I know, I was admiring that beauty myself. We're on our way home from Potsdam (looking at Clarkson University) and could see that monster all the way from Watertown.
Glad to see you are getting use out of that fresh certificate. Flying a lot these days? Not much actual IFR this summer for me. Even with this commuting-by-air thing twice a week I am going to need to hire a flight instructor and go under the hood for some approaches to minimums. Haven't flown an instrument approach in low actual IMC in a few months now.
Was the airplane red and white? If so, that was me...and I wouldn't exactly call it "whipping." It would be more like a slow 90 kts GS.
I didn't see the aircraft; I was going by the radio calls on the frequency. The haze yesterday was just enough that I couldn't spot any en route traffic, and this is with a mode S transponder displaying traffic on the moving map to help. You may have been putting along at 90 kts, but I was screaming <G> along about about 190 kts thanks to the more friendly tail wind, so the closure rate between us was more like 290 kts.
I have pointed this out before, but we really need to get a Rochester, NY, feed up and running. I was considering approaching Landmark Aviation there on the field to ask them if they would be interested in hosting a feed in exchange for advertisement here (as the other major feeders do), but I have yet to have a need to land there since becoming involved here. Posting a LiveATC.net poster there might pull a volunteer out of the woodwork, though. Do you have any contacts there?
Another cool feed would be Elmira, NY, when NASCAR comes to NY's Watkins Glen track. Elmira/Corning airport hosts something like 300 corporate aircraft during that weekend, which occurs during the second week of August. If I had equipment I would consider bringing it down there to scan the arrivals and departures during race weekend, but alas the soon-to-be KLAX feed will be utilizing it.
