Well it certainly has been a while since I last posted. I have no excuses so I’ll just get right back into the good stuff.
I started this blog for a few reasons, the most selfish one was that I wanted to have an indelible record of my flying. Not just a log of hours and aircraft types but of the actual feeling of what one experiences while going into flight training and beyond. I get really detailed in my flight posts (almost to the point of boredom I wonder) but I do this because I would love to be an old man telling these stories to my own grandson. In turn the posts are intimate and expose a bit more of my thoughts then one might do publicly.
The second reason is that I want to be an ambassador to general aviation. I believe firmly that these aircraft serve an important and vital role to the spirit of man. I hoped that by publishing my ‘secrets’ as it were that someday, someone could read what I had gone through and it might help them get through the same thing.
My thanks so far have been many, such as when you post comments and offer me sound advices. (Thanks cannot be said enough to Tony or David for their shared spirit and graciousness) and I have slowly made inroads into the airport subculture but I recently was lit up in am amazing way when a young lad who was nearing his own flight test leaned over my desk to say, “hey you have a blog right?” ”Yes.” ”Well thanks, it helped me to read some of the stuff you went though when I was going through it myself.” I almost fell onto the floor! What a great compliment to receive.
That really truly made my day. It also made me realize that I should post more often…….
So did you get to fly tonight?
I was standing in the Aviation Museum parking lot aprox 20:30 when a Cherokee that sounded alot like yours flew overhead. I watched it fly a circuit and land on 27.
That sounds bad that I am enough of a geek to recognize a particular aircraft at night solely by the lights and sound.
I love the power of RSS Tony, as you were commenting I was writing up just that flight in my next blog post! I hope that I made it look good from the ground, from the air it was quite sporty!