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| Our whole route as recorded on the iPad's "Foreflight" application |
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We're back. North Bay wasn't our favourite stopping place because
the hotel had a noisy air conditioner that kept us awake half the night; we have a few more complaints besides which I'll post on the Tripadvisor website. We were at the airport before 9 and (after PTN's engine made up its mind to start, being temperamental again for the first time since we'd left home) could take off for Ottawa-Rockcliffe before any clouds developed.
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| Little clouds over the hazy Algonquin Park |
We had hardly any wind at ground level and a little tailwind at altitude. We flew in hazy conditions again, across the Algonquin Park, past the old
radio telescope by Lake Traverse and, avoiding the military airspace around Petawawa, to the Killaloe VOR near the cottage country at Bonnechere, Round Lake and Golden Lake, where we turned slightly left onto the airway that leads to the YOW beacon. The Ottawa River beyond Pembroke was out of sight in the haze with morning fog in the valleys behind it, and on the last stretch of the journey, it was hard even to make out where Arnprior was, though we were just the other side of the Ottawa River from there. ATC kept us "no lower than" 4500ft on the Quebec side until we had almost reached the city, before allowing us to descend to very familiar territory and swoop in to Runway 09 at CYRO like a homing pigeon, Chris allowing PTN to do a rather steeper turn than I'd prefer over the Montfort hospital in order to enter our home circuit from the south.
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| A familiar view! |
Too many other aircraft at the pumps so we've postponed the refuelling––no more flying this weekend! We tied down, unloaded the luggage, forgetting the bag of dirty laundry in the back that we'll have to fetch tomorrow, and went to sit in the shade under the gazebo with Tony before he fired up his barbecue. After a while Laurie joined us too; Chris chatted to the men while I finished reading the last couple of chapters of a
Howard Engel whodunnit (set in a fictional St. Catherine's at the west end of Lake Ontario) that I've been reading on this trip, where the detective unravels the plot and ties all the loose ends together.
Here are the statistics for our trip:
Engine on-time: 30.2 hours
Time in the air: 27.3 hours
Total distance flown: 2494 nautical miles (4619 km)
Average speed: 91 knots (169 km/h)
6 comments:
I like the fact that for once nothing exists SOUTH of the border on a map.
Sorry, CWC, ruined your comment by changing the map and recognising Southern Canada (CWLH).
I did like the first one. Flightaware says the max speed on your leg to N. Bay was 310 knots. No wonder the engine was complaining!
I never knew there was an Agassiz Pool. Lake Agassiz was larger than Hudson's bay and that's all that's left?
Can't edit comments. Agassiz Pool is south of the border.
We considered flying "south of the border" but in the end decided to avoid the fuss of border crossings and the longer distance. The trouble is, not only did we have to find suitable landing places on this trip; we also had to find landing places with nearby suitable accommodation. In some of those towns, that would have been difficult. We did have an emergency tent with us, but no other camping equipment.
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