Short but Good…

My weekend was not very long (had to fly out Sunday after so I could be at work for an 8:30 am meeting) but I did get to play with all of my toys and one of my friends too. It started out with a lovely Hot Air Balloon with Kirti from McKinney, TX to New Hope, TX. We had a perfect stand up landing in a field. After the flying I got a call from Larry who was going to take his Cesena Skyhawk for a spin around the area. So I jumped on the Harley and raced up to the McKinney airport and jump in the right seat of this beautiful brand new plan.

WOW…

I have 1.5 million miles of commercial airline miles under my belt but before Saturday I had NEVER been in a “small” plane before. WOW. It was everything I expected and even more of what I didn’t expect!!

The flight it self was not very smooth because of the temperature, around 100 plus on the ground caused lots of thermals at altitude but that did not take away from the greatness of the flight.

The most interesting part was Larry’s approach to the flight compared to my approach to a flight in the balloon. For the most part he can fight the condition where I have to work with the conditions.