Winter Flying in Ory-gun

1. Blurry picture of GPS showing a ground speed of 71 mph. There was a 10-15mph wind coming from the NE, which made flying around the hills too bumpy for my taste. I eventually climbed to 2500 ft, above the rotors coming over the west-side Chehalem Mt.
2. A view or our nice, green countryside. Lots of soggy ground and full streams and rivers.
3. A low area north of Salem that fills with water during the rainy season. I got down to 800 ft in the flats.
4. Another view of same. This part of the Willamette valley is pretty flat, relatively speaking.

1. Mt Hood is visible in the distance (along with some bug smears on the windscreen in the foreground)
2. Another view of the GPS along with the airspeed indicator. My airspeed indicator reads 7MPH high, which means I'm actually going 53MPH (airspeed). If you can read the GPS, my groundspeed is 41.9, meaning an 11 MPH headwind. Other data you can get from the GPS: I'm enroute to my homebase at Lenhardt, elevation 164 ft. (MULticom radio freq. of 122.90). ETE is 14 minutes at a BRG (bearing) of 019, and a DST (distance) of 9.7 miles.
3. Self-portrait. I tried getting a picture of my right leg extended over to the co-pilot-side right rudder pedal. (didn't turn out.) I had been up for more than 1.5 hours at this point and got a cramp in my right leg. I found I felt pretty comfortable with my leg stretched over to that side. I just had to make sure I didn't bump the co-pilot side throttle.

Stoney said:

Gary,
I really enjoy reading your posts and have frequented the PRA73 website to see whats happening out in Oregon. Your PRA chapter is very impressive, I hope we can get something similar going out here in Virginia. I travel occasionally to Seattle on business and would enjoy dropping by Scappoose to visit both the PRA chapter and Sportcopter.

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