Big East Trip Day 7

Big East Trip – Travel Day 7
Monday June 14, 2004

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Shreveport, LA – Woodward, OK
Full stop @ Woodward, OK (KWWR)
This was a fairly pleasant and uneventful flight. Rarely did we have any clouds in the way, but as it got warmer we did get a bump or two. We flew fairly close to Oklahoma City, Brig took some pictures. We then landed at West Woodward Airport in Oklahoma. It was in the mid-90’s there and rising. We met some friendly folks there, got fueled up and were given a courtesy car. It was in pretty rough shape, no air conditioning, and windows that didn’t go down much. We ate at a combination Taco Bell/Kentucky Fried Chicken, then headed back to the airport. By this time it was 100 degrees. But at least it was dry heat.


Woodward, OK – Longmont, CO
Full stop @ Longmont, CO (2V2)
This flight could be classified as the ol’ “hot and sloppy”. It was hot alright, even up at 8,500 and 10,500, which I only went up to to beat some of the heat. It was steady light to moderate chop pretty much the whole way. Crossing into Colorado near Lamar, I could see on my radar storms building near Denver. At that point I made the decision to come in from the north of Denver Intl and over Platteville, instead of south over Centennial Airport. I dropped down to 6,500 to

stay below Denvers Class B Airspace, but still had to go even further north to avoid the storms that were building. Finally, north of Platteville I saw enough of a gap and could see Longmont and headed for it. About 15 miles out I could see a new storm forming over Boulder and heading towards Longmont. There was another airplane in the pattern in Longmont and I asked him how it was, he said it wasn’t too bad, just starting to sprinkle, but the storm was definitely on its way

I transmitted I was going to make a straight-in, he said that was probably a good idea, and that there was nobody else in the pattern or the area. We flew right over our house, it was still standing, that was a good sign. We made a fast straight-in and made our last landing of the trip. On rollout, Brig and the kids cheered as we did it, made the trip of a lifetime and were finally home. Before cutting the engine the kids asked, “so when do we go to Alaska?”

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