Please enjoy details of my flight to Provo at FL450.  We'll do about mach.80 in cruise - it's about 560 nm and takes about 2.5 hours.  Routing KMRY MRY5 SHOEY DUGLE Q134 JULIK (RNAV RY 13 CTL 31) KPVU.  Paint by legendary @C525B

Get off your phone lady...let's go flying already

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Taxi to RY 28L (scenery by BMW)

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Climbing like a homesick angel as we make the turn to the NE

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Flying the friendly skies

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Norcal and the Bay area seems pretty socked in

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Making the turn eastbound onto Q134

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Now we're well above any airliner traffic, and we'll make our west east (Yosemite National Park below)

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The Sierra Nevada range spans a majority of eastern California, the highest peak is Mt Whitney at 14,494 ft

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Some very beautiful topography below as we approach Mono Lake (I even see a rainbow)

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Just shy of 500 knots over the ground...not bad in a little Lear 35

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I assume this is solar panels but I couldn't find what it is on a map

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Grabbing the weather as we descend down to Salt Lake City/Provo area

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Out of the bases around 100 but we'll still fly the approach and circle to land on RY 31

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What a view even in the murk

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Provo tower is a contract tower (not staffed by govt employees)

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Finally time to disembark... only 7.65 USD for Jet A haha

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Edited January 4, 20242 yr by ryanbatc

Outstanding pics, plane and paint :)

 

Have not picked it up yet....too busy painting a slightly bigger plane :)

2 hours ago, Steve Dra said:

Outstanding pics, plane and paint 🙂

 

Have not picked it up yet....too busy painting a slightly bigger plane 🙂

Thanks Steve.  It's like those winning numbers on a slot machine

Marvelous...high-altitude and low-altitude images, Ryan...! This Learjet is looking better every time you fly...🙂 ...

Been once to Monterey (CA) via Road from San Francisco ...and recall just one touchdown into Salt Lake City...Utah region is beautiful to visit...Thanks for sharing this trip...!