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cookwithgas
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 Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:27 pm Post subject: A fantastic flight today |
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Guys:
Today I took a long lunch and met Jay Bannister at my hangar to go for a short flight. Jay is familiar with the DFW area and I was a little nervous flying so close to class Bravo airspace inside the Mode C veil. Jay talked me through some of the procedures and I contacted the tower and away we went. We flew around some huge towers at Cedar Hill, then over to Midway Regional for a touch and go, then back over to Grand Prairie with another chat with the tower. This was a thrill for me and much different from flying the vacant skies over the corn fields of Wahoo, Nebraska.
It was great to meet Jay who is a super guy and it was real nice of him to help ease my mind in the potentially busy DFW area. The airplane is making me so proud performing great after exceeding 131 hours today. It was a little choppy in the heat of the day, but the airplane is so sturdy and solid it was no problem at all.
Have a great day,
Scott in Texas
601XL/Corvair
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MikeinPE
Joined: 02 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:14 pm Post subject: Re: A fantastic flight today |
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Thank you Scott. This is the kind of messages that we need here. I've just started my project and know that it will be a few years before I will have the privilege of flying my 650, but its great knowing that there are many others that pushed through and made it work is inspiring.
Enjoy the new skies over Texas
Mike van Rensburg
650 Scratchbuilder in South Africa
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jaybannist(at)cs.com
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| Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 5:33 am Post subject: A fantastic flight today |
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Scott Laughlin is a Prince. He has graciously offered to let me fly his beautiful airplane to get some stick time in an XL before flying mine, solo. He invited me to go flying with him yesterday and I took him up on it. I was apprehensive, not about Scott’s ability nor about his airplane; just up tight about flight in general as a result of my accident. The choppy air didn’t help things, either. Scott is obviously very comfortable with his airplane and handled it very competently in the “bouncy” air. I have flown many hours in “bucking bronco” type air, but on this day, I didn’t feel that I knew his airplane well enough to fly it in such unstable air. In spite of that, I had a GREAT day - thanks to Scott.
Looking forward to many more great days,
Jay Bannister
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