Crossing The Ohio River

We Have To Start Sometime!

Handicap Runs

Lin with her beautiful airplane

Side by side after the handicap runs were complete

Lin Caywood met me at Lancaster and we did each others handicap runs yesterday. We had such synchronicity  - landing minutes apart and before our agreed time of 7:30AM. That was the good news - the bad news is that we aren't sure that the data for classic 15 is good so we will see. Today I met Carolyn Van Newkirk at CXY and then I met Alison Chalker at DYL. Hopefully they are viable runs. All the handicap flights have been completed.   My plane is fueled ready to go.  Now to just finish packing.

Time is running out

Time is running out to get things done.  Arnie washed the airplane and helped me put the numbers on - what takes me a week takes him only minutes to accomplish.

Another "oops" with Team Name - "PLANE DAMES"

Our team name of Air L'amour is being replaced by "PLANE DAMES" - sorry for the confusion.  Both names were considered in the running but Plane Dames suited our personalities better (we think).

Mary and I spent the better part of a day last week pouring over the charts marking our course to Lake Havasu and the actual race course.  We almost ran out of table space and magic markers!  I am now in the process of marking the towers along our way.

15 minutes ago I sent in my Mountain Flying course certificate to the Safety Officer on the ARC website - Mary was way ahead of me on this - now we are both "in compliance."

Let's hope for good weather during this race.

We have a team name - "AIR L'AMOUR"

I've been working on our logo with our team name - "AIR L'AMOUR" that we can add to our shirts for the race. 

Completed my BFR last week and am getting excited about flying with all these wonderful ladies.

Mooney Proficiency Course

Mary generously allowed me to ride along with her while she completed the Mooney proficiency course in Melbourne, Florida (February 17/18/19).  Not only is Mary a good pilot, she made all her instrument approaches so smooth I thought SHE was teaching the INSTRUCTOR. 

We both enjoyed the warm weather (it was snowing in Scranton the day I left).  It was a good class and I'm looking forward to flying again with Mary this spring;  maybe some right-seat time with her instructor back home in PA.

Thanks again, Mary - I learned a lot about your airplane systems and how we can WIN this race!