vbazillio Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 I continue some short flights in SOCAL. I continue to prepare myself for real flights I plan to make in almost one month, departing from San Diego, as usual. I may flight a C172 or PA28 around California, Nevada or Arizona. Wherever the weather will be good. I flew there several times and Orbx addon's help me get trained in advanced, preparing flights, understanding the field or navigation environment. I have a list of field I never went to. Kern Valley (L05) is part of this. So let's prepare a small navigation from Bakersfield (KBFL). As usual I use a mobile app. to prepare and run the navigation (Foreflight on iPad). I connect my iPad to my Prepar3D to get train on the app as well as the flight navigation. Departing field : Bakersfield, Californie. Code : KBFL. Destination is Kern Valley, with its camp. Code : L05. The runway is for, for a north american runway : a little more than 1000 meters. I depart from the big valley and southbound to follow the Sierra Nevada and catch the Kern River until Isabella Lake. The field is at the north of the Lake, surrounded by mountains. Field altitude is 2'614 feet. Surrounding mountains are at almost 7'000 feet. Not much room for the pattern. During my preparation, I missed the Right Pattern clearly stated for the runway 17 Approaching on a left hand pattern, it doesn't look good. Hopefully we are in the sim. Let's take the Just Flight PA28. I love this used avionics and cockpit It's a short flight, less than 40 nm, so around 25 minutes. Screen shots is from Foreflight on iPad connected to Prepar3D. Traffic AI's (UTL) are displayed on the mobile app as regular traffic, as in real life with an ADSB receiver. Taxi at Bakersfield from Epic Jet Center FBO. Cool, it's runway 30 in use. Short taxi. It's the default scenery included in Orbx Socal. My traffic is geo-referenced on the airport diagram (costly feature in Foreflight, from $99/year to $100/year) I read pilot's comments from Foreflight on Kern Valley. I should have get focused on the RP17 written on the Sectional Kern Valley information. Plain simple. Again "RWY 17 : Trees. Rgt tfc." Take off runway 30R, right turn, northbound and climb as much as weather permit. I target 5'500 ft. It's the ceiling clouds as far as METAR's display. Let's have a look. Last look at Bakersfield Leaving the big valley and follow the Kern River. As expected, cloud base are right there. Thank you to Active Sky. Seems to be better on the lake The PA28, Isabella lake and Kern Valley field should be there. Overhead the field, look for the windsock. Pattern is empty, radio is silent on this field even if I can hear (default P3D ATC) other unicom traffic on other field on 122.8. Approaching the lake. Look at Foreflight Final 17. Too high ! But nice view ! At L05 Kern Valley ramp. Anoter GA aircraft is making touch&go's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
European Mountain Man Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Fantastic set of shots and flight planing my friend i enjoyed looking thanks regards EMM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musterpilot Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Top set of shots John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Great Post this. cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradB Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Fantastic post mate . Cheers John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sawyer Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Nicely planned and flown! Beautiful scenery in that part of the country, it's one of my favorite areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifejogger Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Excellent post!!!!!!! I like all of the planning you did for the flight and all of the shots were super!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbazillio Posted March 24, 2019 Author Share Posted March 24, 2019 Thank you to all for your comments ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adambar Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Wonderful flight and shots! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chunk Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Tremendous set of shots Vincent, thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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