Copper State Fly In, Friday, Sat Sun... Buckeye AZ Who's going?

[NinerBikes]

It's happening this weekend. I'll probably be there Friday afternoon and Saturday.

Who else is going?

[efwd]

I'll be there Friday.

[KitKarson]

I’m going Friday.

[pamz]

Pam and I are going Friday, returning Saturday.

Mike

[NinerBikes]

Could not get a room in Buckeye, opted instead for Goodyear. Anyone else staying further east of Buckeye too, for the night?

[DesertFox4]

Windy and down right chilly in the CopperState area today. Rain moved through yesturday and clouds moved out late last night but strong west northwest winds persisting today. Not able to confirm Kitfox Aircraft or Flying Cowboys can make it yet. Likely one rough flight down for those folks. Hopefully winds will lay down towards this evening some. Check your forecasts if flying. I will plan to be there Friday yet.

[Maverick]

I'm going to driving there on Saturday.
Maverick

[KitKarson]

The email I got from Kitfox said it doesn’t look promising for them to make it, bummer!

[jdmcbean]

Unfortunately we are unable to attend the Copperstate Fly-in this weekend as planned. Sorry we'll miss you, all our friends and the Arizona warmth.

[DesertFox4]

Forecast for Friday in Buckeye, AZ looks OK. High 67, severe sunshine and winds below 10 mph.
Sorry to hear John had to call off the mission.
I haven’t heard from the Flying Cowboys if they are still planning to come down.

[NinerBikes]

Friday AM, got in the air at sunrise from KWHP, pit stopped at L22 (Yucca Valley), got a great view of Joshua Tree NP in winter, and arrival at Buckeye was smooth and uneventful. Nice tail wind most of the way. Didn't look like but one Flying Cowboy made it in. Headed over to KGYR, where we had a room in town, for the evening. Loud planes were the Pitt Special and eZ 300 were doing the airshow thing, along with the Yak 110 with both prop and jet power. My ears were ringing for a while after that.

Headed out about 9 am Saturday from KGYR on a 270 heading, Quartzsite campers in their RV were still everywhere around town. Things were nice until we got to near Palm Springs. Fueled the RV-12 up at Bermuda Dunes, and got walled in by clouds, top to bottom at Banning Pass to the west, where we needed to go. Had to divert north over the high desert through broken clouds to blue sky to continue west again. Moderate turbulence with head winds constant 20 to up to 35 kts. It was a very bumpy, bouncy rough ride back home from Bermuda Dunes. Being in a LSA has it's limits. Glad we headed back home early on Saturday. The glass on the Dynon 1000 looked like a Pinball game flying north of Buckeye on Saturday morning, lots of aircraft in the vicinity and orbiting.

You gotta love flying to get bounced, spun and a few attempted unwanted wing waves, for 2 out of 3.5 hours flying into the wind, trying to get home. No glassy air in the cloud cover flying back home on Saturday. Felt a bit beat up after that flight. Slow going, not by choice. There was a tiny trailer there that made absolutely killer good fantastic burritos at the show... I ordered the version with bacon, it was delicious.

[DesertFox4]

Glad you had a good time with exception of the bumpy flight home. Jason Sneed of the Flying Cowboys was there for a while on Friday with his red/white Carbon Cub. All the northern contingency could not get down likely due to weather and work conflicts. Patey brothers also had other commitments. Hope they can get down for the Flying Circus in a week or so.

[efwd]

Flying Circus?

[DesertFox4]

Flying Circus is an anual event south of Goodyear, AZ. Jason Sneed has a video of the Flying Cowboys last year. The strip was built by friends quite a few years ago. It was called Big Tanks when the strip was put in originally. Now the present owners named it MoTown. It is on the sectional maps. We used to fly our Kitfox group in there alot. Now it is predominately an ultralight field.

https://youtu.be/EEFdTvFa3ls