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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Dairy Air Rosedale ( Jacques's field)

Tuesday Jan 22.
I made My first landing at Jacques's field (Dairy Air) not your average field 750ft. from beginning to the trees on the end the field slopes up 4% up to the intersection of the two runway,s and then goes up to 9 % so a natural brake (the average ultralight will not make it to the intersection without adding power after landing and roll out
I first had a look at the spot with two feet on the ground it gives you a much better idea what your dealing with, and Jacques would like any one planning to land at his field to check it out first from the ground!!!!.

At take off You will get a nice kick in the pants from the 9% down slope this is a one way in and out field major transmission lines on the east side , I landed 10 with very light north wind cross wind was no issue ,the runway is nice and smooth except for frost heaves ,some small rock is mixed up in the grass , the runway will be nicer when 4" of grass is growing on it.
It was a nice experience I'll do it again soon Thanks Jacques .(pictures made by J.C. Menard also the slide show on the bottom of the blog) . Ron
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey Ron, what was that brownish spot on the bottom of the airplane?