UNU-OGM (pictures!!!) (probly a big file)

[AeroJim]

Flew up on 8 Aug and back on 10 Aug, both days were good wx days, some slight turbulence on the way back to UNU on the 10th though, especially over
the mountains.

Girlfriend and I


Lakes


PA28/181 Panel and the sectional of Northern WI


Moon Lake, my aunt has a cabin on the lake, also approach end of the RWY at LNL


Ontonagon River carving through the Porcupine Mountains


KOGM and Lake Superior with Ontonagon in the background




Lake Superior and Porcupine Mts


Bond Falls, thought you guys might like this one


Departing OGM over the lake




KLNL


Arriving at OGM (pictures from a diff camera)


Approaching 35 at OGM ( Pattern is 2160' MSL and elevation is 668') makes for quite the descent)


Base for RWY 02 at UNU


"Dodge County Traffic, Archer 24Q is short final for 02, Dodge County"



Post Edited ( 08-28-08 19:32 )

[ameval]

nice pics man, thats just cool dude,hope you enjoyed your trip

[Joeflyer]

VERY nice pics there Jimbo! Yeah, Moon Lake is very familiar. Of course I've seen Lake Superior too many times to mention Was up
there a couple of weeks ago.

I do hope you were overflying the runway in the last pic. Sure looks awful high of an approach...but, of course sometimes the picture can
distort the actual viewpoint of the pilot

I'm really disappointed that you lost 80 ft. or so on your targeted altitude. Need to work on nailing that down to +-10 ft. You might make a
good instrument pilot afterall...hehehe! Naaa, damn fine job there fella!

[AeroJim]

Hey Joe, Moon Lake is lovely, goin back up there for Labor Day to my aunt's cabin. And no I wasn't overflyin the RWY in the last pic, at that point
you can see im about 164' off the ground, I was a lil high but not bad for a heavy plane. The crazier approach was comin down from the pattern at OGM, note the nearly -1,000'/min descent rate!!!! It made for a very interesting landing on a 3500' RWY, and I had a Bonanza landing as i turned off the RWY, very cool flight, finally got to use my PPL, it was great.

It's funny you say that because I always thought instrument was easier then VFR, just to stare at the instruments seems easy, then again that is when
I was just under the hood.



Post Edited ( 08-29-08 03:17 )

[KenG]

That's a heck of a trek around WI and MI and a very expensive date.

Closest I 've been to that neck of the woods was KDLH in a BE30. I really remember the lobster and steak was good and the weather was icy cold. That
and the ya-hoo working the line at KDLH did not know the difference between a 24 VDC plug in and the 3 phase 115 volt AC plug in. The ramp jockey had
towed the airplane in front of the building because the only AGPU that they has was one of those plug in inverter types, so much for that stored
heading shutdown we did on the INS. There he was under the left wing trying to jam the plug into the 115 VAC side of the airplane. So much for that
"we have lots of experience servicing King Airs" that the FBO owner remarked on our arrival the night before. I decided that I was no longer prudent
to trust these guys and grabbed the plug had him tow the airplane around the other direction and plugged in the power myself. I warned our other pilot
by leaving a note back at our OPS. Didn't matter! Next airplane that flew in the same ramp jockey plugged in the power to the DC side but some how
managed to jam the thing on backwards. The pilot flipped the battery switch and blew out the ECUs in the airplane grounding them and the airplane for
another night.

I got the flight to go rescue our crew and airplane by hauling the spare ECU and a mechanic to fix the airplane. We stuck around long enough to make
sure that all the right parts were on and the airplane was fixed. Same ramp jockey comes out again, "need an AGPU?" I told him "No, we'll do a battery
start." I'm thinking that his company just toasted one of our airplanes due to his guy's incompetence I am not going to allow him to fry another one.
That and I really wanted to sleep in my own bed that night.

Oh, I'll always remember the little town of Duluth up in lake country where the people were real friendly and the ramp guy had no business servicing
King Airs.

[AeroJim]

Wasn't too expensive Ken, 4 people, 4.2 hr of hobbs time at about 110/hr, so just over 100/persson for the wknd. DLH is a beautiful town, although
i've learned people in northern MN and ND are really nice, but many times don't know what they are talking about.

[the_nick]

great pictures

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