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I have returned home after the fire was essentially extinguished. Fortunately the fire was stopped 4 mi from the Calaveras airport after a major effort from the firefighters. My hometown was also spared.

The Davis / University airport was my home for a week, and I want to thank the flight school “Flying Farmers” for their hospitality and help.

There I met the owner of this cool Aeroprakt AP-32 and we went flying together. With full span flaperons, it can fly very slow, and the visibility from the cockpit is great. One can almost look straight down. It has the most headroom of any LSA I know, even very tall people fit in it.

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I took this picture on Tuesday, right before takeoff from the Calaveras airport.

A big fire had developed to the south and was moving closer to the airport. I evacuated Caro 1 while this was still possible.

I flew a large detour to the south-east to clear the TFR (temporary flight restriction). This is looking north. Not long afterwards, the airport was closed and evacuation for people was mandatory in a large area around the fire, which continues to spread even 3 days later.

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I am back home from my trip in Caro 1 to Oshkosh. I racked up another 40 h of flight time and 3152 nm / 5857 km. This time it included a visit to one of my customers in Idaho, so the initial part was along a different route. I used the opportunity to visit Lander / Hunt in Wyoming, at the southeast corner of the Wind River range.

In order to cross it I had to find a thermal to climb high enough, here briefly at 14,000 ft / 4270 m.

On the other side, I had to get rid of most of that nice altitude, because the airport is so close to the mountains and at an elevation of 5600 ft / 1700 m.

A nice surprise was that the local mechanic sold mogas from a barrel at his shop. I wish more airports would adopt that concept. Takeoff had to wait until the next morning and cooler air, because of the high density altitude.

Here is the link to the Oshkosh airplanes video I made: https://youtu.be/Rb6sSekg7LU

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I also took some video to go with the motorglider trip report.

Here is the link to the video: https://youtu.be/hXj4GTEBJxQ

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I have returned from the longest cross country trip in Caro 1, this was my route of flight:

Here is the link to my trip report (pdf file):

https://caro-engineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Round-trip-to-Indiana-1.pdf

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