The flying weather forecast looks good through early Sunday. Then the wind is forecast to pick-up with weather coming-in for the overnight, and advertised to stick around through the early part of next week. The flying weather should improve for the second half of next week. Check back for flying weather updates.
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Archive for August, 2010Ted Stevens Plane Crash near Dillingham AlaskaWednesday, August 11th, 2010I thought I might give some of my blog readers some perspective of where Ted Stevens and his party’s plane went down in Alaska. My son Grant lived in Dillingham Alaska for 4 years before moving into Anchorage, and then on to Colorado. Dillingham is even by Alaska standards, considered remote-you can only get there by plane or boat (when there is no ice). In 2005, my wife and I made the first of our 3 trips to Alaska to visit with Grant and our other son Eric, who was also in Dillingham at the time. On this trip, we visited them in Dillingham for the first part of the stay. I’m posting some pics of the area so you can get a perspective of just where this happened.  Anchorage Ted Stevens Airport and our plane to Dillingham. Notice the shorts on the airline employee-it's February folks and not a warm spell either.  The view from the plane on the way to Dillingham. Notice no superhighway, so you can't get there from here other than by air!  Dillingham airport terminal. They had shoveled a nice path for us.  The view of downtown Dillingham from our B&B, Thai Inn  Dillingham Harbor, remember folks, this is February.  Some of the fishing fleet?  Fisherman's Cafe that's sinking into the bay.  The straight road below, is Aleknagik Lake Road  Here we are at Aleknagik. Our tour boat arrived just in-time before the lake froze.  This is Grant and his doggy Saranac on Snake Lake Mountain w/Snake Lake in the background. The plane went down up that way and to the right where Aleknagik Lake is.  Grant doing some spring skiing with either Lake Aleknagik or Snake Lake in the background. And that’s it for this trip. Weekend Ride Pics and Weather going into the coming WeekSunday, August 8th, 2010We had some good flying weather this weekend, but it’s looking like it will come to an end. It’s not very promising for the afternoon today or Monday. The weather also looks to be challenging for the most part this week. We will update the weather early in the week as we see how things appear to be working out for doing some flying.  The flying started on Friday morning with Tom and Cynthia from Scotia  Next up on Saturday morning was Shannon & Ashley from Schenectady, Jeff & Carmen from E. Stroudsburg, Brian & Carol from Rego Park  On the Saturday PM flight we had Jake & Allison from Blue Point, Ellen & Chris from S. Setauket  On Sunday morning, we had Adrian & Brian from Astoria, Mary Ellen & Mara from Clifton Park, John & Chris from NYC 08-06 AM Balloon Ride and Weather Update for the WeekendFriday, August 6th, 2010The morning worked out to be a fine morning for flying. We had a couple up from Scotia who are doing a weekend up in the Lake George area.  Tom & Cynthia The flying weather looks great for this weekend. We are expecting lots of sun, cool temps and low humidity, and a possibility of going 4/4 on flights, and plus, maybe even good flying for the Monday AM flight. 7/31 AM & PM and 8/1 AM Hot Air Balloon RidesSunday, August 1st, 2010The flying weather improved in time for the weekend, and we managed 3 flights with a number of folks from as near as Saratoga, to Syracuse, Flushing in NYC, and Wanaque and Fair Lawn NJ.  Jessica & Jason, Stephanie & Jason  Brandon, Pei Pei, LiLi, Sze Sze, Siew Chin  Chuck & Allison 
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