Today was one of those days when most folks would think you couldn't fly a small plane. Tomorrow my buddies at work will say "betcha didn't get much flying in THIS weekend!", but they'll be wrong. I flew both Saturday and today. It was windy yesterday, but a good day to practice crosswind landings. Today it was calm but overcast at two different levels...no sun, but I still got an hour and a half in, with about 6 touch 'n' goes at my home airport. It was a great day to fly low and leisurely.
Most of today's flight was underneath HSV's wedding cake, in what passes for congested areas around here. It occured to me afterwards that in the interest of preserving my own butt, I never touched the throttle or mixture once I got to the altitude I was planning on flying at...about 2000'. I did a lot of turns and whipping back and forth, but didn't mess with those knobs on the panel. If I don't pull or push on those cables, they're not going to come loose and leave me in a compromising position. Still, I was doing 150-160 mph over a whole bunch of houses. It occured to me later that several hundred kids (who are as airplane crazy as I am) probably rushed out to see what kind of plane was flying over that fast, only to see it quickly disappear into the distance... Mark Langford N56ML "at" hiwaay.net website at http://www.N56ML.com --------------------------------------------------------
