2017 Sonex Alaska Trip

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Re: 2017 Sonex Alaska Trip

Postby hickej » Tue Mar 21, 2017 11:13 pm

I installed the new Prince P Prop last weekend and am very impressed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S17yS22Z93s
Time to get serious!
I have the following things ready for Alaska:
Passport - check
CANPASS - check
US Customs and Border Protection Aircraft/Vessel Sticker - check
Radio License - check
Canadian Charts on Foreflight - check
eAPIS account for customs - check
Insurance - working...
Emergency supplies - working...
Sec. 02.35.110. Emergency rations and equipment.
(a) An airman may not make a flight inside the state with an aircraft unless emergency equipment is carried as follows:
(1) the following minimum equipment must be carried during the summer months:
(A) rations for each occupant sufficient to sustain life for one week;
(B) one axe or hatchet;
(C) one first aid kit;
(D) an assortment of tackle such as hooks, flies, lines, and sinkers;
(E) one knife;
(F) fire starter;
(G) one mosquito headnet for each occupant;
(H) two small signalling devices such as colored smoke bombs, railroad fuses, or Very pistol shells, in sealed metal containers;
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Re: 2017 Sonex Alaska Trip

Postby avee8r » Wed Mar 22, 2017 2:02 pm

Do we still need Canadian DOT permission to fly a U.S. Registered Homebuilt in Canada???
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Re: 2017 Sonex Alaska Trip

Postby fastj22 » Wed Mar 22, 2017 11:42 pm

Won't be joining you Jim. Took a new job and won't have the vacation time. We might head up to Montana to give you a send off though.

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2017 Sonex Alaska Trip

Postby caveman370 » Thu Mar 23, 2017 2:00 pm

Ditto on what John said also. Things already got in the way after memorial weekend.
Can go to cut bank though


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Re: 2017 Sonex Alaska Trip

Postby hickej » Sat May 27, 2017 7:43 pm

I made a slight detour and am in West Yellowstone at the campground. I'm the first visitor of the season and am expecting it to get cold! Since I didn't hear that anyone else was going, I'll probably launch out of Great Falls to Calgary either tomorrow or the next day after checking weather. Ill try to upload a video next time I have a hotel.
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2017 Sonex Alaska Trip

Postby caveman370 » Sun Jun 18, 2017 9:39 pm

Any new info how your trip is going?


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Re: 2017 Sonex Alaska Trip

Postby hickej » Mon Jun 19, 2017 11:00 pm

I have many stories to tell from being charged by a moose to dodging thunderstorms and dealing with mechanical issues. I made it back late on Saturday after a very long day of flying. While coming back, south of Las Vegas at 11:30PM, I turned off all of the cockpit lights and took a look at the constellations and the Milky Way from the comfort of my Waiex and thought back on what a wonderful world, indeed universe, we live in. Yeah, it was a great trip...
-Jim
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Re: 2017 Sonex Alaska Trip

Postby hickej » Wed Jun 21, 2017 10:29 pm

The first videos are getting posted.

http://www.youtube.com/c/jimhicke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkwNrTD3NBQ - Packing and takeoff from Big Bear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIDyFAU_cwU - Flying to Yellowstone and Camp Setup
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Re: 2017 Sonex Alaska Trip

Postby hickej » Fri Jun 23, 2017 1:36 am

While I was flying to Alaska, I stopped for a couple of nights at the campground in West Yellowstone and did a multi-camera flight around the mountains outside of the park followed by a high flight over the park. This campground is well worth a trip to West Yellowstone. You can rent a car or borrow the bikes. I rode into town for dinner the second night after freeze dried stew the first night.

Here's the link of the flight seeing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckQhFpYQeTU
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Re: 2017 Sonex Alaska Trip

Postby dtwolcott » Fri Jun 23, 2017 10:58 am

Jim
Fantastic video of you flying over Yellowstone.
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