Mikey
Active Member
Boy, am I tired! Talk about a lot of flying - about three weeks ago, Louise started flying me quite a bit ? first with Paul in the right seat, then with a nice older instructor fellow out in Carlsbad (it was fun to see the mountains again!) for a week, and then with Paul again this last week. We did lots of oval patterns and approaches to various airports. Today we went up to Navasota where Louise left me out on the ramp for a couple of hours and said she?d be back with some sort of examiner after doing what she called an ?oral?. I thought the examiner must be a dentist (or worse)! I sat out there in the summer getting pretty nervous at the thought of being examined (hey, I just had my condition inspection a couple of months ago!), and was relieved when she came out with a fellow and I figured out that the exam was for HER, and not for me!
We took off and bounced around the sky for what seemed like a long time, approaching several airports, but not landing, and finally ended up back where we started. (The examiner seemed ot think that I was a real challeneg in the bumpy air doing those approaches, but Louise is used to it, and I thought she did great.) After more time waiting on the ramp, Louise came out alone and seemed happy and relieved, clutching a new piece of paper, but obviously tired. We flew home to Houston, and Paul was waiting with a bottle of something the two of them obviously enjoyed while sitting in the open hangar and watching the sun go down.
It?s been a long time since Louise started to make my instrument panel more modern and reliable, and I guess this is what it was all for! Now I am looking forward to getting to fly in the clouds more often ? the Val tells me it is a lot of fun! But for now, we?re both tucked away in the hangar and waiting for some storm from the tropics to whip through. I?m glad the hangar is well built ? because they say the wind is going to blow, and lots of rain will fall.
I?m really happy for Louise, even though when she was putting me away, she said something about ?I don?t think I want to fly again for at least a few days?.?
Mikey
We took off and bounced around the sky for what seemed like a long time, approaching several airports, but not landing, and finally ended up back where we started. (The examiner seemed ot think that I was a real challeneg in the bumpy air doing those approaches, but Louise is used to it, and I thought she did great.) After more time waiting on the ramp, Louise came out alone and seemed happy and relieved, clutching a new piece of paper, but obviously tired. We flew home to Houston, and Paul was waiting with a bottle of something the two of them obviously enjoyed while sitting in the open hangar and watching the sun go down.
It?s been a long time since Louise started to make my instrument panel more modern and reliable, and I guess this is what it was all for! Now I am looking forward to getting to fly in the clouds more often ? the Val tells me it is a lot of fun! But for now, we?re both tucked away in the hangar and waiting for some storm from the tropics to whip through. I?m glad the hangar is well built ? because they say the wind is going to blow, and lots of rain will fall.
I?m really happy for Louise, even though when she was putting me away, she said something about ?I don?t think I want to fly again for at least a few days?.?
Mikey
