Hello! You join me in a little motel just around the corner from Oakland Metro. Over looking the Bay of San Francisco and I’ve realised I’ve not made a blog post since my preparation to leave the UK, that’s my fault, we have flown from Alaska, through the states of Washington and Oregon and obviously now in California. The airplane is performing exceedingly well and due for an inspection from tommorrow (Monday).
We did have an issue when we flew into the state of Washington, the manager at Olympia wouldn’t allow me to land so I had to divert to Tacoma Narrows and the 747 had to head directly to San Francisco. First I thought it was due to the virus and testing, turns out they were having issues with the FBO and runway to be re-laid. From there we headed to North Bend Airfield in Oregon. Yesterday we got back on track into California.
Today we are hoping to head out towards Reno and Lake Tahoe and Yosimite before the Conquest is due for an engine service. I’m heading to bed sorry its a short post.
UPDATE: OK so we made it down to Yosemite after spending the day bouzzing around Lake Tahoe, one thing I have noticed with the West Coast (especially in the morning) is it’s pretty foggy and grey. I did get some photos around Reno but the aircraft is currently in the hanger under FAA quarantine and virus decontamination measures and also under going a technical inspection, I am hopeful that once that is done I can retreive my cameras. and get the pictures up.
Videowise the system is working and footage not so great at the moment….