Let's Go Flying around Othello today....April 1999

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Our latest adventure around the basin.....Flying around the Columbia River basin...

April 30th 1999

 

Runup looking east

Run up with the cropduster testing my airfilter at Othello....off to Othello and then northward....

Looking west toward Othello just after takeoff...The Potholes region north of Othello

The Pothole region just north of town... the potholes are from a flood that happened

thousands of years ago... irrigation water filled them in....good fishing too...

Now to land at Moses Lake Muni.....from the back luggage compartment ....with the GPS

unit on the dash...

Coming onto downwind, about 83 mph, 1200 rpm, 600 fpm down

Turning baseleg

A little slipping turn on the way down final.. that's the 2,000 foot runway ahead, looking south

Short final at Moses Lake Muni

Final at Moses Lake Muni..there's the runway!

Tied down at Moses Lake Muni WA40....

Tied down at Moses Lake Muni

That was a 25 mile Cross Country trip...on a beautiful clear day!


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last updated on May 18th, 1999