Mike Sylvester wrote: > Hey Guys,SERFI (Southeast Regional Fly In) is this weekend in Evergreen > Al. Our Birmingham EAA chapter no.152 will be doing most of the judging. > If the weather holds,I'll be there. All of you are welcome. Check out > there web site at www.serfi.org . <
OK, thanks for the heads up. I'll make this one, assuming weather isn't dismal. I keep planning to make it, but always hear about it AFTER it happens. But it's my bad memory that's to blame. Evergreen is about 17 minutes (by KR) from my father's farm, and since I was already planning on visiting him, count me in. Maybe I can do breakfast at his place and spend Saturday afternoon in Evergreen. Speaking of breakfast, I got up early Saturday morning and flew the 14 miles to Moontown (3M5) for breakfast. That's not something I do very often, but felt the need to do something involving flying when I got up, and that one was easy. I met a guy and his buddy there from Springfield Illinois. I asked if that wasn't a long way to fly for breakfast, and he pretty much had the same problem I had..."I woke up planning on lunch in Missouri, but what do we do between now and then?". His answer was to fly to north Alabama for breakfast to kill the time! Even I'm not that bad. But I did hit three more airports with several touch and goes at each on the way home. Today was sort of a repeat, except it was closer to sundown when I got started. I probably did 12 touch-and-goes between three airports. Only a couple of them involved shock waves. Airports in Alabama are pretty plentiful. On climbout I can easily see two more besides mine. It was a really clear day today, with calm winds. It was a great day to practice landings for "perfect" weather, but how often does that happen? So my last landing of the day was a spontaneous simulated engine out, from an "unusual attitude" at 3000' from outside the pattern. That landing was the best of the day, greasin' on a three-pointer after a nice full rudder slip down to the runway. Because it was so clear today, the sunset was a non-event. But I found an even better one from Thursday night, and it's at the top of http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/sunsets/ . This looks like something you'd see on Venus, maybe Jupiter. Yes, I did Venus on Thursday afternoon... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL website: www.n5...@hiwaay.net email: N56ML at hiwaay.net
