Allan Stern
Well Known Member
Saturday turned out to be a great day to RVATE. Since I am trying to overcome my anxiety about traveling out from my home airport (DWU) and locating other airports and talking to ATC I decided that I was going to attend the flyin at Lebonon Tennesee (M54).
The trip was uneventful except I did have some good headwinds going, speed was around 95/110 kts. Found the airport and had a nice time visiting and seeing the other RV's. After all I have to have my $100.00 burger don't I?
Was getting ready to leave, had refueled and was on the taxi way preparing for run up when my 6A seemed to be hit with a terrible blast of wind. So I shut down and got out to investigate and found out my front tire had gone FLAT!
Great, two hours from home and I am not anticipating that something could happen to ground me. Anyway I got a helping hand from Randy Hooper and another pilot named Robert (cannot remember last name). We got plane off taxi way, took off the tire and Robert drove me into town to find a inner tube patch kit. (Harder than one might think these days) Got back to airport patched the tube, reassembled the tire and got it back on and I was good to go. I wanted to thank these two gentlemen for all the help they provided me especially since I was the last to leave.
So now I will carry a spare tube with me, as those lamb tubes are hard to comeby, and a few more tools to be able to take the tires off.
Heading home I had 163 kts and 1 1/2 hours enroute.
The trip was uneventful except I did have some good headwinds going, speed was around 95/110 kts. Found the airport and had a nice time visiting and seeing the other RV's. After all I have to have my $100.00 burger don't I?
Was getting ready to leave, had refueled and was on the taxi way preparing for run up when my 6A seemed to be hit with a terrible blast of wind. So I shut down and got out to investigate and found out my front tire had gone FLAT!
Great, two hours from home and I am not anticipating that something could happen to ground me. Anyway I got a helping hand from Randy Hooper and another pilot named Robert (cannot remember last name). We got plane off taxi way, took off the tire and Robert drove me into town to find a inner tube patch kit. (Harder than one might think these days) Got back to airport patched the tube, reassembled the tire and got it back on and I was good to go. I wanted to thank these two gentlemen for all the help they provided me especially since I was the last to leave.So now I will carry a spare tube with me, as those lamb tubes are hard to comeby, and a few more tools to be able to take the tires off.
Heading home I had 163 kts and 1 1/2 hours enroute.
