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Monday, November 08, 2004
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Today was soo exciting. I got to fly my first airplane today! Everything at church was pretty good, but I won't have time to really say much about that. I just want to tell you all about the flight though. I'll just start from the begining. I was supposed to go and pick up Allie today from Danville (driving). But Steve and I colaborated last night and decided it would just be so much better if we just flew down to pick her up. (Steve has his private pilots licence). So we got everything all organized as much as we could last night and were ready for the flight today. Steve had to leave chuch a little early to prep everything at the airport and get things checked out. Brittany was going to come along for the drive this afternoon.. but during all of this we managed to keep this whole plan a secret to her. So while steve was out doing his thing after church I just went and hung out with Britt for awhile at her house. Later steve finished all he needed to at the airport and he came by her house to just hang out until we had to leave. We still had to finalize our flight plan and get current wind speeds and direction and adjust accordingly so we just claimed that we had some quick homework we needed to do and we put that together at over at thier house. Once we got everything set we waited around and just watched some X-men 2 until 3:30. Then we hopped in the car and "headed to Danville" I was going a different direction then normal so Britt was kinda wondering what was going on. But we then arrived at the airport and then informed her of the details. It was pretty funny. During the whole time Steve and I had this inside joke we kept talking about. We kept saying things like "oh we'll just wing it" and "we'll just fly by the seat of our pants" then on the drive to the airport a song came on and part of they lyrics were "we'll crash and burn" Steve and I started laughing and Britt had no clue. It was awsome. So anyway we did the pre-flight checks and loaded up and headed out. The take off was smooth and we climbed to 4500ft. After we got to cruising altitude Steve let me take over and fly for awhile. It was a lot of fun. Those controls are pretty sensitive though. The plane we took this time (A warrior) didn't have very good insulation and the sound of the plane was pretty loud. It made it very difficult to talk to each other during the flight. That is one reason I'm glad the flight time was only about 30-40minutes. But still it was sure a lot of fun. We pulled some Negative G's while we were up there too just having some fun making things in the cockpit float. As we approached Danville, Steve took over the controls and made the approach. The landing was a bit rough, but I thought it was pretty well done. We ended up getting there about 20 minutes before 5:00 so we had some time to kill before Allie and her dad arrived. Once they got there her brother was really excited to be at the airport (He is 7) We let him see the plane and crawl inside to look around he had the biggest smile. It was soo cute. They ended up standing back and waiting for us to take off and watching us go... This time after taking off when we were only at around 3000ft Steve let me take control. I was able to finish the climb and then level us off at cruising altitude. By this time it was getting to be sundown though so steve just flew the rest of the way back mostly. I just took some pictures and the rest of us watched the sun set to the left side of us. It was pretty dark by the time we got back at 6:00 though (stupid Daylight savings). But I was able to see how to remotely turn on the runway lights on the approach and land on the runway amongst all the rest of the city lights. That was pretty cool. This time Steve did a really really good landing. We could have had a full cup of coffee on our laps and not spilled a single drop. I gotta give him props for that one. We landed on the Falwell airport and that airport has a pretty steep incline I would have thought that would have been more difficult.. but apparently not. So anyway that was pretty much what happend on my first flying. I sure had a great time and I learned quite a bit. After closing up at the airport we all piled back in my van and headed back to the house. Driving a car again was kind of weird after flying for a little over an hour. After getting to the house Steve had to rush over to the church to run part of the Youth Ministry there tonight. While he was doign that Britt, Allie, and I swung by Libety to pick up charlie and the four of us went out to get some icecream. But after that was got bored and decided to just sit in the parking lot at church and wait for steve to finish with the kids. After he emerged from the building we kidnapped him and went to rent a movie (A Knights Tale). Then we went back to the house and just chilled and watched that the rest of the evening. It was a good time to relax after a long day today of rushing (and flying) around all over the place. But after it was over we did kind of have to leave in a hurry so I could get back and do some last minute studying and make sure I had time to blog before I forgot details. So I hope I didn't leave anything out. I do have a few pictures that I took from the day that I will be publishing on my photos section soon but I won't get around to it for a few days probably... I want to get the pics Allie and Britt took too and get them all togetehr. So I'll just wait till then. But for now, I need to head to bed now. I have a test in Philosphy tomorrow. Pray for me if you think about it @ 11:20 Thanks! Have a great night just like I had a great and exciting day!
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posted by Jeremy Dillinger @ 1:09 AM
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