No work on the project the last two days. Sometimes a guy needs a break, last night I went to a free concert at Flatirons Mall. A country band called "Triple Nickel". They weren't too bad, weather was great, beer was cold. ;) Tonight I am heading out to FTG for a hangar BBQ and movie night with my RV friends: Gary, Caroline, Scott, Deb and meeting Paul Rosales (Rosie) for the first time. I'm looking forward to it, should be fun.
This morning I had a milestone of sorts in my young piloting career. My 500th landing! For a guy with 130 total hrs, I think 500 landings is pretty good...works out to 3.85 landings per hour flown. I pride myself in working hard on this facet of aviation so I do a lot of touch/goes to stay as sharp as I can. Mostly because its really a blast--my favorite part about flying, and secondly because I had such a hard time with it early in my career.
So my morning conisted of a 0500 alarm, 37 mile commute to Boulder, workout at 24hr fitness, grab the DA-20 across the street from my office at Boulder airport...fly over to Longmont and do 5 touch/goes. And be back on the ground tying down the airplane by 0730!! Not too bad, did more by 0730 than most people will do all day! ;) And there cant quite possibly be a better way to kick off a friday morning, or any morning for that matter, than being at the controls of an aircraft. I keep telling my non-pilot friends its better than sex!! They respond by saying, "you're doing it wrong!" haha! Happy birthday America!
The DA-20 waiting for me....Typical morning balloon launch in Boulder. I got an up close view of them on my flight. Was going to snap some photos but the canopy was a little dirty and I forgot to clean it before taking off.
This was a nice looking polished Cessna 150 parked on the ramp. I believe it belongs to a retired Air Force Colonel, by the writing on the side.
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