Flying Private - Taos, New Mexico (KSKX) #aviation #pilot #mountains

B2Fam, what's up? Happy 2024. B2Aviation is back and today we're in Taos Valley, New Mexico. I'll be honest with you guys, had you told me to fly to New Mexico any time before today, I would have been like, you crazy as hell. There's no reason. This here is a real life Hallmark movie, okay? We're going to go over, we're going to check it out, and I'll show you how we got here. All right? Let's go. It's B2Aviation, baby. I got a 69 Cutlass in my slam. The young, thick, fine, yellow with me looking bad. ThunderCat swag, so you know they on deck. Triple D to see this, so you know we gon' rap. Drop the, drop the, couple screens in my motherfucking top. Rocked in my chain, got me pulling all the bobs, uh, I know you won't look at that, on the ride, because I got that front, back, and side to side, baby. Grey Approach, Grumman 8968L with a flight following request. Grumman 8968L, Grey Approach, go ahead. I would like to request flight following, a 6500 type Grumman Alpha Alpha 1 Bravo. Currently, right on top of Skylark. Grumman 68L, roger, you said 5500 or 65? Uh, we'll go 6500. Grumman 68L, squawk 5257. 5257, 68L. November 68L, radar contact, 1 mile south of Skylark at 2900 Grail, 10-30-30. 30-30, 68L. Qradar service terminated, squawk VFR, have a good day. Alright, y'all, powered off the engine. I'm gonna head inside, we're gonna use the restroom, I'm gonna get me a little bit of water, and then, uh, once I'm in here and we take back off to the next place, I'll check back in with you guys, so I'll see you guys in a little bit. I'm out here at Snyder, Texas. Winstonfield Airport, super nice, cleanest bathrooms I've seen so far. You know, every time I go somewhere, I have to review the airport. I have to tell you, this is small and nice, this is exactly how I like it. This is why I fly General Aviation. We're gonna get back out to the plane, we're gonna take off, we're gonna head to the next spot, and I'll keep you guys posted when we get out there. Let's go! Alright, y'all, I am back in this thing. As y'all can see, it was a tiny little airport, but that's exactly why I love General Aviation, right? Because I don't have to deal with tons of people, I don't have to deal with all the germs and all the coughing, and as much as I love kids, the screaming kids, um, but that's why I love it, right? To get to stop in remote places that you can't get to with big jets. And, uh, this particular airport, man, I feel like just the hospitality, like you feel it as soon as you walk in. And it felt like Christmas. Um, the guy at the front was very nice, if I got to get his name, but definitely shout out to you guys out here in Snyder, Texas at Winston Field. You guys, uh, killed it here at the FBO, man, I appreciate all the hospitality. Alright, so, uh, we're taxiing back to 26, we're gonna get up out of here, we're gonna go fly north, we're gonna try to go to, how do you pronounce that, Moriarty Municipal in Moriarty, New Mexico? Yeah, we'll try that. And then, uh, we'll go up to Taos from there. Alright, as y'all can see, there's a broke down fighter jet over there, but this is some more stuff that you don't get to see with your general airliners. Alright, we're gonna use up all of 26, so we're gonna turn left here, cameras, so we are clear. Winston traffic, Grumman 8968L, taking runway 26 for departure, Winston. Alright, airspeed is alive, instruments are green, coming up on 60, we're still running, we're still running, there we are, yeah, alright, let's get off the ground, and we're up. Snider traffic, N15264 is a left downwind for 35, Snider. We've got the traffic in sight, blow us departing. Alright, Snider traffic, 8968L, upwind 25, we'll be departing traffic pattern to the north, Snider. I got a text from a friend, uh, who actually said flying to Santa Rosa, which is, uh, Sierra X-Ray Uniform, so maybe I'll go in Santa Rosa instead. Um, I mean, he recommended it, so I've got pretty high expectations of this place, don't know why I've never been there, but we'll go check it out, let's go to Santa Rosa. We're about an hour and 42 minutes into this flight now, cruising about 8,100, um, seems like it's smooth as here, I did contact, uh, the center, and requested anything between 8,000 and 9,000, just so I can have a smooth ride here. Um, like I said, we're going to go to Santa Rosa, and, uh, that just happens to be on Route 66, which is, uh, actually kind of another reason why I want to land there, just to check it out, I know my uncle is a big fan of Route 66, is a very, very old school fan of, uh, Cadillacs, so, shout out to my uncle Andy. Been about 87 knots, still got a lot of headwind, see my first glimpse of mountains over there in the distance, those are at about 13,000 feet, I will not be able to go over those with this plane, so after we land in Santa Rosa, we have to fly around the bottom of them, and come back out in the middle, and go all