BACFest 2013 daily activities

Kathryn and I dropped the kids off at DBQ then touched touched down at I75 at 19:36. Had to fly the rwy 5 ILS to land at Parkersburg for lunch, but the rest of the trip home was in clear or scattered sky. N3630Q flew 19.5 hrs in seven days and performed flawlessly.

Thanks to everyone that worked hard to put on a great event! Looking forward to Portland!
 
Dean and I made it to Searcy at 17:30 central time, then some petrol and Dean was on to Hot Springs (about 30 min from here). Great job Paul, loads of fun.
JB
 
Left Norfolk at 11:30 EDT and flew east at 2,500 ft. until I could get through the broken layer. Flew over the mountains on top at 6.500, much of it with solid undercast. Landed in Indiana and Nebraska for fuel. Got home to KMCK (McCook, NE) at 10:00 P.M. CDT. Was a nice flight with tail wind much of the way. For the nine days we were on the trip we had 23.7 hours of flying time. We had a great time at BACFest 2013 and are looking forward to BACFest 2014. Plan now to make a commitment to attend BACFest 2014 in Portland, OR. which looks to be another awesome Beech Aeroclub event.
 
Everyone else had to fly home today, so I decided to fly around VA for 6 1/2 hours with a friend to feel like I travel from BACfest! What a great introduction to Beech ownership this week. It was a true joy meeting everyone.
 
Yeah, I think the reason they fly around at 2500 ft out here is; the TV towers go up to 2000 ft. With the airport elevation of 27 ft and near standard days, I missed out getting some sea level performance data on my Sierra. Maybe next year at Portland. It was a good time and awesome airplanes were on the ramp!
 
rashby said:
Everyone else had to fly home today, so I decided to fly around VA for 6 1/2 hours with a friend to feel like I travel from BACfest! What a great introduction to Beech ownership this week. It was a true joy meeting everyone.
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Gee whiz Roland, that's like 1 whole tank of gas (roughly). You should feel real proficient with your sport III after that, right? Thanks for showing us around on Saturday! I had a blast. I have to figure out what I can log and what I might not today, but I think total hobbs for the event was 13.3 or 13.5 from Searcy and back NOT including the flyout on Friday.

JB
 
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I flew at 2,000 ft. initially because KORF was reporting a 2,600 ft. broken ceiling. Had to stay 500 ft below clouds to be legal. The layer at that level was variable and I had other more important issues such as KORF departure gave me a heading about 50 degrees from the direction I needed to fly. When I cancelled radar service later, I flew above that layer than then went to 6,500 ft to be on top of the higher layer going over the mountains. I flew a lot of 2,500 ft. agl across Indiana to Nebraska to avoid head winds and actually had a tail wind much of the time. This is not expected when flying west. Here in the midwest, I have occasionally flown 1,000 ft. agl to avoid headwinds. You ought to try it some time. By the way, did anyone else have issues with KORF sending them on a heading away from their course? When we went to Elizabeth City, they gave me and other pilots I talked to a heading of 230. Later we got back on course, but as someone said, we were headed to Tennessee for awhile.
 
If you flew direct to ECG, I think they may have had to hand you off to Oceana and Oceana may have been busy so they just sent you west. They never handed me off to ECG so when I overflew the field, I contacted them myself! I went out IFR and filed for 6000 because I wanted to get some actual IFR and I was in a layer until about 30 east of Richmond when I broke out. On descent into my home field, I waited until I had a big puffy to go through before requesting lower! A fun trip back and I only had about 5kt headwind at 6000.

Alan White

niechiro said:
I flew at 2,000 ft. initially because KORF was reporting a 2,600 ft. broken ceiling. Had to stay 500 ft below clouds to be legal. The layer at that level was variable and I had other more important issues such as KORF departure gave me a heading about 50 degrees from the direction I needed to fly. When I cancelled radar service later, I flew above that layer than then went to 6,500 ft to be on top of the higher layer going over the mountains. I flew a lot of 2,500 ft. agl across Indiana to Nebraska to avoid head winds and actually had a tail wind much of the time. This is not expected when flying west. Here in the midwest, I have occasionally flown 1,000 ft. agl to avoid headwinds. You ought to try it some time. By the way, did anyone else have issues with KORF sending them on a heading away from their course? When we went to Elizabeth City, they gave me and other pilots I talked to a heading of 230. Later we got back on course, but as someone said, we were headed to Tennessee for awhile.
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Dentist, they've got to get right up in there and take a real good close look...

drwhite said:
If you flew direct to ECG, I think they may have had to hand you off to Oceana and Oceana may have been busy so they just sent you west. They never handed me off to ECG so when I overflew the field, I contacted them myself! I went out IFR and filed for 6000 because I wanted to get some actual IFR and I was in a layer until about 30 east of Richmond when I broke out. On descent into my home field, I waited until I had a big puffy to go through before requesting lower! A fun trip back and I only had about 5kt headwind at 6000.

Alan White
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I actually had a tail wind below the clouds, so I was reluctant to go higher. However, I did nto want to run into any rocks.
 
from London, Ky to Searcy we stayed at 4000 for favorable winds. I can say I wasn't a big fan of flying in the clouds, if I have an element, that wasn't it...
 
Peter and Leili took off IFR 12:30 and had clear sailing west of Washington up to our rest/fuel stop in central PA (Miflin County). Low cloud was reported over the mountains enroute so Leili gave up her leg so I could continue IFR at 6000, including 30 minutes in IMC until I got clearance to drop down to 5000 and have something of an occasional view (IMC without an autopilot is quite tedious!). Another stop for Canadian customs and then on home (NW of Toronto), arriving around 9 PM of which 5:45 was air time, as we fought headwinds all the way.


Peter
 
Peter,

Glad you and Leili made it home safe. Looking forward to seeing you again at another BAC Fest!
 
Thanks, Marty.

As always, we appreciated all your tips on maintaining our little red bird... and this time Leili took notes!


Peter
 
After BACFest 2012 in Gulf Shores some of you led the way to have the FBO awarded an FBO of the week designation. At BACFest 2013, I thought Land Mark tried to go above and byond what they needed to do so I was wondering if those of you who helped with the award last year could help get Land Mark FBO a similar award. i think they deserve it. I will help, but don't know what to do.
 
I mailed five of the comment cards they had at the counter, one for each day I flew in or out. Gave them good reviews, don't know how much that will help.
Bob
 
Mike, that was an AvWeb FBO of the Week award.

I put them in for it. You used to find it at the bottom of their website.

Go to avweb.com and search for FBO of the week and see what you can find.
 
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