Yesterday’s forecast, showed reasonable weather for today between home and Lone Pine Flyin 2026 in Owen’s Valley California. I was at the airport at 8am and wheels up at 9am. VFR and only broken cloud layer until I climbed to 5500ft. I passed San Luis Reservoir and in the distance it looked like I could make my way through Central Valley by descending below the overcast. Fresno, Visalia and Porterville were M/VFR and trending better. The Sierras were passable abeam Kern Valley.

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I’ve been waiting for my upcoming weekend trip for months! This is to be the highlight of 2026 flying season, a long weekend break from work and an adventure.

As the departure day (planned for today) approached, the weather clearly did not cooperate. First major fall weather front came in with convective¹ conditions, low ceilings, precipitation, mountain obscuration, high winds and thunderstorms.

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This weekend was a low pressure, low ceilings VFR, windy and bumpy. Due to maintenance and weather, I couldn’t fly my aircraft for over a month, so I was excited to finally get into the air. Aircraft performed flawlessly, I did 10kt+ crosswind component landings and enjoyed hours in the air!!

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The 140 now has over 20 hours after engine overhaul. While continuing the break-in process, I finally had an opportunity to make it to a Fly-in!

I attended an annual Fly-in organized by EAA Chapter 376 out of Sierra Sky Park (E79) in Fresno, CA.

First a pancake breakfast was served, immediately followed by lunch in the EAA hangar.

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#oshkosh #osh2024 #oshkosh2024 experiences a fatal accident on the first day of the fly in. :( #aviation #pilot #flying #flyin #avgeek #pilotlife https://www.thenorthwestern.com/story/news/local/oshkosh/airventure/2024/07/22/2-die-in-plane-crash-in-field-south-of-eaa-airventure-oshkosh-grounds/74501785007/

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Flight to Grass Valley, CA for an Armed Forces Day last weekend. There were food trucks, lots of great airplanes, flour bombing and spot landing demonstrations. I toured a C-47 which flew from Paso Robles, CA and gawked at all airplanes :)

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Airport Day at Lincoln Regional at Lincoln, CA - LHM. Good turnout and interesting planes.

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KMOD airport in Modesto, CA. Pancake breakfast hosted by Commemorative Air Force chapter in their museum. Great food, nicest people with attendance and scale that I havent see outside of midwest!!

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Innyokern Airport Pancake Breakfast and Cinder Cone dry lake bed camping flyin.

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Calavares County Airport Day Flyin @ #KCPU - short video of arrival and return to home airport.

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Calavares County Airport appreciation day flyin @ #KCPU , California, USA. Lots of people in attendance, lots of aircraft flew in, delish food trucks and good safe operations on the ground by organizers.

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Last week’s West Coast Cessna 140 Flyin at Harris Ranch 3O8.

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Just a video.

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