mrindian
Pre-Flight
My trip started before the trip.
First I had to mention while on a trip to home depot to my wife that I bought a plane a couple of days ago, and all the reasons why we need two planes, and her horse barn would have to wait another year....
Then a few days later I mentioned, honey, how would you like to spend our 18th wedding anniversary going to a nice restaurant in Los Angeles? and by the way after we eat, could you drop me off at LAX so I can fly to Boston to pick up the plane?
Luckily, I have a very understanding wife!!! blush Just last month I spent 10 days flying to Oshkosh in my Cardinal, home for one week, left to get the T6, now I'm home for one week, and leave for Davenport Iowa for 10 days for a antique motorcycle meet. Did I mention, I'm very lucky!!!!!
So on Sunday 08/12/12 I take the 2200 redeye nonstop to Boston. It's hard to sleep on a jetliner, but when you are excited it's even more so! I have the POH with me, and reading it during my trip for the 2nd or 3rd time.
I arrive in Boston at 0630 after no sleep. Daniel Wotring, my primary flight instructor arrive the previous Friday to check out the plane, and give it an initial familiarization flight. He picks me up at Logan Intl and we head over to Lawrence for our flight home.
He had a list of a few squawks for the mechanics to finish. Too much air in the landing struts, bleed brakes. While waiting for that to finish, we start the paperwork, look over the logbooks, sign a bunch of paperwork, get copies of everything.
Then it's back to the plane and start packing our stuff. Daniel say's this plane has the small luggage compartment. We didn't realize until later when we were told, thats because we have the swivel rear gunner seat, and you need a place to put your knees, so the baggage compartment is smaller. I should have taken a picture, it's amazing we fit everything in there. Including 4 gallons of oil they gave us for the trip home.
My First time with the new plane (Look under the wing and you can see part of our luggage)
First I had to mention while on a trip to home depot to my wife that I bought a plane a couple of days ago, and all the reasons why we need two planes, and her horse barn would have to wait another year....
Then a few days later I mentioned, honey, how would you like to spend our 18th wedding anniversary going to a nice restaurant in Los Angeles? and by the way after we eat, could you drop me off at LAX so I can fly to Boston to pick up the plane?
Luckily, I have a very understanding wife!!! blush Just last month I spent 10 days flying to Oshkosh in my Cardinal, home for one week, left to get the T6, now I'm home for one week, and leave for Davenport Iowa for 10 days for a antique motorcycle meet. Did I mention, I'm very lucky!!!!!
So on Sunday 08/12/12 I take the 2200 redeye nonstop to Boston. It's hard to sleep on a jetliner, but when you are excited it's even more so! I have the POH with me, and reading it during my trip for the 2nd or 3rd time.
I arrive in Boston at 0630 after no sleep. Daniel Wotring, my primary flight instructor arrive the previous Friday to check out the plane, and give it an initial familiarization flight. He picks me up at Logan Intl and we head over to Lawrence for our flight home.
He had a list of a few squawks for the mechanics to finish. Too much air in the landing struts, bleed brakes. While waiting for that to finish, we start the paperwork, look over the logbooks, sign a bunch of paperwork, get copies of everything.
Then it's back to the plane and start packing our stuff. Daniel say's this plane has the small luggage compartment. We didn't realize until later when we were told, thats because we have the swivel rear gunner seat, and you need a place to put your knees, so the baggage compartment is smaller. I should have taken a picture, it's amazing we fit everything in there. Including 4 gallons of oil they gave us for the trip home.
My First time with the new plane (Look under the wing and you can see part of our luggage)
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