It had been 3 years since last burning man. Another beautiful flight to 88NV which now has a full control tower with frequency, ground frequency, and unicom for parking.
The CA scenery on that route is starting to become familiar :)
Squaw Valley and Alpine Maedows (now Palisades Tahoe):
Squaw Creek hotel
Tahoe
Northstar
Truckee Airport
Reno and Reno-Stead were next:
nice little racetrack on the way
Onto pyramid lake and finally burning man
airport already had a fair amount of parked planes for a sunday
city entrance for the cars
surprisingly the car entrance had almost no line
you can see the triage entrance, waiting lot for will call and real entrance. Short wait.
this really was surprisingly short for a sunday
I did a couple of loops around the city:
temple
city was already quite full for a sunday afternoon
Then it was time to land:
landing strip 23L
nice ramp vehicle to get a ride to the parking spot
After landing, got some help from two nice ladies to tie down the plane and tape it up:
fly ties did a great job again
plane all taped up
After the event, got dropped off by the gate with all the luggage:
lots of luggage fit in the plane
Takeoff was a bit long due to density altitude and luggage, but there was plenty of runway. Got to see pictures of the exodus:
pulsing
very long line to get there
eventually people got released on the road, but it took 8 to 12H to make it there
The city got a bit bare obviously, but still plenty of people there monday afternoon:
Eventually went on course to get back home:
reno stead
disovery bay
