rottydaddy
En-Route
It was a treat to fly in, even if I didn't get to fly until the last 1.3-hr leg from KUNV to KMMU (dropped off the PIC's son and got some fuel). Best part: I didn't have to nurse my Tracker 2000 miles, and my share of the fuel bill came out to less than my expected gas 'n' toll (and who knows what else) bill for driving there and back!
Arrived Wednesday in a very nice PA-32 stuffed with 5 guys and all their camping junk ... equipped with Stormscope Serial #1 (it's a long story), which helped big-time squeaking around the boomers near Erie .
My first time on an IFR plan IMC in a light aircraft (with quite a bit of IMC on the way out), and it was very educational. ATC along the way was very helpful, doing their utmost to keep things relaxed yet efficient. The whole dreaded Ripon-Fisk thing was no big deal at all, despite in-trail 1/2-mile sequencing because 27 was closed (an accident, but not the terrible Lancair accident... not sure what it was ).
I did OK handling that whale of a plane, although my pattern at KMMU was, in my opinion, horrific. Downwind was too close, then I tried to square it off when I should've just hooked it onto final (not very comfortable banking that thing). But I got it in there without doing anything stupid... and the hour prior, flying over the hilles of eastern PA at 3000 in the setting sun, was very nice. A loaded Six flies very well if you don't touch anything.
My schedule was a bit cramped, but I did get to see Diana- had a brief audience in her palatial Citabria campsite (thanks for the lemonade!), and got to see her compete with the F-22(?) during her presentation.
I know some other PoAers were there, but I wasn't sure who was who (I'm not very good with awkward social scenes) and started thinking about all the other stuff I was missing...sorry, but there's always next year.
Arrived Wednesday in a very nice PA-32 stuffed with 5 guys and all their camping junk ... equipped with Stormscope Serial #1 (it's a long story), which helped big-time squeaking around the boomers near Erie .
My first time on an IFR plan IMC in a light aircraft (with quite a bit of IMC on the way out), and it was very educational. ATC along the way was very helpful, doing their utmost to keep things relaxed yet efficient. The whole dreaded Ripon-Fisk thing was no big deal at all, despite in-trail 1/2-mile sequencing because 27 was closed (an accident, but not the terrible Lancair accident... not sure what it was ).
I did OK handling that whale of a plane, although my pattern at KMMU was, in my opinion, horrific. Downwind was too close, then I tried to square it off when I should've just hooked it onto final (not very comfortable banking that thing). But I got it in there without doing anything stupid... and the hour prior, flying over the hilles of eastern PA at 3000 in the setting sun, was very nice. A loaded Six flies very well if you don't touch anything.
My schedule was a bit cramped, but I did get to see Diana- had a brief audience in her palatial Citabria campsite (thanks for the lemonade!), and got to see her compete with the F-22(?) during her presentation.
I know some other PoAers were there, but I wasn't sure who was who (I'm not very good with awkward social scenes) and started thinking about all the other stuff I was missing...sorry, but there's always next year.