Sunday morning March 24, 2012 I arose from sleep at the crack of dawn. Looking outside I could see a hint of fog on this cool crisp spring morning. A quick shower and a coffee and I was off to the airport. I listened to AWOS via cell phone during my long 1.5 mile drive to the airport. Weather was calling winds at 7 straight down 03 with clouds broken at 800'. Looking up at the sky it looked like long rows of cotton with plenty of blue skies in between. I pulled my KR Vair from the hanger into the glistening sun for her wake up call. Once she was all ready to go, the Vair fired right up and it was off to 03 with anticipation of the morning flight. The run up was as normal as it has been ever since I had the experts build my engine for me three winters ago. Yep this will be my third flying season on this engine with not so much as a hick up. Anyway, I called the takeoff and firewalled her. We were airborne in the cool air in a matter of seconds and she climbed to the bottom of the clouds at 800' AGL in just another few seconds. I turned towards blue skies between the row of of floating cotton and continued to climb to 2500' where we were on top. Oh my God, what a sight.! Row after row of of endless fluffy clouds that simply took my breath away and made me glad I was a pilot. I could not phantom why there were no other pilots in the skies over Stevens Point. The air was the smoothest I had ever experienced. If only I had had a glass of Champaign sitting on the dash. That would have made for the coolest photo ever. I did grab my phone and took a video. I will get my kids to post it on You Tube later for you to enjoy. I never did go any higher than a few hundred feet over the clouds as I just could not see any reason to leave such a beautiful scene. Staying low over the clouds really gives you an appreciation of just how fast you are moving across the sky. It was simply exhilarating. After about an hour, I was running low on fuel so I had to return to reality. Up to the pumps, full of fuel and ready to go again later today. THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mark Jones (N886MJ) Stevens Point, WI E-mail: flyk...@charter.net Web: www.flykr2s.com
