Not much happening out here at Ross Creek Landing.  My Challenger has been put into storage for the Winter and is now fast asleep.

The only thing I can think of for a picture is to go back in history to July 2nd, 2008 when a Flight of 3 "Knutsford Air Farce" flying machines was sent to patrol the skies above. A Challenger (camera plane), The "Bigfoot" Kitfox and a Renegade with the smoke on for the folks at Logan Lake.

FROM GORDON ISAAC

JERRY LIEUWEN

I talked to Jerry lately; he was a Club member a few years ago.  he since moved to Williams Lake, sold his power parachute and is now driving a truck.  A while ago he had sent me a picture from when he had been riding in Northern BC (or the Yukon...) 

Next time you come thru Kamloops, you are invited to drop in, Jerry!

FROM WALLY WALCER

RETIREMENT!  This is what happens when you sell your Rans, take over a bedroom and call it your hobby room. The motorcycle I got for my 65” birthday, I’m now 72, at least it’s done. The planes bought one from brother in law, he gave me the second one. I’ve ordered a Citabria from SIG Manufacturing, 69” wing span, balsa construction, but it’s on back order. Anxious to get that one, need something to do this pandemic Winter! You guys stay safe you hear! A guy I know would end with “talk to youa”. 

Wally

FROM WILLY TRINKER

Here's a link to my latest Blog post, maybe this helps your newsletter. Only a year overdue :-)) 

Working on another topic concerning flying the classic ultralights, hope it won't take another year too! Sorry to hear about Bill, but we also lost Hans Wilhelm my 701 flying partner due to a brain tumor in Colombia. As we all get older, eh... 

https://fly-bc.blogspot.com/2019/09/flying-on-cheap.html

Best Regards, Willy T. 

FROM CRAIG MEREDITH

Ha Ha! I thought that you were looking for money to fund the newsletter!🤗 I enjoy it and would love to see it continue. It is a value to the aviation community. And, the Buy & Sell is a huge asset ...one that I plan on using to sell my Bushmaster 160 in the Spring. It helped me to sell my Full Lotus floats a couple of years ago (I see that they are listed again!).

I fully understand how tiresome that it must be for you to come up with content. Would it help to reduce the frequency of the Newsletter?

I hope that you can find a way! Thx for what you have done for so long now! 

Craig😎

FROM DAN BERWIN

Taken in the Spences Bridge area.

FROM PAUL VILLENEUVE

Flapping my wings.  Fernie 1973.  Spring had taken all the snow out of the valley and with the birds and the bees singing and buzzing their joy at the heat I found myself not too far behind.  One night stepping out of a car with heavily steamed windows I took my very new girlfriend’s hand for a walk into what I thought was an empty field.   Out of the three am mist, a pale shape appeared and resolved into a small plane.  We had parked on the edge of the Elk Valley Flying School airfield.

Returning there a few days later I enrolled myself in to learn how to fly.

FROM JOHN EATON

I really enjoy the aerial shots of the country side and I miss getting up myself to see things. What about feedback from pilots on strips, especially emergency ones, with updates on conditions, maybe approach and departure photos, proximity to help, things that could be done to cleanup and improve them ( with owners permission if on private proper). In Faro, Yukon, the Airport has a comment book that pilots fill in after using a strip for others to use

Keep up the great work, Cam

John

Jan's Latest Videos

Watch at least my so far the most popular flying videos, #314 and #317. Thanks for visit!

Jan's Latest Pictures

Interesting clouds formations above Mt Peter. Looking North, Nov 28, 2020

New Cannabis farm (green roof) in Westsyde. Flying North, Nov 28, 2020

Interesting formation near McLure. Flying North above N Thompson River, Nov 28, 2020

FROM DENNIS SEIB

TAYLORCRAFT FLIGHT

Some pictures that Dave took of the aircraft's first flight in 20 years.  The flight was an adrenaline kick as I had not done a takeoff in a tail dragger in many years. It didn't help that there was a bit of crosswind and the tailwheel would swivel every direction but straight. The brakes are old cable brakes and require lots of heel pressure while also trying to use the rudder at the same time. Some interesting history of this Taylorcraft is that it is a 1953 model 19 and was the first aircraft of Dick Turner. He wrote about it in his second book "Wings of the North". He also wrote "Nahanni". His third book never got published but I read the manuscript. It was called "Mackenzie".

The Taylorcraft has twice the wing and half the power of my last aircraft.

I hope to get to a few more local airports before the snow flies. It does have skis but I have never flown it on skis.

I purchased CF-HAL back in 1987 and flew it for 10 years. The annuals were too expensive, so I stopped flying it and built an Avid Flyer and installed a Subaru engine. I had paid 8 thou for the aircraft but the first annual was 2 thou and the second was 6 thou.

It now is completely rebuilt and in owner maintenance.

Years ago, flying my Beaver RX-550 amphib, I was flying with the first-generation Spot device. I had taken off from my home field (Fred Glassbergens' 900-foot grass strip) in the Glen Valley area near Fort Langley in the lower mainland and it was a beautiful sunny day so I flew to the north end of Stave Lake where there is an old logging camp and an old road to a log dump on the river. I landed in the river and beached near the site on the river and then hiked up the old road towards the old camp and when I came to the main road, I headed down the road to Roaring Creek and hiked up that old decommissioned logging road until I came to my game camera site whereupon I changed video cards and then powered up my Spot device and sent an 'I'm Okay' message from that point. Usually, I powered down my unit after sending my message, but this time I left it powered up, put it in my breast pocket and went back down the road to the main road, once there I decided to bushwhack it to the old log sort on the river. Once at my plane I took off and flew down the lake and off towards the Fraser River, once there I flew up the Fraser to the Mission bridge and then back down the river to my home field.

The field is right across the road from a large practice area where it is common to have many aircraft flying about. As I was turning downwind, I noticed a search and rescue Hercules air craft heading towards me but off to my left, I continued to land and noticed the Hercules kind of circling my position. As I pulled into my hangar apron and got out Fred came out towards me telling me to call Conny (my partner) as my Spot was sending a 911 signal. As I cancelled the signal and called her, Fred radioed the Hercules to let them know that, 'pilot was down and safe'.

As it turns out , somewhere on that bushwhacking portion of my hike I had an activation of my 911 button and search and rescue then sent out a Cormorant helicopter to look for me at the ping site, but by the time they got there they were getting moving but erratic sites through the rest of my trip and so they sent the Herc.

I called search and rescue headquarters in Victoria and they said not to worry that it was better than a practice run because they actually were expecting problems, and he asked if I had a hard landing (there is an old strip) up there but I told him that it was an accidental Spot activation but I do not think he was aware of the unit I was referring to. I then called Spot about the 'pocket dial' but they denied it being a problem and yet the Gen. 2 unit has a cover over the 911 button to prevent such a thing.

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