The what is on fire?

Flight Info
Date:	09/03/06	Route of Flight:	SLC-ENV-TUY-SLC
Legs:	3	Total Duration:	2.9 Hours	Type:	VFR

This was a short flight to Wendover NV, thanks to my passenger Kurt for taking all the pictures. I have posted some pictures of the sites we saw along the way. Sites include; the Great Salt Lake, Bonneville Salt Flats and Wendover airport. Wendover is an old air force base where they loaded one of “the” bombs dropped on Hiroshima; they have a cool little museum there. On the way back to SLC we encountered a problem, not with our airplane, but with Salt Lake International’s tower. It would seem they had a fire and had to evacuate the control tower. So they were not letting any VFR traffic land until the tower was manned. Approach control is in a different building so they were able to tell us to go away. After circling outside of the SLC class B airspace for a while, we landed at Tooele and waited it out.

National Guard base at SLC

SLC's Parking and Terminal Area

Following Interstate 80
(VFR Transition Route out of class B)

Great Salt Lake
(Beyond the mountains are the Salt Flats.)

Bonneville Salt Flats
(If you enlarge this picture you can see a quite a few cars preparing to "go fast".)

Landing at Wendover
(This has to be one of the longest runways at an uncontrolled airport in the country.)

My Ride and The Old Control Tower

The Old Control Tower

One of the Displays at the Museum

Old Hangers and Cargo Plane

Refueling at Tooele
(That's your's truly on the phone trying to explain to The Woman that I was going to be late... she didn't buy the "control tower fire" story.)

Salt Lake City

Turning Final
(I thought this was a cool picture because, as a pilot, I am never starring at the ground just below me when setting up to land.)