Seventy-two degrees, no wind, scattered cumulous at 4500??.and nothing on my calendar between 11:00 and 13:30! ?I?m going flying? I told my secretary on the way out the door, ?I?ll be back at One!? As I have said before, it?s good to work for an aviation-oriented organization?.and to be the Flight Safety Officer! Currency, you understand?
This was the kind of long lunch that just called out for some acro among the scattered cumulous, so I zipped over to my favorite haunt on the other side of Galveston Bay and got a block clearance from 4,000 to 8,000. With the puffies sitting between 4.5 and 6.5, that allowed me to do some strafing runs at the tops, and loops around the bottoms. I?ll never qualify for a low-altitude aerobatics waiver (and don?t think I?d want one), but I can get the same effect without the danger of hitting something solid by playing with the clouds?
There is something so liberating about a lunch hour spent like this. No regimentation ? just drive to the airport, open the hangar, and go?.it takes me 6 minutes to start up and taxi to the far departure end of our runway, then just 3 minutes to climb to 5,000?. How can it get any better than that? Even the guys that fly the jets around here are envious of the freedom I have with the Valkyrie!
Maybe we need to add another phrase to Van?s slogan book?.how about ?Total Enjoyment!?
Paul
This was the kind of long lunch that just called out for some acro among the scattered cumulous, so I zipped over to my favorite haunt on the other side of Galveston Bay and got a block clearance from 4,000 to 8,000. With the puffies sitting between 4.5 and 6.5, that allowed me to do some strafing runs at the tops, and loops around the bottoms. I?ll never qualify for a low-altitude aerobatics waiver (and don?t think I?d want one), but I can get the same effect without the danger of hitting something solid by playing with the clouds?
There is something so liberating about a lunch hour spent like this. No regimentation ? just drive to the airport, open the hangar, and go?.it takes me 6 minutes to start up and taxi to the far departure end of our runway, then just 3 minutes to climb to 5,000?. How can it get any better than that? Even the guys that fly the jets around here are envious of the freedom I have with the Valkyrie!
Maybe we need to add another phrase to Van?s slogan book?.how about ?Total Enjoyment!?
Paul