Phew! My wings still work!

Today was the end of my flying drought!! It turned out to be a beautiful March afternoon in central Illinois, so I pretty much had to take the opportunity to fly SOMETHING! 58 degrees, sunny, light winds…perfect! I dragged the ‘ol Comanche out of the hanger, pre-flighted, and she fired right up! The Comanche 260B is such a sweet flying airplane. Definitely one of my favorites on the spam can side of airplanes. My buddy Dan, who’s also a pilot, but not current, went along with me. He had never been in a Comanche before, so once we were off the ground, and I had some time on the yoke, I handed it over to him for a bit. “This is a nice flying airplane” he says. Yup.

We went down to Jack’s house to see if he was outside working on his new building next to his newly graded north/south runway (yes, he has an east/west at his house too…). He was. Razzle, his Border Collie, came out to say hi too! We did several passes down his runway before heading out to the wind farm to take a look at how many more they’ve put up. Amazing. 8 miles from a Class D airport, and there is a sea of 300+ windmills. I’ve heard that the power generated from these things isn’t even being used in Illinois! Anyway, that’s another story. Dan was doing the flying over the windmills, so I just relaxed, and took in the flight.

It’s only been a month and a half since I last flew, but it was a long month and a half. Taking the time to “just go fly” was something that I really needed. No reason other than to be in the air (and burn money…not that I’m complaining).

I called Jack once I was back on the ground at Bloomington. He answers the phone asking why I didn’t fly THRU the building!!?? I thought it looked like that’s what he was signaling…funny guy. Since it’s not done yet, it is open on both ends. Sounds like I’m gonna get some time in his RV-7 this weekend before breakfast on Sunday! SWEET!!! Motivation baby!!!

Hoping for good weather…

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