Some flight tracks from my GPS logger

Made from an Arduino Diecimilla board, a SparkFun Protoshield, a MAX232 for serial interface, and a Serial i2c 32KB EEPROM also from SparkFun. With some simple compression of the lat/long and altitude data I can store about 10 hours of flight data on the rather small eeprom.

Trip to L.A.

A few more bay tour photos

Bay Tour

Nice day for a bay tour, but everyone else had the same idea -- was dodging traffic the whole way.

Harris Ranch

Some of the SoCal RV guys organized a small flyout to Harris Ranch, we had about 15 RVs show up, including a formation arrival and a smoky fly-by.

The winds were pretty wild -- we might have felt 25 knots on the ground, and I saw a 45 knot headwind on the way over.

Nice to finally put a face to all the SoCal-RVList names!



I also tried out a new camera mount. Need to run the camera in higher-resolution mode next time! Add in my compression and YouTube's compression and you get a whole mess of pixels. Well, at least it was a good on-the-numbers landing.

B-25 at South County

A strange visitor appeared at South County a few weeks ago...a huge and very weathered B-25 parked out in the weeds by the fuel island. It's been drawing a steady stream of gawkers from the highway.

As you can see it still seems to be wearing it's original paint -- so much peeling that it's hard to believe it can get airborne. Lots of buckets to catch leaking oil too.

Apparently the owner plans to restore it and display it at South County, and seeks volunteers to help. There's a note to this effect on the airplane but it's now illegible due to the brief rains we had.

We've also had a lot of RVs buzzing around, and strange helicopters...

Dynon update, Watsonville again

New software on the Dynons shows percent-engine-power, winds aloft on the EFIS screen, and all sorts of other screen-cluttering goodies.

Flew over to Watsonville and ran into some fellow EAAers. The enchiladas draw people from all across the state...