jspilot
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Today I went on a great flight. It was one of those spectacular days around me with little wind and no clouds and unlimited visibility. I asked my Dad if he wanted to come along and he said yes. I was pumped because I've only flown with him once in my 2 years as a pilot.
We took off, an interessting take off with a plane taking off the parrallel runway and a helicopter taking off the sod to the left of my runway, nothing like threading the needle, and headed east along the south shore of Long Island, all the way out to East Hampton. My Dad wanted to see the damage that Hurrincane Sandy caused to the south shore and check out his fishing spots out there to see how they were impacted. Needless to say, the damage was intense. Along the way, my Dad was pointing out spots and really loving it! We got out to East Hampton and I decided to cancel my flight following because our original intention was to go out around the point of Montauk, only about 10 more miles. Cancelled the flight following and literally 2 minutes later Dad turns to me and says- "lets go back to Islip( my home airport) I got to pee." I laughed and explained that I really need to contact ATC and advise them that we need flight following again( Islip is a class C and I don't like flying around without it.) I said, "Dad if I give ATC a call right now and ask for flight follwing again he'll think I'm the dumbest guy in the world." He and I had a good laugh and we headed up to the north shore and went back. As it is the approach controller joked when I called him back 5 minutes later to get flight following again- He "welcomed me back." Made it back to Islip and landed nicely and as we were taxing back I really just kept thinking how awesome the chance to do this kind of thing is. Flying and sharing these experiences just is awesome. Even after dinner my Dad is still talking about the flight, glad I had this day!
We took off, an interessting take off with a plane taking off the parrallel runway and a helicopter taking off the sod to the left of my runway, nothing like threading the needle, and headed east along the south shore of Long Island, all the way out to East Hampton. My Dad wanted to see the damage that Hurrincane Sandy caused to the south shore and check out his fishing spots out there to see how they were impacted. Needless to say, the damage was intense. Along the way, my Dad was pointing out spots and really loving it! We got out to East Hampton and I decided to cancel my flight following because our original intention was to go out around the point of Montauk, only about 10 more miles. Cancelled the flight following and literally 2 minutes later Dad turns to me and says- "lets go back to Islip( my home airport) I got to pee." I laughed and explained that I really need to contact ATC and advise them that we need flight following again( Islip is a class C and I don't like flying around without it.) I said, "Dad if I give ATC a call right now and ask for flight follwing again he'll think I'm the dumbest guy in the world." He and I had a good laugh and we headed up to the north shore and went back. As it is the approach controller joked when I called him back 5 minutes later to get flight following again- He "welcomed me back." Made it back to Islip and landed nicely and as we were taxing back I really just kept thinking how awesome the chance to do this kind of thing is. Flying and sharing these experiences just is awesome. Even after dinner my Dad is still talking about the flight, glad I had this day!
