KLUD_Breakfast_031418
I did just what you thought I would do, used my computer's voice recognition software to dictate the captions for each image. Work smart not hard:-).
About 9 PM Tuesday night I got a text from my friend saying that they were going to Decatur for breakfast. Would I like to go? Yes…
I planned out the route above using my phone and Garmin Pilot at 5am Wednesday after a potty break - I had an hour to kill. Of course I just flew direct.
I think it would be a neat feature if you could pick a starting airport and destination airport and have your phone or Desktop computer auto calculate the best route over the most number of airports. Maybe you can already do it and I just haven't found it yet. I for one welcome our new A.I. overlords...
Texas has thousands of little runways and you can pretty much go in any direction and have something within gliding distance.These are grabs off the web based weather station about 3 miles north of our home airport. It updates every six minutes.
URL: https://aprs.fi/weather/a/EW4798The recent time change had me driving out to the airport in the dark. A 26 day old waning crescent Moon was just above the horizon as I pulled out of our driveway. By the time I got to the airport at 7 AM the sky was noticeably lighter. It has been several months since I've seen a sunrise from the airplane, so I'm very glad my friends talked me into doing this.
So you know how you think all of the airplanes are going to work? Well they aren't ;^).
Rob's engine instruments didn't power up so he asked over the radio if he could grab a ride with somebody else. This gave me a chance to take a nice photograph of the sunrise breaking the horizon while he flew the airplane.
00000KT and CAVU.
I need to clean that canopy more.A picture I took of Rob taking a picture of the sunrise. On the ramp at Decatur about 745. The airport manager was supposed to arrive at 8 AM, but luckily we found a locked key box for the courtesy car and after a few minutes of struggling with the instructions we got the key out.
It took a broken fingernail, dropped sunglasses and some research on YouTube on one of the phones to figure out how to open the damn thing. Four human brains = success!Rob trying to put the key back in the lockbox.
One of the planes went to Bridgeport to get some gas and the other jumped on my wing for some formation practice back to 52F. All in all a wonderful way to start the day with some good food and good laughs.
Back on the ground checking emails and starting the process of wrapping my head around the working day by about 9:30 AM. A late start to the working day, but a welcome change in routine.
Already looking forward to the next trip.
Thanks again for the text, Rob!
PS: Later I got this text from Scorch, "That is the most grotesquely planned 30 mile flight in the history of aviation." The perfect review .