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"Head in the Clouds"Cross Country #3
July 10th, 2004
Michael Greene, Aerial Photographer
Roy Shenhar, Pilot (???)
For safety purposes, a thorough engine inspection(10:15 am)
Oil dipstick
Fuel draining apparatus
Check list
This is what it looks like from Michael’s point of view:
Navigation instrumentsAltimeter
Dave’s back
The shoulders upon which all the responsibility lies
The planned course…(every … at the end of a sentence has a reason…)
Just kidding!
Weather briefing (10:40 am) reports a ceiling of 1500 feet (only) at Pittsfield
The pilot-in-command ignores… (call it inexperience)
Massachusetts
Connecticut
NewYork
On the way to land at Keene, NH, Mt. Monadnock is seen above the right wing (11:50 am)
Massachusetts
Vermont
NewHampshire
x
“Hawthorne Feather traffic, Warrior 8090 Hotel is on the 45 to left downwind 02, Hawthorne Feather”
Translation: reporting that we’re entering at a 450 into a left traffic pattern to runway 02 (which is oriented 200 to the north)
Above the left wing – UMass,
Carol and Michael’s house
Lincoln Apts.
Rt. 116
Rt. 9
above the right wing – North Amherst
“Northampton traffic, Warrior 8090 Hotel is left downwind 32, Northampton”
“Northampton traffic, 90 Hotel, left base 32, Northampton”
“Northampton traffic, 90 Hotel, final 32, Northampton”