AdamZ
Touchdown! Greaser!
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Adam Zucker
Well the past two weeks have just been great for me aviation wise. First I got to see so many of you at the Wings FlyBQ then in the past week, a week ago friday to be exact a aboutlutly beautiful day here in the North East I get a call around 2PM from Gary Shelby. Who asks if I want to bug out early and fly in his Cherokee. Duh! Sure I do. I love flying with Gary! So we meet up at Wings and by that time the Haze is hot and heavy but the air was smooth. So we head down to the Northern Chesapeak to Massey Aerodrom MD1 in Maryland where his co-worker has a boat nearby. Massey is a grass strip in the middle of maryland farmland. On the way down we overfly my Alma mater the University of Delaware and I clearly see my Fraternity house. Ahh the memories. Gary put the cherokee down on the grass smoothly and we wandered around the small and silent strip. We check out an old DC-3 thats parked there and being restored. His friend never came down so after checking the place out we head back to Wings. I fly home and get my FIRST grass field take off. Thanks Gary. Now Gary due to circumstances beyond his control could not make the FLYBQ this year but still helped out big time. So I saved him some of Andrew's Pulled Pork. I froze it and bought it in the cooler to Wings and stuck it in their freezer until we got back.
We really didn't want to forget the Pork when we got back so intermitently I kept siging to the tune of Old MacDonald Had a Farm " Don't forget the pork, Don't forget the Pork, Don't be a total dork and don't forget the pork. " I figured If I was that outrageous we wouldn't forget the pork. We did'nt and GAry loved it. What an awesome first. did I mention I love flying with Gary.
Then just yesterday I get a call from a friend from the field. Who asks what I was doing at 6pm. Now This weekend is a friend's son's Bar Mitzvah and it is chocked with events, Services and breakfast thursday morning, Services and dinner friday night Then of course the Bar Mitzvah on Saturday with lunch and dinner later. So I say well I have a dinner tonight for a friend's son. The caller then says Oh I got an invitaion to fly on a Citation Bravo and can bring along one other person. To which I replied "I said I had a diner tonight which I will now be unable to attend
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We meet up and fly to Morgantown WV. It was awesome and climbing to FL200 and threading around the buildups that topped out at perhaps 23-25K. We actually saw lenticular clouds above the build ups and TS. I never knew they would be there just thought they would be on mtn waves. So we get to Morgantown we have to wait 3040 min for our clearance and by the time we are fed and ready to go the enitre Philly area is painted red and yellow on the Doppler. We wait another 20-30 min to see whats going to happen. It was very educational to confer with the professional Pilots of the citation as to how the evaluated the Wx. So they figure we can weave our way through.
We get out to the plane and the chief pilot turns to me and says so you wanna sit right seat on the way home.
. My response was " Does Raggedy Ann have Cotton mamaries?" At this point I'm figuring hey its ok if I go down in a TS because I'm FREAKING SITTING RIGHT SEAT IN A CITAION. Perhaps not such a big deal for some but for this Cherokee driver its ALL THAT and more.
Chief Pilot has me read the check list and do all co pilot duites explains everything to me and I'm happier than well you know what I'm happier than. He tells me I can do all the radio calls so we rocket downt the runway and we are light so we are off in a flash. zoom up to 4K in about 2 min if that and AP on. then more check list before you know it were at 9 to 10K and Chief Pilot turns to me and says " How bout I take off the auto pilot and you show me what you can do with this and hand fly us back to Wings. Now I have to tell you POA has no ICON to express how I felt.
MAN WAS THAT AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! I took it up to FL210 and the skys were lighting up around us but we were smooth as silk using onboard Wx radar The MFDs on this thing are NOT TO BE BELIEVED. We were IMC much of the way and it was so easy. Like playing a video game. But boy I'll tell ya these pilots have to learn some awesome systems. And Jet flying is so much more complex than Piston but ya know what the numbers are the numbers and thats what ya fly. So hear I am flying a Citation Bravo making all the radio calls and wondering if I didn't die somewhere earlier that day and go to pilot heaven. The Chief pilot of course did the landing but oh it was such a great day. Now I'm thinking "I gotta get me one of these." Oh funny thing is they used a 430 as their "BACKUP" nav. LOL.
