We woke up this morning to rain and low ceilings in Terre Haute, as expected. We were supposed to get up by 7 am to check the weather and decide. I woke up around 5 am again, could NOT get back to sleep, after only 4 hours of sleep, but I laid there anyway, looked at my phone at 7 and saw it said “no good”, and tried to go back to sleep. But my phone was on now, so I ended up with a ton of texts and some calls too, that kept jolting me out of almost sleeping. Finally I gave up, got up, got ready to shower, and I’m standing there with water running and no clothes, and they knock on my door with “Room Service”. I’m like…no…go away! Most hotels now won’t give you room service unless you ask for it, and I did not, and if I did, it wouldn’t be at 8 am! Buttheads.
I spent a lot of the day in my room again. This time I organized some things, studied some things, read some things, and answered a lot of phone calls. Three guys in TN have a T-6 and they want me to come down and check them out in it. A former T-6 client of mine who went and bought a P-51 and flies it around now, has a brother buying a T-6 and wants me to check his brother out. All those were in one day. I have another CAF guy waiting, and a CAF lady waiting, and a lady in MI waiting. I’m a busy girl on T-6 stuff, but the CAF stuff doesn’t pay, just the non-CAF stuff. So…they come first. ;)
Finally the weather lifted around 5:30 pm, and JP came and picked me up at the hotel, we went out to the airport, and flew BOB. He needed to fly from the right seat for his instructor checkout. We talked about the gotchas with students in the plane, the things they do that will put you in a bad spot, and then just ran through all the maneuvers. Shut the engine down all the way, feathered it, and honestly, the single engine performance of that airplane with two people and full mains is not fantastic. Put six people and full fuel on there and you’re not staying up. Maybe put 4 people and full fuel in there and you’re not staying up. We don’t fly it with full fuel, we leave the aux tanks empty, so that’s good. But it’s definitely a little anemic on one engine. Takeoffs and landings, with a decent crosswind, all that went well. So we went inside and filled out the paperwork and submitted it, and hopefully he’ll be an instructor in it by next week. He did a nice job.
His wife Kathy made me chicken salad sandwiches, chips and lemonade as I hadn’t left the hotel and there wasn’t any food here. So I ate that in the car on the way to go fly, and it was really good. I appreciated it. :)
Coming back in afterwards, ran into Glenn and crew coming back from dinner, good timing, and headed back up to the room to pack, do my logbook, do RallyPoint, upload photos, take my night drugs, of Magnesium and Melatonin (Hey, my M&M!) and write this.
Tomorrow is a transition to Toledo, Ohio. Safe travels and good flight to all.
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