Making Airplane Noises

It was nice to see the sunshine again today. The temps were in the 40s, and it was finally a decent day to go aviating.

Steve, Kaylee and I went out to Kokomo, and I took up my first helpless passengers in the T-6. I flew around Kokomo just a little bit, flew over Glenndale, did a landing back at Kokomo to get warmed up, which went just fine, and then took Steve down to Sheridan for a flight lesson he had. Irritatingly, I whiffed that landing, and I have to say, if you're going to whiff a landing, the time to do that is naturally going to be on a skinny 50' runway in a crosswind in the T-6 with six old-timers sitting inside the building watching riveted at the view, and your spouse as a passenger on board to watch up close and personal. ;) Well, it wasn't pretty, but it worked; and hey, I got to log two landings on one approach...

I left Sheridan with Kaylee in the back seat of the T-6, and we flew back to Kokomo where I did a couple more landings, which were of course beautiful when I had no witness but a 7-year-old. ;) I was on final for the runway, and Kaylee piped up and said "You know what, Mommy? I really like the T-6. I think this is the coolest plane I've ever ridden in." I told her that she is in fact correct, it IS the coolest plane she's ever ridden in. :) She looked adorable back there-I wish I could have gotten a photo of the two of us together in the plane. Maybe another day.

The plan was that Steve would get a ride home from the pilot he was meeting at Sheridan, and I would take Kaylee home. That plan was foiled when I got back to Kokomo, got everything put away and cleaned up, and realized that I didn't have the keys to the Jeep-Steve did. I tried texting him out of a hope that they'd stop in at Kokomo during the flight, but he never got my messages. So Kaylee and I basically got to hang out at Kokomo for a long time. She had her Nintendo DS with her new Tinkerbelle game at least. When Steve arrived with the keys, we all stopped at Steak -N- Shake for my first food of the day. We had decided not to stop and get lunch on our way in at 12:30, so by dinner time I was starving!

Now I've got a full stomach, had three cups of coffee so I'm good and warm inside and out, and it's good to be home and comfy after a day of getting to gain a little more fun and experience in an amazing airplane...