JCranford
En-Route
My wife and I flew down to see my sister last Friday and take her for a ride with the new pilot. Without getting into the gory details of the flight home which included a thunderstorm, deer on the runway, and a night flight just outside DFW airspace we met a really nice guy at KWEA.
We landed there to wait out the t-storm over KDTO and were discussing having a pizza delivered to the (closed) FBO while we waited. KWEA has some nice houses / hanger on the west side of the runway and we saw a guy sitting in his hanger so decided to go over and talk to him.
During the conversation we mentioned the pizza idea, so he says "Why don't you take my Jeep and go into town and get some dinner?' Really!? You met me 3 minutes ago and youre going to let me borrow your Jeep!??
Well, ok, so off we go to get some Cajun at Boo Ray's (great food!).
We return and he has checked the weather for us (which we had been doing as well) and declared us cleared to make it home.
Made it home ok and were really grateful for the stranger we had met who made an unintended landing something very nice.
We landed there to wait out the t-storm over KDTO and were discussing having a pizza delivered to the (closed) FBO while we waited. KWEA has some nice houses / hanger on the west side of the runway and we saw a guy sitting in his hanger so decided to go over and talk to him.
During the conversation we mentioned the pizza idea, so he says "Why don't you take my Jeep and go into town and get some dinner?' Really!? You met me 3 minutes ago and youre going to let me borrow your Jeep!??
Well, ok, so off we go to get some Cajun at Boo Ray's (great food!).
We return and he has checked the weather for us (which we had been doing as well) and declared us cleared to make it home.
Made it home ok and were really grateful for the stranger we had met who made an unintended landing something very nice.