Then Kaylee and I went up to fly the Champ. The winds were 290, so I took her over to Indian Hills where it wouldn't be (much of) a crosswind with Runway 27. First we did a pass down it to make sure the runway looked good enough, and it did. We did quite a few takeoffs and landings there, and by the end, she was pretty much able to do the pattern and approach without much verbal input. The level off and flare started settling in and looking more normal and stable too. She's progressing pretty quickly, is taking it seriously, and it helps that she's ridden through so many landings that she gets the general idea.
After that, when she was done practicing landings, she asked if we could fly over Greentown, so we did that. She asked if the plane could do steeper turns, so I said sure, and showed her some. She did a couple of her own then. She asked if it can do wingovers, and I said sure, and did a couple of those, which she enjoyed. She asked what else it can do, and I said "not much, but it can spin." She asked what that was, so I explained it briefly, and she said it sounded interesting, so I asked if she wanted to do one, and she said sure. I talked through it and did a spin, and recovered, and she said "Well, THAT was a hoot!" I explained the recovery again (PARE) now that we're not in the middle of it. She asked why you pull the power OUT when recovering instead of adding full power, like you do for any other stall recovery. Which I thought was a good question, so we talked about that for a bit. She'd done loops and rolls with me before, but never spins, so that was good. We had a good time, actually, it was a fun flight, and she enjoyed it too, I'm pretty sure.
When we got home, she and I went down to Breeze-Inn, met Steve, Chuck, Dale, Dawn, AE, and Ty, and had dinner. Finished dinner, came home, and Kaylee checked her email. She had stayed up until 5 am to finish that paper that was due, and submitted it at 5 am via email. Then later in the day she hadn't heard back from the professor, so she also submitted it via their submission app program. As of 9:45 pm she still hadn't heard from the prof that she received and accepted the paper, and the grade isn't in. The professor was supposed to submit the final grades by the end of today. So we're a little nervous that Kaylee spent two days including staying up through 5 am to finish the paper and haven't heard back that it got counted after all that. It was a good paper, too, I read it. lol So fingers crossed there that she hears back soon, that at least she GOT it, even if it's not graded already.
We've got a few decent but cool days in a row of weather coming up. Kaylee and I are planning on flying for several of them, and I'm planning on taking up the T-6 for a final hoopla before we take it down for winter and do the annual on for however many months that'll take this time. We are already scheduling people for training in it in the Spring. Three people so far. One from Texas, one from Michigan, not sure where the third guy is from. Plus I have a woman north of here who wants me to check her out yet this month in her T-6 that she hasn't flown in a couple years. The guy down in Terre Haute has dropped off with his T-6, but I'll reconnect with him a bit later and make sure we're still in contact. Things to look forward to!
Another total 9 pm night shot, which you can only tell because you can see the deck lights on. Wild.
Somebody just had *one* job. Spellchecker Fail.
A big ladder was up to change a lightbulb on the ceiling so I took the opportunity.
Gumby from Above. (And the RG in the background)
A view of about half the hangar
Kaylee on downwind Runway 27 at Indian Hills, turning base.
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