Raleigh-Durham

Originally I was supposed to go to NC this morning with two guys, had a rental car in my name and a hotel, and I wasn't going to come home until tomorrow evening.  Woulda had two days, basically. Instead, I took one down this morning and am supposed to take the second tomorrow morning. We were supposed to leave around 3:30 pm today. I went into town, got breakfast, ate a big breakfast, figured I wouldn't be hungry again until dinner time, and I'd be home.  Instead, we didn't leave until 6:15 pm.  So we landed back at Kokomo around 9 pm, well after the airport was closed, so I needed to refuel the airplane in the dark in 29° temps because I'm leaving at 7 am tomorrow morning before they even open to bring me fuel.  I also only ate breakfast today until I got home and had some cashews, because I didn't know it would be 6:15 until we left, so didn't leave the airport after breakfast. Now it's almost 11 pm and I'd better get to bed, because I have to leave the house by 6:30 am, so another 5:30 am wake-up call.  Not one of the more fun couple of days.  It's usually these guys that bring the chaos and difficulty.

We also had wind shear, wind gusts over 20 knots, I mean the GUST factor was over 20 knots, which is a lot, and variable, and it was a bit of a rodeo coming in.  I also got to get my first PDC, which is "Pre-Departure Clearance", where you pick up your clearance via text message and email ahead of time, and don't have to get it from Ground or ATC.  You have to register your airplane, and everyone on the airplane has to have ForeFlight with the highest level of subscription. It's only specific airports.  So I did that, got my clearance texted to me before I even got in the plane, and found that to be kind of cool.

Now...bed time.  Another day tomorrow...