April/May 2008
The river crested Saturday at about 53’ two weeks earlier then when this flight was made .
Below are some before and after flood photos. The before photos were taken in October of 2006 and the
After during the last week of April of 2008




Figure 1
Before the flood photo:
Looking north from 5000’ 90 deg.00’ long. 32 deg. 44’ lat. (about 10 miles north of Mayersville) 11:04 am 10/8/2006



Figure 2 looking south from the same position at same time










Figure 3
Just after the crest of the flood photo
river at flood stage of 50.3’ picture taken looking south from 32 deg. 44’ at 3500’ 4/29/2008 at 1:54 pm




Figure 4 looking west toward the lakes north of Chotard lake, from about same lat. and long as previous figure 1:49 pm 4/29/2008














Figure 5 looking north toward Lake Providence from the same location at figures 5,6 4/29/2008











Figure 6 Eagle lake from the west side of the river at 4000’ 4/29/2008 (river at flood stage of 50.3’











Figure 7 looking north from 5000’ 91 deg. Long. 32 deg. 28’ lat. (about 5 miles south of Lake Providence) at 11:14 am 10/8/2006








Figure 8 roughly the same spot, 4000’ 4/29/2008 river at flood stage




Figure 9 looking south from same altitude and position, same date (10/8/2006) and time, toward Vicksburg





Figure 10 Same view afternoon of 4/29/2008




Figure 11 Two views of 1) Flooded area south of Vicksburg looking towards the airport and Letourneau 2) closer look at the areas around Letourneau. Both shots taken 4/29/2008 river stage 50.3’




Figure 12 picture taken at 2:27 pm 4/29/2008 flying over the city of Vicksburg looking at the areas flooded north of town from an altitude of 10,000’




Figure 13 View, 2:32 pm, from further up north of Vicksburg at 8800’ looking towards the flooded fields north of Redwood up to the Sartartia area. 4/29/2008






Figure 14 View of the flooded areas west of the Yazoo around Satarta from a lower altitude of 3500’






Figure 16 View of the flooded areas east of Valley Park around the Big Sunflower from 3500’. This picture was taken 10 miles west of the previous one.









Figure 17
Cockpit instrument rack as viewed from the pilot’s seat in an instrument flight rules equiped (IFR) Cessna 182, N8189G.
Navigational instruments:
On left of center there is clockwise from upper left : the altimeter, the two very-high frequency omni directional receivers (VOR) course deviation needles. These are tuned from the frequencies set in radios stacked in the second level on the middle (above the required transponder which identifies the aircraft to flight controllers. Finally finishing the trip around the circle there is the vertical speed indicator. On the right of center there is…moving down from the top from left to right .. the left fuel tank fuel indicator, ammeter, right fuel tank fuel indicator. Then on the row below that, again moving left to right …cylinder head temperature, oil temperature, and oil pressure . Below that the circular gages indicate engine manifold pressure and engine revolutions per minute (RPM) gage respectively . Note the Garmin Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) 300 receiver directly below the radio switch panel. Its moving map display allows for much better display of map and other routing information for a single pilot than previously.
The main flight instruments are not shown in this picture.
To the left of the altimeter there is the attitude indicator that the pilot uses to control aircraft pitch. Below the attitude indicator there is a turn and bank indicator used to control bank. Below the transponder there is the throttle, propeller pitch, and mixture controls that are used to control power. Below these controls are the elevator and rudder trim wheels that are used to make fine adjustment to the aircraft’s pitch and turning angles.