{"id":1519,"date":"2012-12-31T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2012-12-31T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T21:42:08","slug":"out-under-the-ceiling-and-the-last-flight-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/?p=1519","title":{"rendered":"Out under the ceiling&#8230;and the last flight of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>I spent a good portion of the late morning, early afternoon yesterday flying around under the ceiling. I received a message that flying was off on the west side due to winds and fog so I decided to burn an hour anyway. After all I spent the first hour digging out of my hanger. Check out the deadly ice hanging. Makes for a great sound when you open the hanger door.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9066.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[slideshow]\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9066.JPG\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once it was cleared off she was ready to go.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9069.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[slideshow]\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9069.JPG\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I was off&#8230;Check out down town Truckee and the holiday traffic.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9076.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[slideshow]\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9076.JPG\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Departing toward Squaw Valley VOR<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9078.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[slideshow]\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9078.JPG\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thread drift&#8230;just saw this photo of 260driver coming in for landing&#8230;\u00a0<img title=\"Laughing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/forum\/images\/smilies\/icon_lol.gif\" alt=\":lol:\" \/>\u00a0One of our favorites&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/normal__PNH2742.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[slideshow]\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/normal__PNH2742.JPG\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back to my stormy day with nowhere to land (except for the airport&#8230;\u00a0<img title=\"d'oh!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/forum\/images\/smilies\/eusa_doh.gif\" alt=\"#-o\" \/>\u00a0) (Skis will go on this week)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9084.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[slideshow]\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9084.JPG\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9080.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[slideshow]\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9080.JPG\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9124.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[slideshow]\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9124.JPG\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a good one. Who has the better parking.<br \/>\nSquaw Valley? They have a lot of cars.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9086.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[slideshow]\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9086.JPG\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alpine Meadows? They also have a lot of cars and are very strategic in placing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9089.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[slideshow]\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9089.JPG\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or maybe Boreal?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9098.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[slideshow]\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9098.JPG\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it sure was a beautiful flight&#8230;Thats what its all about&#8230;\u00a0<img title=\"Very Happy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/forum\/images\/smilies\/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\":D\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9120.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[slideshow]\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.backcountrypilot.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/12335\/IMG_9120.JPG\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AKT<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I spent a good portion of the late morning, early afternoon yesterday flying around under the ceiling. I received a message that flying was off on the west side due to winds and fog so I decided to burn an hour anyway. After all I spent the first hour digging out of my hanger. Check out the deadly ice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}