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2006-09-10 08:09
by Merlin
in Bm
Current Music: Christopher Franke
Current Mood: Good
My choice selected pictures came down to more than 120 this year, so I'm not going to post that many here. You shoud go to the 2006 burning man report page for the real report.
It was still fun for the geek factor
and the pretty sights :)
But again, for more, you should go read the 2006 burning man report page
Current Mood: Good
My choice selected pictures came down to more than 120 this year, so I'm not going to post that many here. You shoud go to the 2006 burning man report page for the real report.
It was still fun for the geek factor
and the pretty sights :)
But again, for more, you should go read the 2006 burning man report page
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2006-09-04 23:40
by Merlin
in Bm, Flying, Nflying
I was excited this year because I went from being a passenger in a small plane headed to BRC, and back, and thinking it would be cool to get my pilot's license, to getting the said license, and managing to rent a plane from the fine folks at
Shoreline Flying Club at Palo Alto Airport
The flight was about 1H50 each way, although you have to add pre-flight, tying down the plane, and in my case taping every orifice in the plane to make sure playa dust wouldn't get in (playa dust is not very kind to mechanical hardware, which is why we were all surprised to see some rich folks who showed up just for 6 hours, paid $2000 cash at the gate, and flew in in a Cessna Citation Jet. That was more rich tourist spectator behaviour than in Burning Man spirit...)
Anyway, here's the gps info of the flight, and the city and you can also find more pictures from the flight from KPAO to BRC ).
A big thank you goes to all the people who made the airport possible yet again, be it setting it up and tearing it down, or manning unicom, to advise incoming pilots. You can see more of the pictures from the airport and The city seen from the sky
While I spent most of my Burning Man time outside of the airport, and in the event (you can read about it here ), but I was still able to see the formation flight that happened (7 planes flying in the shape of the man), as shown in the picture below or video of the formation flight
On the way back, even if going to the airport is a bit of a trek (thanks so much again to Ranger Fixit for the ride there), and factoring in preflight time, as well as taking all the tape and plastic wrap off the plane, it wasn't as bad as the 1.5-2H it took people to get to the road.
I heard that on Monday, the wait time spiked to 4H. Egads! I guess despite the flight planning and pre/post-flight time, this is one of the times where flying makes sense.
The flight home was uneventful for us (a few pictures here ). Luckily I was more awake than my passengers :)
The flight was about 1H50 each way, although you have to add pre-flight, tying down the plane, and in my case taping every orifice in the plane to make sure playa dust wouldn't get in (playa dust is not very kind to mechanical hardware, which is why we were all surprised to see some rich folks who showed up just for 6 hours, paid $2000 cash at the gate, and flew in in a Cessna Citation Jet. That was more rich tourist spectator behaviour than in Burning Man spirit...)
Anyway, here's the gps info of the flight, and the city and you can also find more pictures from the flight from KPAO to BRC ).
The airport went over 100 planes this year
welcome home
Virtually all orifices were closed, and the wheel bearings/grease protected
If all customs agents were like this, flying wouldn't be that bad
The lovely black rock travel agency
cleaning the playa dust out of the engines in this planes must suck
A big thank you goes to all the people who made the airport possible yet again, be it setting it up and tearing it down, or manning unicom, to advise incoming pilots. You can see more of the pictures from the airport and The city seen from the sky
While I spent most of my Burning Man time outside of the airport, and in the event (you can read about it here ), but I was still able to see the formation flight that happened (7 planes flying in the shape of the man), as shown in the picture below or video of the formation flight
On the way back, even if going to the airport is a bit of a trek (thanks so much again to Ranger Fixit for the ride there), and factoring in preflight time, as well as taking all the tape and plastic wrap off the plane, it wasn't as bad as the 1.5-2H it took people to get to the road.
I heard that on Monday, the wait time spiked to 4H. Egads! I guess despite the flight planning and pre/post-flight time, this is one of the times where flying makes sense.
All right, I guess there are many rows of cars trying to get onto one small road
The flight home was uneventful for us (a few pictures here ). Luckily I was more awake than my passengers :)
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2006-09-01 21:40
by Merlin
in Bm
So far so good, the flight to BM was scenic and uneventful.
I'm running/biking around with Jen and enjoying the scenes.
More later (lots of pictures already, but didn't have time to work on them)
I'm running/biking around with Jen and enjoying the scenes.
More later (lots of pictures already, but didn't have time to work on them)
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