Dave Taylor
Well Known Member
My buddy Bruce Sacks let me fly left seat in his awesome RV-9 today. We took off from Perry, GA and headed over to Montezuma, GA where there was no traffic. He did an awesome job talking me through the pattern, approach and landing. I felt I was consistent with my speed and altitude and the approach always looked pretty good. When flaring I seemed to pull back a little too hard on the stick and put it in a very shallow climb. We did about 7 touch and goes before heading back to Perry where I made what I though to be a halfway decent landing. Hopefully I didn't scare him too bad. All this before he even knew it was my birthday. Thanks Bruce for an awesome start to my 43rd birthday. It was a totally awesome day and something I'll not forget. Hard to believe we put 1.4 on the hobbs. It seemed like 20 minutes to me. I'm heading out to the shop now to work on the -7. Nothing like a flight like today to motivate a builder!
