{"id":834,"date":"2003-06-22T11:59:59","date_gmt":"2003-06-22T03:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/?p=834"},"modified":"2003-06-22T11:59:59","modified_gmt":"2003-06-22T03:59:59","slug":"private_flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"Private flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Private flight<\/h1>\n
June 22, 2003 in Reno, NV
\n
\nSunday\n<\/div>\n

From Reno south over Minden, Nevada and Bridgeport, California
\nto Lee Vining and Mono Lake. This is along the eastern side of
\nthe Sierra Nevada range. We had to gain altitude from 4412 feet
\nabove sea level at Reno to 14,500 feet above see level at Lee
\nVining. From Lee Vining we turned west and crossed the Sierras
\nover Tioga Pass, and then went southwest to fly directly over
\nYosemite Valley.<\/font><\/p>\n

Yosemite Valley is the heart of the National Park. Then we flew
\nnorthwest to the Gold Rush country, and followed the Gold Rush
\ntowns north, landing at Columbia to refuel. Next time we must
\nallow enough time to walk into town. It is preserved as a historical
\nGold Rush town of the mid-19th century.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Columbia we flew north past various Gold Rush towns in
\nthe western foothills of the Sierras, and at Placerville, California,
\nwe turned northeast and began climbing to cross back over the
\nSierras.<\/font><\/p>\n

We flew directly over the Squaw Valley ski area site of the
\n1960 Winter Olympics. We could also see Lake Tahoe off to our
\nright. We had seen Lake Tahoe to our right going south from Reno
\nseveral hours earlier. About 10 miles west of Reno, we called
\nthe air traffic controllers and reported our intentions to land
\nin Reno. We flew over my childhood house, and landed at the Reno
\nairport. <\/font><\/p>\n

The flight was exactly four hours of flying time.<\/font><\/p>\n

– by the flight pilot Catherine
\nHoughton<\/font><\/p>\n

The first time I woke up was around 2:00 am and
\nlater on I kept woke up. I didn’t get a good sleep. I even
\nscared by a strange dream, of course I won’t write here.
\nI checked out and gave the follower, which I brought back from
\nthe memorial service, to the neighbor. I had omelet at the hotel’s
\nrestaurant. I ordered vegetarian omelet, it was really bad looking
\nbut he taste was ok.<\/p>\n

John was waiting at the gate at 8:30 am. We went Reno Fly Service
\nwhich is inside the Reno Airport. Kitty called John and said
\nshe is arriving in 15 minutes. John just drove me go around the
\nReno Airport to have a look.<\/p>\n

Kitty arrived as same time we go back. We walked into the Reno
\nFly Service office. Kitty want us learn how to use the GPS system.
\nJohn and I got the manual of GPS and watched a training tape.<\/p>\n

We departed at 10:00. Kitty was the pilot, John was the co-pilot
\nand I sat at the back seat. We flew by the Sierra Nevada and
\nreached the famous Yosemite National Park. We saw the three famous
\nwaterfalls there.<\/p>\n

Eventually, I figured out how to use GPS system. It is so easy,
\npilot just need to set the angle to the target. But Kitty is
\na professional pilot, she just use radio and landmark to fly.
\nI asked her why she doesn’t use GPS; she said it will have
\nless fun. I really agree it.<\/p>\n

We landed Columbia at 1:30 pm and filled the fuel. Kitty asked
\nme what will happen if I can’t catch the flight if we go
\nto the town and have something there. I told her I will pay two
\nhundred dollars to change the following to flights. I thought
\nI’d rather to drive from Reno to Los Angels and refund
\nthe tickets. Kitty said that if I do so the car dropping fee
\nin different cities will be five or six hundred dollars. It looked
\nwe have to cancel the walk to the town; we went back to the plane.<\/p>\n

We took off at almost 2:00 pm. John suggested that we fly another
\nroute to save time. Kitty accepted the suggestion, eventually
\nwe arrived Reno at 3:30 pm.<\/p>\n

John quickly brought me out the Reno Fly Service, put me on
\nthe car. Even the service is also inside the airport, but I can’t
\ncheck-in directly from service. John had to drive me outside
\naround half airport to reach the entrance of the public terminal.<\/p>\n

My luggage was over weighted again, but it was only 7.5 pounds.
\nI took something out and got pass. The big luggage would be delivered
\nto Los Angels without unloading at San Francisco by myself. I
\ntook almost one hour fly from Reno to San Francisco.<\/p>\n

When I was waiting at the San Francisco Airport, I had Japanese Garlic Beef
\nRice. I also bought five discounted books, include a Teddy Bear index book,
\na fantasy book, a history book, a novel about Cleopatra and a fortune teller
\nbook.<\/p>\n

I stayed at airport for one and half hour and one more hour
\nfrom San Francisco to Los Angels. Sam’s uncle was already
\nwaiting for me at the Los Angels Airport. He picked me and sent
\nme to Sam’s aunt’s house, which is in Pomona City. \n<\/p>\n


\nPilot Catherine Houghton and co-pilot John Arnold.<\/p>\n


\nSierra Nevada.<\/p>\n


\nYosemite Valley.<\/p>\n


\nOne of the three waterfalls at Yosemite.<\/p>\n


\nAnother waterfall at Yosemite.<\/p>\n


\nRan out of fuel.<\/p>\n


\nFilled the fuel, but the co-pilot filled
\ninto the wrong tank. <\/p>\n


\nA
\nriver near Columbia, CA.<\/p>\n

Related links:
\nYosemite National Park<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Private flight June 22, 2003 in Reno, NV Sunday From Reno south over Minden, Nevada and Bridgeport, California to Lee Vining and Mono Lake. This is along the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada range. We had to gain altitude from 4412 feet above sea level at Reno to 14,500 feet above see level at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[243,310],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reno","tag-usa","tag-310"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}