And everyone knows how Ifeel about free!!! Ijust saw Peep Show the other night for free!! Love them there comps!! Loved them there dancers even more!!!!
Ido an outstanding covering job on my planes but in this case it was painted. Itried something different this time. Idid the finish just like Iwas glassing with water based Poly U but left off the glass. That is a no no, from now on Iwill always use the 1/2 ounce glass, it comes out just so much smoother. That and it doesn't get hanger rash as easy. If you saw it in person the paint job really sucks. The Lustercote yellow didn't like the enamel primmer, I used enamel yellow on the wing bottom, that was OK. Iused very OLD Skybrite enamel red but the thinner made it flash off as it was coming out of the gun. It's OK looking if it was my first paint job, but it isn't! From now on Iwill just hold off and use/buy the Klass Kote paint!
That is the El Dorado dry lake bed just down the hill from Boulder, there are DLBs all over the place but this is the one you have seen in magazines. A super group of guys fly out there, very few of the Bennett putzes show up. The gun club is just above the LB, Trap, Skeet, Sporting Clays, 10 stand, rifel and pistol ranges. Nice club, very hard targets!!!
Cross winds are not a problem but we do get them. When the area has the normal ammount of pilots there we can't just land anyplace we want, the trucks and vans tend to get in the way. We set up our pit area so we take off and land north or south so it's usually a head wind. Cross wind landing is something we instructors teach so our students can go to any field and not have problems.
Dead sticks or other problems though are easy to handle without any pucker factor, it's hard to miss 7 sq. miles of runway.
It's not as smooth as it looks though and the off road people seem to think we need the rutts and bumps in our runway. Buttheads like to drive around our area after a good rain. Why anyone would bother going out there to ride is beyond my thinking, Iraced bikes and Buggy's and flat was never much fun? Iguess if that's as good as you are then that's where you go?