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Last week I was invited down to my old college to speak with the Airport Management students about careers in Airport Management. Rather than drive down, I packed my computer and a few items in the airplane and flew down. What an incredible option to have! and boy didn't those students perk up when the word spread that I "flew down" in "My Plane" to see them.

What was essentially a business trip requiring three or more hours of driving in cut throat traffic was transformed into a mini vacation to visit my old stomping grounds, leisurely flying into the same runway I first soloed from more than twenty years ago.

Two days later, it's Saturday. I finish my chores at home and look up at the now setting sun. I decide on the spot that I must fly and head to the airport and an awaiting "Super Flea." The Airport is quiet. The winds are gusty and the sun is setting. Even the flight school has decided to pack it in and go home. "The Flea" and I beat around the pattern a few times, cruse the coast, then return to a landing as the sun is disappearing and the roads below are strings of pearls,lines of headlights march like ants to some unknown sugar bowl. I shut down and sit for a while just listening to the wind and the engine tick - got all the sugar I need right here.

I've owned my 150 for seven or eight years now, ditched the rental schedule and cannot picture life without it, at least I don't want to picture life without it. Do I fly as often as I should, No, not even as often as I'd like to. But I can any time. That freedom is there for me even if I don't fly on a given day.

What a great story that was....


There is simply nothing else that matches owning your own set of wings.....simply nothing.


Jim

just wonderering but if the feds found a Light sport pilot flying a Heavy c-150 what would the punishment be?

Whut Tactic said! Especially this last paragraph! Also Gary!

...especially when that set of wings are flyable.

Yep. Sometimes I have so many other things to do, it is hard to go out to the airport. But when I do, I never regret it.

It would be flying without a license. THat would be a civil penalty subject to a $10,000 fine for each occurance and suspension or revocation of the light sport license.

Oi, Noto!

I love flying my baby jungle jet, even if I have to play nice with the controllers.

I love flying my Cardinal because it is mine, and it is joyful to fly. It takes me wonderful places, like Colorado and dad's place in OK (and Grandma Dede and mother Jo — ma-in-law — and my mom) and we can do them in a day and not feel beat like we do in the car. And it's cool to do something most can only wonder (or cower) about.

Or, In some cases............. A couple, or several sets.





This could very well be one of the greatest threads ever!

Did that guy ever get any takers on that 150/150 for sale up in Grants Pass, OR?
It sounded like a sound plane, for a fair price.

Nice shot Hung.......I'm gaining on it....really I am.


The J-O-B has been all consuming lately.



Jim