Flying to BM this year was a bit tricky since the plane I've been renting in past years, was not available and no other planes were available. I ended up finding Juan who was interested in flying to BM, as well as potentially attending in the future.

The Comanche is an interesting retract plane. It doesn't have as much power as a C182, but being retract it's fairly fast, and had decent payload. It is a bit challenging to fly though, given that its controls are not what most pilots are used to, including a hand brake instead of foot brake. That was not an issue for Juan though :)

pyramid lake

Arrived at BM before long, not a huge line of cars, which was unexpected:

ticket chek and vehicle check

We did 2 circles around the city with pictures:

center camp

the bee man

temple

gas station for art cars and official vehicles

edge of 10 & K

line of art cars getting their DMV credentials

Shots of the Airport:

flying around razorback before joining downwind

nice control tower

great to see my friends at the airport, and thanks for helping run the show

The departure was tricky since most of burning man was delayed by 2 days due to the big rain storm. Runway opened monday, but too late for my friend to come and fly back that same day, so we left on tuesday, after the delayed burn. Seeing the cars drive out was interesting, there were 2 paths across a somewhat wet spot that was left over a river that got created and blocked off the road:

this was the literally river that was blocking the road but by monday, had dried off enough by the exit point

The city itself was a bit sparse by tuesday, understandably:

temple was still there and meant to burn tuesday night

not too many planes left by tuesday

Uneventful flight home:

safe and sound in Palo Alto