BOOKS AND WRITINGS BY EARL ROGERS
AUTHOR EARL ROGERS © 2011 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED SITE DESIGN & ADMIN., ENGLISH SPECIALTY ARTS
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FLYING
ARTICLES, ESSAYS, TRIPS AND PICS
The Blue Bird Café advertises Free Pie in July, apple, two kinds of berry, chocolate something or other, and a few more choices. But wait, that’s not all................
Since Hersch Roby and I sold the
Ever hear of Brownsville? Brownsville TX, yes. Brownsville CA, no, not until I was invited to join a group of pilots for lunch at Bonnie Lou’s Café.
Brownsville (F25 on the chart) is located fifteen nautical miles east of Oroville at 2120 feet msl. The 2300 ft long runway is tucked into a valley surrounded by hills.
Photos of San Francisco and Half Moon Bay
The day is brilliant. Surface winds light and variable,Thirty miles visibility and
no clouds below 12,000. In fact only a few high clouds at 25,000. Surface temperatures
in the high 50s. Fall colors adorn the Sacramento Valley. It is November 12, 2010
a Friday. Could we have chosen a better day for flying? I doubt it. I am flying a
Cessna 182 with two passengers to one of my favorite lunch places, the Half Moon
Bay Brewing Company. Four planes and nine people gathered at the at the newly paved
parking area at the south end of the airport and walked the short distance into Princeville
for a feast of clam chowder in bread bowls and other goodies. We got there early,
but by noon the restaurant was crowded with folks waiting to be seated. Sitting outdoors
in the enclose patio we wondered if California is really suffering over 12% unemployment.
Fly Schellville
January 21, 2011
Just over the hills to the west of Sacramento and a mere 4 miles northwest of the Scaggs Island VOR sits the Sonoma Valley Airport. The locals named it Schellville after a crossroads 2 ½ miles away. The airport web site calls it the Home of the Taildraggers. They’re not kidding. It boasts a photo gallery of 66 taildraggers and another half dozen restoration projects under construction.
Article by
Earl Rogers
Spot Landing Contest
Sacramento Valley Pilots Association
Columbia, August 28, 2011
What is a spot landing contest anyhow? Anyone who has flown to the annual EAA Airventure at Oshkosh WI has probably been directed by the tower controller to land on (or past) the green spot or the some other colored spot, usually on the east-west runway. So I guess we all know what a spot landing contest means for pilots. It means that a pilot must land his or her airplane exactly on a spot on the runway in order to win a prize. Actually no!
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Earl Rogers
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