Thursday, October 11, 2012

A Look at the Numbers…

Late September and Mia and I squeezed in one last scratch flight off of Chelan Butte during the "Fly and Bike”, one last swim in Lake Chelan. While the embers of the basin’s late season fires smolder out,the season is over. We’ve de-rigged the rig and dragged everything home for winter.

Just for the heck of it, I had a look at some numbers…

The tow rig burned 386 liters of fuel (84 Imperial gallons)  and logged 1972 Kms (1225 miles). This included a 1000kms getting the rig over the Cascades and back. My best guess, close to 600 kms of actual runs up and down the tow road !

So what did that get us?

Our core group of pilots (Mia, Mike, Randy and myself) logged 42 flights, 170 hours and 5000+ Km’s  of Cross country flying.  We picked our days carefully and left plenty of flyable days un-flown, choosing to “go to the beach”… after all, we do like our quality over quantity! Guests also contributed over 500kms more of XC, a very nice season indeed.

Mike sent me this GoPro shot from his last flight of the towing season. Its a shot of final glide into Mansfield. I believe it is a fitting shot to close our 2012 towing season. Looking forward to next year…..

Mikes final Glide