2022-08-20 to Albany with Cindy
Channel: flysport
Date: 30/08/2022

Second flight with Cindy! We went for the $100 Chinese lunch. The morning was super cloudy, not a lot of people flying, weather was still pessimistic 90 minutes before the flight, but was scheduled to clear up. Sure enough, it did. There was a haze/cloud layer on our way out but otherwise I didn't have to worry about it. The lack of traffic was actually strange.

Odd thing happened: I tuned in to Hillsboro ATIS and the audio went dead. It was still transmitting, but no audio. It was a few minutes, long enough that I pulled up the tower and listened to both. The lack of traffic wasn't helping.

0:56 prep landing at Albany.
1:28 temperature inversion.
2:49 fun taxi to the restaurant, over a little bridge
3:11 pulling up Salem ATIS while I go past.
3:24 lol that complicated taxi renaming
4:00 "are you.. controlling anything right now?"
4:24 tuned in to Hillsboro ATIS and it .. went dead. No audio for several minutes.
4:48 it sounded like he said 21, not 31, was it just audio static?
5:03 brief my entry, call tower. Negotiate my entry.
5:37 downwind entry turned into base entry
6:26 we've had a lot of thermals
6:37 final at Twin Oaks