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I decided I needed a bit of "flight
therapy" after all that commercial flight time to FL and back, so I took a local
trip yesterday around the mountains in N3773. The TFR says 13,000', so
that's where I shot this from. the std. south climbing route takes you
right up to where the ash has darkened the snow. no one is up there now
except geologists. radio transmissions made it sound like there was a
helicopter near the old dome at the time of this photo, but I can't see
one.
at 13,000' I had to descend at
2,000'/min, showing 173 knots ground speed, to return to my airport 30 some
miles away. even then it took some zero G rolls to burn off excess
altitude. if it wasn't for cooling shock worries, it would be fun to try
it with the engine shut down.
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