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Well I did go to hanger 3 last night and there she was. I went over her thoroughly and was up until about midnight. I packed all my gear and hit the sack. Tomorrow would be a big day

When I got to the airport this morning, the boys had already taken The Robin out and had her sitting in a parking spot for me right next to The Coast Guard Chopper. It was a pretty cool sight.




OK...here we go. I did my pre-flight checklist and was ready to "start her up"! As the prop started to turn over, The Robin came alive! I think she was happy to finally meet up with me!




I viewed all the guages and all seemed to look good. The engine purred like a kitten as I re-checked all the instruments.




I then glanced up to see that I was being told that I needed to move, an Air Rescue Chopper would be landing soon. I signaled to the guy and knew that at this moment, my excursion was about to begin. It was late afternoon and My 1st destination was a place called Crooked Lake. It is about an hours flight through the canyon. I needed to get a move on anyway.....it would soon be dark and Crooked Lake is a VFR flight. Don't want to start off badly. Anyway, this little flight promised to have some nice views I was told!




I closed my canopy and asked for clearance to take off. The tower told me to taxi to the active and wished me "good luck"!
As I passed by the "Air Angels...When the Mission is Critical" sign,....... I said a little prayer that I would not be needing them!




As my aircraft and I moved closer to the runway, my mind raced with excitement.
Here is where I leave, and who knows when I will return.




To see next leg...click here: http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/ ... 05;start=0

To see from the beginning, click here: http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/ ... 1058650475

Dave

Dave;

Nice stuff!

I don't look at screenies any more.
Most are too large, I don't like to
wait 10 minutes to look at them!
This one is just right!! about
30 seconds to load!!

Thanks

X

wow, the last one with the helo looks good!  :o

Thanks Guys.. since I will be posting this entire trip of mine and don't care about the # of threads, I am keeping all posts to under 500k..... Those are the rules anyway and we should all try to adhere. Hell, I am on dial up also X. (Maybe after this house extension I will be able to afford braodband!)

Thats fantastic Dave!

Looks like you are going to have fun on this trip! I just began the prep work for an excursion of my own...I gave up the Around the World attempt as I just do not have the time anymore. Instead I will be doing a Cross-Canada trip instead. I too am going to post my trip in the raw screenshots forum...

Have fun and I will be following your trip closely!

Thanks Dean.
Should be fun now that I am going to my 1st destination,.....The Bush!!!
Got a ton of Add ons and look foward to seeing them for the first time when I get to each airfield. I also downloaded the 16 meshes of Alaska at Avsim, each at around 40 to 50mbs!!! (cousin has braodband!

Dave, when you get here, we can do an online session which I will host and your dial-up will allow you reasonable mulitplayer, as thats what Ozzy and I did under the GG bridge....he was on dial-up for that session which I hosted....now I can get better screenshots of it all too......