PSP - The official aircraft recovery mat of Alaska.

Can even make a rocky slope flat enough to drag a float plane up.

Don’t ask how I know about that. Long story…


BTW, Randy – I know John and Darby regret not making the open house. They did talk about it. But unfortunately had to head north to Tofino BC that week for a previous engagement.
Personally – I don’t think they are coming back anytime soon.

- Shelby

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The offer to visit is open in perpetuity. Give me some notice (+4hrs) and there will be ribs too.

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Roger that.

This might just be weird, but....
You wouldn’t by chance be related to the “3242 Liberty” waypoint that somehow has been programmed into my 407s GPS, would you ?
It has an alert marker/tag of: HTPL. Which is: High Tension Power Lines.
Any of that ring a bell?

- Shelby

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That sounds like us. We're 1/8mi south of Liberty on FM 3242. The property is bisected with HTPL. Probably in there because of an earlier similar invite.

Land that 407 here and it better have a fine particulate filter on the intake; you can't hardly swing a dead cat out here without making a dust cloud big enough to hide a barn.

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Been there – Done that.
Nasty stuff, dust is.
It’s not so bad on the engine as one might think. But it gets into just about everywhere else and is a real bugger to clean/blow out. A/C and avionics cooling inlets... Pitot/Static ports… Nasty.

The worst thing I’ve done was to drop into a feed corn field just after the combines went through. It was about a foot deep in shucks and stalks. I can honestly tell you that I know exactly what it would be like to be under a Bush-Hog while it was running over a brush pile. Wicked nasty. Took the paint right off the rotors. The tail rotor was making a real mess out of things. Packed the inlet screens. And OMG, the noise was indescribable !!

I learned about flying from that...

- Shelby

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LMAO! That's just too funny!

Thanks!

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