I was flying a guy down to Greenville for a project. It was only in the 20s down there, too, until later in the day when it almost got up to freezing. This is stupid. :p
The flight was easy, nothing to talk about there. Just how I like 'em. Rocking tailwind one way, for a 1.5 hour flight, and a nasty headwind on the way home for a 2.5 hr flight. Big difference a little wind makes.
I was, however, unfortunately rather tired. I couldn't nap, because my phone blew up with people scheduling stuff. I had at least eight different people call or text in the couple of hours I was on the ground down there, setting up flights, changing flights, asking questions about flights, needing me to look up info on locations for flights, etc. It was non-stop until it was time for me to leave, and even then I was writing up an email of info right before I boarded. But I think I've got it all sorted out here.
When I got back at 3:30 pm, they had me run up BOB for an oil leak check and some maintenance checks. Everything looked pretty good on the ground, so it needed a test flight. I'm not allowed to fly CAF stuff after sunset, and that was coming up in 45 minutes, so they raced around and towed it into the hangar and put the cowls back on and towed it back out and I hopped into it, fired it up, and took it up on a test flight. First time I'd flown it since August, in Lincoln, NE. It has an issue with the right prop governor not being set properly, which I discovered, so I was able to get some specifics and details for that issue. The other thing that needed tested was the unfeathering system. The prop wouldn't come out of feather before, and it's been months being fixed. You can only test so far on the ground, so I took it up over the airport and shut down the right engine all the way, flew it around for a bit, and then attempted the unfeather/restart. We knew I might have to land on one engine and have to stop on the runway, and had a tug ready to go, but fortunately, she fired right back up and it was unneeded and uneventful.
Then it was homeward bound, where I've spent the last two hours moving around my schedule, updating my calendar, responding to people, checking weather, realizing Thursday in Pennsylvania may be a snow storm problem, and trying to get ready for tomorrow's flight to...where am I going? Oh, Ohio. Getting up at 5 am again...
Fuel leak on the right side in the Meridian
Traffic going into Atlanta as we were going by
Big circle rainbow out the wing on the way home from FL
Early morning 340 flight to Greenville
I like my sunrise photos
This guy looked homeless and sketchy. Greasy hair, couldn't walk, pocked face, and he was on the other side of the tinted glass. He started drawing, free-style and writing Christmas decorations on the windows for the restaurant. And he did amazing work. Looked like stencils by the time he was done, perfectly symmetrical, and all free-hand. He was a seriously good artist. I wanted to tell him but he was gone before I got done eating.
On the way home from Greenville in the pretty blue and white
Hi BOB
Sunset over the airport, coming in to land
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