Saturday, April 11, 2009
N951CC goes flying to find desert flowers
I went flying last Sunday to see if there were any more desert flowers blooming. It looks pretty cool from the sky and is our equivalent to the trees changing colors in the fall. I got out of the main Indian Wells valley and headed west into the mountains to look, but ran into dusty updrafts and moderate turbulence between Kernville and Tehachapi at 8500 feet so I headed back towards the Antelope Valley. The hill by Mojave didn't have any flowers either. I did find huge orange patches with some yellow in the Poppy Reserve near Lancaster. The race track by Rosemond was also going so I tried to get a view of them, but I was shaking the camera a bit too much. I was going to head to Apple Valley for lunch, but there was dust rooster tail coming up a few thousand feet off the dry lake in that direction. I got the weather from ATIS/AWOS from a few nearby airports and the winds were picking up all over so I headed back to IYK. After grabbing a burger in Inyokern, I headed back to the airport and helped my mechanic change the oil. We also removed the air filter for cleaning/re-oiling and found that my air conditioner compressor was loose again. Bill should have that fixed by now, but I haven't been out there yet to check.
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