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Weekend Update

It was a busy but fun weekend. It started on Friday when I headed out to Campbell Airport to meet up with a friend from ground school and go for a ride in her and her husband's new used airplane, a 1981 Piper Archer.

On the way to the airport, I stopped to shoot a few of the locals. Click for a larger version and you'll see that there are some nice racks out there.



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There was a ton of commercial traffic heading out west for the evening. Check out all of the contrails in this picture.



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Since sunset was coming up quickly, we weren't up long, but it was a nice evening flight. I have over 70 hours of flying, and believe it or not, this was my first time as a passenger in a light airplane. It's nice, there's a lot more time for looking at scenery and taking pictures. Here's where we went.







SATURDAY


It had been a few months since I got some stick time of my own, but the only time I was able to reserve an airplane at Westosha was on Sunday, and the weather was looking to not hold out for me (after a mostly gorgeous week). On the way home from my flight with Lindy, I decided to call the scheduler again, and to my surprise, someone had canceled their flight for Saturday morning. I booked Cessna 172, N9815L from 11:30 to 1:00 P.M. It ended up being a beautiful day to fly. I didn't get to take too many pictures since I was busy flying and stuff, but I snapped a few of where A. and I were married.



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After that, I turned towards my old home base, Campbell Airport (C81) and realized just how strong the wind was coming out of 180. I was bearing about 100 degrees, though the heading out the nose of the airplane was more like 140 degrees. WINDY, but incredibly smooth, considering the forcast said it'd be a bumpy day. I did one landing at C81 and while I was waiting my turn to take off, I snapped a picture of a few other people taking advantage of the beautiful break in the weather.



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After an uneventful takeoff and a short hop, I was coming up on my current home base of Westosha Airport (5K6). You know you're close when you see Wilmot 'Mountain' ski hill.



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I shot two landings back at Westosha refuled the plane and handed it off to the next guy. I only logged 0.8 hours, but I got in three landings to refresh my 90 day currency so I am able to take passengers again.





It's amazing how happy flying makes me. I smiled like an idiot the whole way home. Getting to have the top down on a 50+ degree day in February didn't hurt, either.



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All of that by 1:00 P.M., and I wasn't even done yet. After this, A., the wunder-hund Martini and I went and found our first geocache, but that write-up is going to have to wait for another day.

Posted by oblivion at February 6, 2005 09:19 PM | Technorati Tags: