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1 Saturday, January 7, th Cobra flight, 89th solo Monument Valley, Agatha, Goosenecks 3 landings I set my alarm clock for 5:40am, but I was already awake when it went off, in anticipation of a full day of flying in Monument Valley. We set up in the dark and were ready to go at sunrise, but we had an 8 mph wind out of the SE. This set up a tailwind on the only way off of this airstrip, downhill and to the north. We hoped the wind would shift once it warmed up a bit, but it only got stronger. We were grounded. We tied down the trikes and retreated to our hotel room where we could watch the trikes from the balcony (lower right). Launch: 3:01pm Landing: 5:34:pm Today s airtime 2:33 GPS odometer: 127 miles Total logged time: 235:24 Total solo time: 219:49 Launch: Calm Landing: Calm

2 I drove Damien and myself crazy by looking out the window, sitting down, then getting up 5 minutes later to check if the windsock was angled 45 deg or 50 deg. If we were patient, we be rewarded by perfect flying conditions, right? During lunch the winds peaked at mph, then slowly eased off. By 2pm the winds were noticeably lighter, and at 2:30pm the windsock went limp. We were in the air by 3pm. I launched first, then radioed back to Damien it was smooth on takeoff, but up high it was blowing 20mph out of the south. The winds had not died, but had just shifted in direction enough to be fully blocked by the large sandstone cliff to the south. Damien launched, made sure his propeller was ok, then followed me south toward a gnarly pyramid of rock called Agatha. We crossed a mesa on the way and encountered some bumpy air. On my turbulence scale, that means both hands on the control bar and no pictures. My only picts of Agatha are ones captured from my video camera (lower left). Damien followed me for a while, thinking I was leading him to his death. He was getting hammered in his single surface wing, and retreated to the flatlands north of Agatha. Then I got into really bumpy air, which means get out of here. It was the worst turbulence I have felt in my trike and reminded my of my old hanggliding days. I retreated north too.

3 The afternoon thermals were being shredded by the winds and were swirling around the buttes. Both of us found it was much smoother higher up and over the flatlands. I cruised around and viewed Monument Valley from above and to the side, instead of down low and between the pinnacles.

4 I worked my way to the north end of Monument Valley. From here I could see the San Juan River Canyon and the Goosenecks, 25 miles to the NE. The wind was blowing perpendicular to a course line to the Goosenecks, so I decided to fly out there and check them out. Left: The Totem Pole at the left end of this line of pinnacles.

5 The San Juan River Canyon stretched for miles to the west, too big for me to comprehend its size. I headed out over one of the Goosenecks (see GPS track below). Could land on this island mesa if I had an engine out? GPS track

6 Upper left: The sun was in my eyes on the return trip to Mounument Valley. I stayed high because the winds were blowing 25mph over the buttes. Lower left: Down below, I saw Damien s making a suicide run between the buttes. He was being punished down there, but he wanted to get that money shot for his video. He didn t linger long and headed straight for the airport. The buttes were lit up bright and the shadows were long. I circled out here for 30 min enjoying the view.

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8 When the sun set I headed back to the airport. It was very smooth down low at the base of the cliff. We cruised down and back, then landed on the 900 ft paved section of the runway. We had thought we were skunked this morning, but it had turned into a great day of flying. Damien used up his video camera tape while flying So there were no air to air pictures of me, but he made up for it by reloading his camera and shooting taking some great video of me making a couple landings and takeoffs in the twilight, strobes flashing away. Damien created a video this day s flying and posted it on his website, Check it out. I refueled my trike and prepped it for my return to Belen in the morning. We grabbed a bite to eat at the restaurant then headed to the hotel s multimedia show on Monument Valley. We brought our camcorders, still loaded with the day s footage.

9 After the show, Damien plugged his camcorder into the projection system and we watched his video on the big screen. It was spectacular, with the soundtrack and narration from the show matching Damien s raw video almost perfectly. I checked the weather for tomorrow, it looked a little windy. I hoped I could get an early start for the return flight home. Flying in the wind shadow San Juan River Goulding s Goosenecks Sunset buttes Where Damien got hammered Agatha Totem Pole

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