John Wayne to Salt Lake City

[meritflyer]

Summer vacation time!

I took my family (wife and two kids) and a week's worth of luggage from Salt Lake City to John Wayne and back.

Pictures were taken from a Blackberry so they're not super high quality...Enjoy!

1) Panel at 13,000'
2) Descending into Salt Lake City on our return
3) Over Lake Mead
4) Las Vegas feeling generous - direct Mormon Mesa, direct Salt Lake
5) Las Vegas
6) A tired airplane that just carried a weeks worth of luggage, a lot of fuel, and 4 passengers

 

[Bsmiller05]

Great pics! I love the SLC/greater SLC area. I make it out there every winter for a week's worth of playing in the snow. I can honestly say, however, that I've never seen it without snow.

 

[1B9Pilot]

Awesome shots!

 

[Roger, Roger]

Nice! Looks like she's running a touch warm in the first pic..just after level off from the climb up maybe?

I don't miss working on Mooneys, that's for sure!!!

 

[meritflyer]

Just leveled off from a 'best rate' climb from SL to 13,000'.

All in all, it was actually pretty cool. The CHT on 5 and 6 were sitting around 380. For being turbocharged, I've never seen the CHTs on my M20K go above 400.

 

[Roger, Roger]

Just leveled off from a 'best rate' climb from SL to 13,000'.

All in all, it was actually pretty cool. The CHT on 5 and 6 were sitting around 380. For being turbocharged, I've never seen the CHTs on my M20K go above 400.

Perfect! Which engine monitor do you have? JPI-something?

 

[meritflyer]

Electronics International.

 

[Douglas]

172KTS pretty standard up there in that?

 

[meritflyer]

172KTS pretty standard up there in that?

175-185KTS is common above 12,000' in the turbocharged Mooney (pending no massive headwind).

Around 15,000'-24,000' it's not uncommon to see groundspeeds around 200-215KTS.

 

[Persian_Pilot]

Awesome shots. Thanks for sharing. I'm doing a SLC- John Wayne next month in a Arrow. Gonna hit you up for some tips, if you don't mind


By the way, How in the world did you get MMM direct SLC :O :O :O :O ? Niceeeeeeeee

 

[meritflyer]

Awesome shots. Thanks for sharing. I'm doing a SLC- John Wayne next month in a Arrow. Gonna hit you up for some tips, if you don't mind


By the way, How in the world did you get MMM direct SLC :O :O :O :O ? Niceeeeeeeee

Be happy to help where I can.

As for getting direct, ask and ye shall receive.

 

[roundout]

Put some GAMIs in the sucker and you can get CHTs down in to the 320s or lower.

Nice looking bird.

 

[meritflyer]

Put some GAMIs in the sucker and you can get CHTs down in to the 320s or lower.

Nice looking bird.

Already installed.

 

[fly22]

What are GAMI's?

 

[roundout]

Already installed.

Whatchu doing running ROP then?

 

[meritflyer]

Whatchu doing running ROP then?

Oh no, the ROP/LOP debate!

 

[Roger, Roger]

Heaven help us if he's over square.

 

[motormadness24]

Nice shots and a beautiful airplane. :clap:

 

[Muff3n]

That looks like a really fun trip. Flying out West seems so much more entertaining than the wiregrass flatlands of Alabama.

 

[meritflyer]

Flying out West seems so much more entertaining than the wiregrass flatlands of Alabama.

It's actually entertaining to fly with someone with no mountain or terrain experience. Boy, do I have some stories as a CFI flying with flat landers.