When I was doing my preflight I noticed a gap between the rear cooling baffle and the fins on the cylinder. I didn't have the right wrenches to adjust it so hopefully I'll get it done before I fly again. Maybe I've found my cooling leak, we'll see.
This time I watched where I was going and didn't get lost wandering down to brother in-law Mike's Farm. I even flew over a school I recognized. It's Moss-Nuckols Elementary School about 8 miles south of Louisa, Va.
Mike's farm is just north of Kent's Store. It's the open fields to the right of the tree line running diagonally from the lower left. The gravel driveway to the right of the trees is along the right edge of his farm. His house is on the lower edge of the brown, harvested corn, field, under the flying wires. His property continues into the wood past the corn field. He has about 120 acres with lots of deer to hunt.
Leaving his farm I'm headed west. Left of the fuel gauge wire, about 20 miles out, is Monticello Mnt., then Carter Mnt. To the right is Southwest Mnt. and Gordonsville farther north. Charlottesville is straight ahead west of them. The Blue Ridge is another 20 miles west.
About half way to Charlottesville, along I-64, is Zion Crossroads. It can be impossible to see roads in the trees, but I-64 runs left to right just below the big white buildings in the middle. There's a saw mill and some other businesses in the industrial park at the bottom, and a nice specialty lumber yard.
In the next picture you can see I-64 at the wing tip The west bound lanes and entrance ramp are just in front of the leading edge. The big white boxes, starting at the wing, are Walmart, Lowes, and the 2 big buildings for the Walmart Distribution Center
The ever growing, high priced subdivision, with golf course, is Spring Creek. Fluvanna county, going south from this, doesn't like business so they have high taxes to pay for all their schools, etc. Louisa county has a Nuclear powerplant and is pro-business so we have some of the lowest taxes.
As the sun sets it's really lighting up the fall colors.
The big open field in the picture below is Sissy Spacek's farm in Albemarle county near Cobham.
Time to get on the ground before the sun is set. Nice shadows.
I landed about 10 minutes before sunset. I should have gone around the pattern once to let the sun set a little further. I waited until the airport was in the shadow of the mountains beside the airport, but the sun was in my eyes even once I was on the runway. Five more minutes would have been perfect like yesterday.
The arrow shows the top of the Blue Ridge Mtns. The visibility was very good, as usual in the fall.
I landed about 15 minutes before sunset. The sun was really annoying landing but pretty once I was parked.
