{"id":721,"date":"2023-12-02T12:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T17:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeflightblog.duckdns.org\/?p=721"},"modified":"2023-12-02T12:05:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T17:05:04","slug":"trip-to-the-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikesflightblog.org\/index.php\/2023\/12\/02\/trip-to-the-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip to the Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of my good friends recently retired from the Guard, a flight surgeon with multiple deployments to Iraq and a deployment to Afghanistan.&nbsp; Unfortunately, due to travel I couldn\u2019t make his retirement ceremony, but we hooked up this Monday thanks to the mighty RV10.&nbsp; The Doc live in the Poland of Poland Springs fame.&nbsp; The Lewiston Auburn airport is a mere five-minute car ride from his house and only 45 minutes via RV10 from Franklin County.&nbsp; With winter storms scheduled for the late afternoon we were definitely on a timeline, but made it with no worries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flight over Mount Washington was majestic as snow covering the access road and Tuckerman\u2019s Ravine.&nbsp; The Lewiston Auburn Airport is great, two intersecting runways 4\/22 and 17\/35 both in good shape and a clean and modern FBO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Doc and I grabbed a great lunch at MACs and hung out with Greyhounds for a little while it was time to head to be the storm.&nbsp; Blasting out of KLEW a 300 ft\/min rate of climb netted 140KIAS and 8000 ft before we reached Mount Washinton.&nbsp; After enjoying the view of Mount Washington, I began a gradual decent back down to 6 to keep below the clouds.&nbsp; Six thousand also had the benefit of getting us out of a 30 kt head wind.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeflightblog.duckdns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2461.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikesflightblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2461.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mikesflightblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2461-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Checking in with Burlington Approach the warned us of precipitation west of Franklin County and headed toward the field, the race was on.&nbsp; But thanks to the mighty RV10 and some decent flight planning we arrived for the overhead runway 18 KFSO about 5 minutes ahead of the snow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeflightblog.duckdns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2465.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikesflightblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2465.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mikesflightblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2465-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another fun trip and chance to keep up with friends\u2019 thanks RV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my good friends recently retired from the Guard, a flight surgeon with multiple deployments to Iraq and a deployment to Afghanistan.&nbsp; Unfortunately, due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesflightblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesflightblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesflightblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesflightblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesflightblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikesflightblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/mikesflightblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesflightblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesflightblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesflightblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}