I used to live on a windswept hill in Aberdeenshire. Lots of rain so the beasts needed their plastic macs
Better half’s former research assistant (who worships the ground she walks on) celebrating the one year of her COVID wedding. Her dad was a Hornet driver, so half the wedding guests were his fighter pilot buddies. Stories to come later.
Not a bad way to spend a Friday night in Wilmington. 
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Lemme guess… She found your new LEGO sets and forced you into dressing up and going to a wedding? That’s cruel! 
I just realized I haven’t been to a party in years… Damn that pandemic!
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After a looooong hiatus. I finally took the plunge and re started my tailwheel training in the Eurofox.
I am looking to get 30 hours on the beast then take my Aero towing course.
It feels good to get back to basics with flying. Its a very easy trap to just fly around in circles in an SF25 and not challenge myself, so this is fun…
Its a bit of a handful on roll out but its a very nippy little thing. Ive got 4 hours on it so far and i am taking my skills test at 6 hours (its normally 5 but its been so long since i flew it I extended by an hr)
The Club has a beautiful Pawnee that i have my eye on so ive set myself a goal to work towards. I wanna fly the tractor.
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Nah, I actually convinced her we should go- the bride was her former graduate research assistant, and was a total rock star who still looks up to my wife- I pointed that part out, and took care of the hotel and other arrangements, and it’s fortunate that my sister was going to be in town anyway to watch the littles.
Seriously, we had a blast, and are both glad we went- it’s been since before the Pandemic that we’ve had a chance to get dressed up and do fancy grownup things.
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I remember when I was learning T/W, I called it ‘the dance’. 100% of the challenge of flying was encompassed in the few seconds from main wheels touching down to getting the tail down. Used to joke that you had to fly it all the way to the tie-downs. Best of luck, the rudder skills one learns flying T/W serves them the rest of their aviation career!
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@WarPig the Motor gliders i usually fly are just so benign that they basically fly themselves. If you have an engine failure at 300ft, you can (wind dependent) do a 180 and get it home without filling your trousers.
The whole picture of Single Engine piston and tail wheel has totally taken me back to basics. On the few lessons ive had before on the Fox, the instructor had me on final ar 3 degrees and about 200ft which after turning final at around 450-500 in the SF25 is actually terrifying to me.
But this time the instructor had me at 500ft and let me slip all the way down to 150ft and i was much happier with it that way round (if i do say so myself, im very capable at slip) and i lost so much energy in the sky that the “dance” became much less lively on the ground and way more managable for me.
So much so that i had fun flying it rather that the pit of apprehension i had before.
Tarmac next week though…that will be fun
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Awesome to read you’re flying again mate!
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Thanks mate
Fed up of work sleep work sleep. I need some fun injected back into me
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Compared to the shrubs, that grass must take a lot of watering, don’t it? Nicely kept tho.
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So, today I drove 2:30 to the inlaws to fix or replace my mother in laws mobile phone, that suddenly stopped working…
The journey took me straight through a large part of the Cold Response 2022 training area. The exercise is finished tomorrow and I expected to see a lot of military activity, but I only saw this sign, that says Military Activity.
I removed the battery from the mobile phone and reseated it again.
Phone working again, I had a cup of coffee and got in my car and RTB.
Mission Accomplished
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Well, clearly they have learned the value of not being seen 
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Just kidding of course!
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You’re the Dude. Just need a white russian in your hand!!
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