Saturday, July 22, 2006
This Much Fun Just Can't Be Legal
I got to fly in a Piper Cub with Dana yesterday and, as I suspected it would be, it was way more fun than any other flying that I've done so far! What a total gas flying low and slow with the windows open, buzzing the corn and trees, full slip approaches 180° from downwind to 3-point landing on wet grass... If this is the way America used to learn to fly, it's no wonder we had so many good stick and rudder pilots.
It was drizzling rain some of the time while we were flying, but the air was calm and cool and the rain kept other traffic away. It cleared up beautifully later in the evening and I could hardly bring myself to stop. We even visited a couple of homebuilders working on their airplane projects at Westosha and Galt. What a great time--thanks Dana!
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Memorable moments:
· the whistling of the prop when throttled back to idle
· the cloud of vapor in the prop blast when taxiing on the wet grass
· the feel of the rain on my hand out the window
· the mud sprayed up on the wing and strut from the wheel, then rinsed off by the fresh rainwater in the grass
· the curious coyote ducking into the corn, then watching us go by as if wondering how we could be having more fun than him
· seeing a different "sight picture" flying down between the trees
· taking off on the grass taxiway and buzzing the fields below the tops of the trees
· "hover taxiing" back to the pumps
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· the whistling of the prop when throttled back to idle
· the cloud of vapor in the prop blast when taxiing on the wet grass
· the feel of the rain on my hand out the window
· the mud sprayed up on the wing and strut from the wheel, then rinsed off by the fresh rainwater in the grass
· the curious coyote ducking into the corn, then watching us go by as if wondering how we could be having more fun than him
· seeing a different "sight picture" flying down between the trees
· taking off on the grass taxiway and buzzing the fields below the tops of the trees
· "hover taxiing" back to the pumps
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