFR rating to fly above clouds. Flying above a solid overcast also does not need an IFR rating, but you cannot descend (or ascend) through a solid layer without one so not really a good idea.
Interesting question though: has there ever been an IFR rated glider? Almost no reason to do this (maybe some sort of semi-suicidal cross country thing).
BTW - WAY cool post. Was the Cessna 190 was a tow plane? The triple tail fins are interesting, maybe an old float plane?
The 190 was owned by a local, our tow plane was the Pawnee. (former agricultural device)
