Copalis (S16) on 4.30.16
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Copalis (S16) on 4.30.16
The group Flights Above the Pacific Northwest (FATPNW) held a fly-in at the beach yesterday. I mean AT THE BEACH. Washington State has designated a stretch of sand as an official airport, S16. The elevation is 1'. This strip is only open at low tide, so there aren't that many opportunities when the tides and the weather align, but yesterday was one of them.
The planes parked alongside the "runway"
Short Final
My plane parked
The lineup
Departing
The planes parked alongside the "runway"
Short Final
My plane parked
The lineup
Departing
Por mares nunca dantes navegados - a line from a Potugese poem about exploring the unknown.
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Copalis
I think there were only three Maules there.
Gary, Dean (I think...sorry about my bad memory) and his son Noah, and my Yellow Maule.
Dumb Ass here left his master on and the battery was dead as a door nail. But thankfully the battery recovered enough to get it started before the tide came in. Jumper cables?....in the hanger Back up battery?....in the hanger
Couple of guys were willing to give hand propping a shot, but thankfully did not need it.
Guess what is not going to be in the hanger from now on?
Amazing to see that many planes on the beach. Traffic pattern was interesting with the mixture of speeds of the planes and people doing slow fly by's for a photo ops.
Gary, Dean (I think...sorry about my bad memory) and his son Noah, and my Yellow Maule.
Dumb Ass here left his master on and the battery was dead as a door nail. But thankfully the battery recovered enough to get it started before the tide came in. Jumper cables?....in the hanger Back up battery?....in the hanger
Couple of guys were willing to give hand propping a shot, but thankfully did not need it.
Guess what is not going to be in the hanger from now on?
Amazing to see that many planes on the beach. Traffic pattern was interesting with the mixture of speeds of the planes and people doing slow fly by's for a photo ops.
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Tom: I saw your plane there, but didn't see you. There were a lot of folks milling around so I had a terrible time trying to connect people with airplanes. many of the people I talked to had either driven in, or had landed over at Ocean Shores and were shuttled to Copalis. Sigh. It was a good gathering though. Chilly wind as usual.
Por mares nunca dantes navegados - a line from a Potugese poem about exploring the unknown.
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Tom I leave my strobes on all the time. So when I do forget to switch off the battery I get a pretty good reminder that some thing is still on. Stuff like that happens when ever I change a routine. I've got a simple checklist on the back of a clip board but we all know ho easy it is to over look something when we have other things going on.
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I do something similar, but leave the running lights on instead of the strobes. I'm concerned about the voltage spikes from powering up, starting, etc damaging the expensive strobe power supply. Of course, strobes are easier to see than running lights, especially on a sunny beach...captnkirk wrote:Tom I leave my strobes on all the time. So when I do forget to switch off the battery I get a pretty good reminder that some thing is still on. Stuff like that happens when ever I change a routine. I've got a simple checklist on the back of a clip board but we all know ho easy it is to over look something when we have other things going on.
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Probably happened at least once to all of us.
Simplest one for me to remember is the 3 M's
Mixture
Mags
Master
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Re: Probably happened at least once to all of us.
Remembering that is one thing. But sometimes you need a reminder to cause you to remember to remember it!taildragger wrote:Simplest one for me to remember is the 3 M's
Mixture
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Andy you have a point about the wear and tear on the power supply. Has any one added a simple rotating beacon and which one did you use. I had bee thinking about adding one because I hate to blind people at night with those strobes while your on the ground.
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