2010 season finaly open

Finally the time has come to refresh my acquaintance with 79J.

It was over three months since I flew last time. For all that time either weather or schedule did not cooperate but today the weather was almost perfect and I really needed something to take my mind completely off of everyday problems. So I went to the airport and did the preflight. When the time has come to pull the Cherokee out it turned out that grass is so soft that there is no way I can do it on my own. Fortunately I had another Cherokee with me that one equipped with nice 10500 pound winch up front. So I used one to pull out the other.

After that it was just a regular thing. I was pleasantly surprised that after all those months of siting on the ground all my landings were soft enough to qualify them as almost greasers Looks like when you really focus on what you do and keep watching the airspeed everything comes up nicely almost by itself.

I was running low on time so I did only two touch and goes. After third landing I taxied back to the parking spot and again using my other Cherokee pulled the Piper back in.

it was really good to be back in the air. Even though it was just 0.4h it made me to completely switch off my ‘regular’ brain and turn on my ‘flying’ one. I’m very fresh pilot and flying still demands 100% of my brain to do it safely. That king of ‘distraction’ from my regular routine works wonders. And the nicest thing – I’m current again!

0.4h/0.0h inst : 3 to/ldg logged
68.1h/3.1h inst : 330 to/ldg total