Westward Ho!!

Team PLANE DAMES left at 0805hrs in gloomy weather headed west to Lake Havasu, AZ with our first stop in Frankfort, KY. It was soft IFR up until 20 miles short of our destination, but the weather cleared and it was a visual approach into Capitol City.

Our next leg was a bit bumpy but clear skies, the only glitch was being rerouted around a hot MOA. Landing at Springfield-Branson in Missouri, we have called it a day!

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We Had To Whine A Bit Before Evansville Approach let us transit their airport (note the HUGE volume of traffic)

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.