I learned so much the plane is really neat. It has three (3) independent pitot static systems and three seperate glass panel systems. If I can't get one of these I'm gonna have to have shelby install the same avionics package in his Cherokee. Oh My I have been spoiled.
Following are Photos of my grass strip trip with Gary and some of the Citaition flight.
We really didn't want to forget the Pork when we got back so intermitently I kept siging to the tune of Old MacDonald Had a Farm " Don't forget the pork, Don't forget the Pork, Don't be a total dork and don't forget the pork. " I figured If I was that outrageous we wouldn't forget the pork. We did'nt and GAry loved it. What an awesome first. did I mention I love flying with Gary.
Then just yesterday I get a call from a friend from the field. Who asks what I was doing at 6pm. Now This weekend is a friend's son's Bar Mitzvah and it is chocked with events, Services and breakfast thursday morning, Services and dinner friday night Then of course the Bar Mitzvah on Saturday with lunch and dinner later. So I say well I have a dinner tonight for a friend's son. The caller then says Oh I got an invitaion to fly on a Citation Bravo and can bring along one other person. To which I replied "I said I had a diner tonight which I will now be unable to attend
.We meet up and fly to Morgantown WV. It was awesome and climbing to FL200 and threading around the buildups that topped out at perhaps 23-25K. We actually saw lenticular clouds above the build ups and TS. I never knew they would be there just thought they would be on mtn waves. So we get to Morgantown we have to wait 3040 min for our clearance and by the time we are fed and ready to go the enitre Philly area is painted red and yellow on the Doppler. We wait another 20-30 min to see whats going to happen. It was very educational to confer with the professional Pilots of the citation as to how the evaluated the Wx. So they figure we can weave our way through.
We get out to the plane and the chief pilot turns to me and says so you wanna sit right seat on the way home.
. My response was " Does Raggedy Ann have Cotton mamaries?" At this point I'm figuring hey its ok if I go down in a TS because I'm FREAKING SITTING RIGHT SEAT IN A CITAION. Perhaps not such a big deal for some but for this Cherokee driver its ALL THAT and more. Chief Pilot has me read the check list and do all co pilot duites explains everything to me and I'm happier than well you know what I'm happier than. He tells me I can do all the radio calls so we rocket downt the runway and we are light so we are off in a flash. zoom up to 4K in about 2 min if that and AP on. then more check list before you know it were at 9 to 10K and Chief Pilot turns to me and says " How bout I take off the auto pilot and you show me what you can do with this and hand fly us back to Wings. Now I have to tell you POA has no ICON to express how I felt.
MAN WAS THAT AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! I took it up to FL210 and the skys were lighting up around us but we were smooth as silk using onboard Wx radar The MFDs on this thing are NOT TO BE BELIEVED. We were IMC much of the way and it was so easy. Like playing a video game. But boy I'll tell ya these pilots have to learn some awesome systems. And Jet flying is so much more complex than Piston but ya know what the numbers are the numbers and thats what ya fly. So hear I am flying a Citation Bravo making all the radio calls and wondering if I didn't die somewhere earlier that day and go to pilot heaven. The Chief pilot of course did the landing but oh it was such a great day. Now I'm thinking "I gotta get me one of these." Oh funny thing is they used a 430 as their "BACKUP" nav. LOL.
I learned so much the plane is really neat. It has three (3) independent pitot static systems and three seperate glass panel systems. If I can't get one of these I'm gonna have to have shelby install the same avionics package in his Cherokee. Oh My I have been spoiled.
Following are Photos of my grass strip trip with Gary and some of the Citaition flight.
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