Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dataioDataio.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!entropy!dataio!dbp From: dbp@dataioDataio.UUCP (Dave Pellerin) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: Deadstick- Straight-Tail 150 Engin Message-ID: <853@dataioDataio.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 13:21:48 EST Article-I.D.: dataioDa.853 Posted: Fri Nov 1 13:21:48 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 06:46:31 EST Reply-To: dbp@dataio.UUCP (Dave Pellerin Organization: The Boneless Chicken Farm Lines: 27 >> Blah, Blah > Re: Blah Blah Boy, Connie Falk's long cross country experience sounded just like mine... ... I took off from Boeing Field and flew south to Scappoose, OR for a T & G, then started up the gorge toward the Dalles VOR (I think, it's been a while). I found that the winds in that vicinity were stronger than expected, so my groundspeed was lower than planned. No problem, though, I figured I had plenty of gas. When I got to my next leg, a turn to the northeast to fly up to Yakima, I was about 10 minutes behind schedule. Still no problem, but when I got to where I figured the airport should be, there wasn't anything but rolling fields in sight. The landmarks I had planned on seemed to be there... and there... and over there too! Everything in eastern Washington looks the same! I flew around for about fifteen more minutes, then called up the tower (or was it a Unicom? I forget). They described a few more landmarks for me to follow and I found the airport tucked in between two of the hills nearby. When I pulled into McCallister Flying Service, old McCallister pumped in about 20 gallons and gave me a funny look! The rest of the flight was unneventful (and beaut- iful) over Snoqualmie Pass via Ellensburg and back to Boeing. Dave (not yet deserving of the title 'Deadstick') Pellerin