the way up to Taos. About another hour or so here, and we should be in Santa Rosa, hopefully I get some tailwind, that would be great, speed up this trip a little bit, but you can see the amount of absolute nothingness below me right now, that's why I honestly prefer flying to the east or the northwest, it gets greener to the east, and it just gets drier to the west. There is a restricted area that we're going to have to fly around, because I am not on flight following, and I don't really feel like talking to anybody right now, I just want to fly, I'm still enjoying it, enjoying the peace and quiet, this is like, like my meditation, if you will, this is where I clear my head, get rid of all the stress, but at this point in the flight, this is usually when pilot fatigue kicks in for people, because it's so redundant, I've just been coasting along, nothing's changed, but this is where the most can go wrong, right, so to most of y'all, y'all see a lot of nothingness below me, I see a lot of emergency landing spots, so that's what I'm constantly scanning for, is emergency landing spots, so just in case the engine goes out, or any failure occurs, something catches fire, I can get down with a haste and make a safe landing, one that won't kill me perfectly, but yeah, we'll go ahead and ride this out just a little bit longer, and then I'll check back in with you all right, sounds good, so winds are calm, we're going straight for zero one, and then we will taxi over to the FBO to get some fuel, this one is self-serve only for what I'm reading, but that is a-okay, I don't know about y'all man, but I'm absolutely loving this open roof concept, and if I really wanted to right now, with the canopy up, while I'm on the ground, I could open this canopy up, and during the hot summer day, fly with it as like a convertible, so that's another thing I like about Grumman's, right, Grumman's are like, oh, I should have got this in the first place, man, I love this damn thing, but yeah, as you can see, we've got mountains starting to form here to the right, over in the distance, we've got snow-capped mountains at 13-5, and as soon as we get done here in Santa Rosa, we're gonna go ahead and fly due west to head in between two mountainscapes, and hopefully it's not too windy over there, but it will be, I already know, so we're gonna fly over them, they're pretty low, like 6,500, so we'll go over 8,500, maybe even 9,000, depending on what the wind looks like, and then we'll go up northeast, which will take us directly to Taos, or Teos, I don't know how to pronounce it, you guys correct me in the comments below if you know how to pronounce it correctly, I don't know if it's Taos or Teos, I'm sure the AWOS once I get there will tell me, but for right now, I don't know, so correct me if you can. All right, getting closer, about 16, 17 nautical miles, doing about 93 knots, which is embarrassing, but it is what it is. All right, field elevation over here, I feel elevation is 4,791, so we have to come in at 5,800, we're currently 7,300, slowly dropping a little bit, and I am fully excited about what is to come. My GoPro batteries have been dying, but I keep four power banks with me, as well as a charger, and spare batteries, so these are charging while the other ones are being used, but GoPro, if you want to go ahead and send me some new batteries that last longer, I would appreciate that as well. By the way, shout out to Dapper Dom, who is sponsoring this video, he's my business partner for sure, man, B2 Investments, if you didn't know, this is what we do, getting to the money, and if you're in the Central Texas area and you're interested in flight training, JB is actually a CFII, and if you reach out, he may be able to get you trained up, just like he trained me up. JB, by the way, who today is in disguise as well, just in his airliner, he flies the Ember 175, I believe it is, and that puppy is sweet. We actually played it on a Microsoft Flight Simulator, it was nothing like real life, is what he said, but I enjoyed flying it thoroughly. Unfortunately, I have no ambitions of ever going to the airline, but to everybody that is looking to go to the airline, man, definitely get your ratings in and get it done. There is no excuse for why you can't do it. Okay, yeah, it's expensive, figure out a way to get the money and get it done. No excuses, man, 2024, there's no excuses, we're going to grind, we're going to get it how we get it, and we're going to make it, we're going to make it to the top. All right, so let's get into it here in Santa Rosa. Santa Rosa traffic, Gorman November 8, 9, 6, 8, Lima is approximately 15 to the south, we're at a straight in runway 01, the full stop, Santa Rosa. We'll do two notches, and it's looking good, this is looking fantastic. All right, we'll pull the power, oh, butter, butter, yeah. All right, y'all, so we're here in Santa Rosa, I will check back in with you guys when we make it all the way to Taos, peace.