July 19th

Randy and I flew to Oroville and met Chris for lunch.  Jackie flew with him in the RV-6A for the first time.

Randy and I flew back over the lake (and Flightaware missed most of that).

In the evening, we went and met Randy and family at Chris', so Vic and the kids could swim in the pool, and I could dangle my feet in the water.  I got to play "Half Life: Alyx" on Chris' VR setup for a few minutes.  Maybe one day I'll build a VR system.

July 18th

I went to the airport and took the plane out for a flight before meeting Chris and Randy for lunch.

After Chris flew home, we did a bit of work on Randy's plane.  We noticed a bulge on one of his tyres, so we swapped that for a new one and I decided I should take the time to contact Aircraft Spruce about that.

July 14th

Randy and I met at the airport and went out for a little evening flight.

July 13th

We watched "Becky".

July 12th

We got to the airport fairly early and met Randy, then flew to Willows Glen for brunch.  It took a while, and interestingly Flightaware don't seem to have good ADS-B coverage up there.

Vic thinks this is just over her comfortable range as a passenger, so I'll look at a higher / wider screen at some point.  The waitress thought the planes looked funny, and asked if we pedalled them up there :o)

On the way back, we went the other side of the Sutter Buttes, and I was able to spot the other missile silos that were part of Beale Air Force Base.  Again, Flightaware missed a chunk of the journey.

It was pretty damned hot, so we put the planes away and went home, where I put the new newsletter up on the EAA website.

July 11th

I was on call today, so I pottered around the house, checking work from time to time.  In the afternoon I went out to the airport and took the plane out.  I flew up to Nevada County, and had thought about going on to Blue Canyon, but it was a bit bumpy, and I wanted to go and see the private Alta Sierra air park, so I flew past that on the way home.  I'd intended to go straight back to Lincoln (so about an hour in the air) but decided to fly over the house first, so I was up for an hour and a half all told.

July 8th

I went and picked Randy up and headed to the airport, where we finished up replacing labels on our instrument panels.

After that, we went out for a little flight.