My plan for the day was to fly down to Pat Shows' place in Mississippi to see his KR collection for sale, but I ran out of time and decided to just fly around the patch, literally. I did a big loop around Huntsville, landing at 10 airports in less than three hours, climbing as high as 6500' between airports, and burning 9.8 gallons of fuel in the process.
My main goal was to become more familiar with the iFly 720 and iEFIS as navigation aids, improve my approaches to strange airports, and to practice some crosswind landings. It was windy and gusty, mostly crosswinds, and I gained a little more confidence during the flight....didn't manage to roll it up in a ball! See enclosed flight path. I was pushing my luck with sundown on the way back, and started wondering if anybody's surveyed the LED nav-light and strobe scene lately. I think it's time for N891JF to sprout some nav lights and strobes. I have a new Whelan Comet Flash that I'll likely use for strobes, but I'm sure LED nav-lights have come a long way since I bought the three for N56ML over 10 years ago. -- Mark Langford ML at N56ML.com http://www.n56ml.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 150124_around-the-patch-s.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 104752 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://list.krnet.org/mailman/private/krnet_list.krnet.org/attachments/20150124/4d47fed6/attachment.jpg>
