The Falklands | Hitting the Grand Canyon
Hey fellow pilots, Welcome to The Grand Canyon!! Arguably one of America’s most iconic and most recognisable tourist landmarks. Situated in the state of Arizona with the Colorado River running through it. I am set up in a family run motel about 2 miles from the airfeild we landed at. The weather is very hot and dry but that is causing a little bit of a bumpy ride over the hills and plains. The flight brought us down from Mojave in Nevada.
The route that brought us down was a bit of a long ‘dog-leg’ route as we had to avoid restircted airspace around the military test ranges at Area 51. I was hoping to get some photos from the flight but the route didn’t get me as close as I’d like so that didn’t happen. Then was straight down to Grand Canyon National Airport with a late decent due to Federal Airspace Regulations around the canyon. We will be trying to get clearance to get a good view of the canyon even if we start the flight as VFR before picking up our IFR flight plan. ATC will contact me before the next flight down to Ryan.
Operationally the aircraft is still performing really well, although we did have an issue with fuel cutoff and prop goveners at Mojave which was repaired with the enignes having to be removed and taken back to Las Vegas and repaired on the support 747. Once the they were repaired and tested (made more sense to test there) and then reinstalled the 747 positioned to Pheonix Sky Harbour ready for our last flights in America, into Mexico very soon