Whee!

[cjsmith]

Seven times around the pattern. Yet again, I warmed up during the flight; my later landings were better than my earlier ones.

My coworker was hanging around hoping to solo, but the reported wind was just over his minimum. So I invited him to ride along with me. As there wasn't an instructor on board, he sat right seat, and he said it was very odd to sit in a cockpit and have nothing to do. :-)

Maybe next I'll go get a "$100 hamburger" somewhere.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

At these fuel prices, are burgers still so cheap? :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Eh, well, actually, no. :-) With fuel a Piper Warrior from West Valley Flying Club costs about $100/hour. If there were an airport restaurant within a half hour's flying time (or slightly less, for runup and taxiing and the cost of the actual burger) it'd just scrape by.

A burger at the Two Niner Diner in Petaluma is probably a $200 burger. But you get to go right over SFO, which is cool. :-)

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Does that only include flying time, or eating time, too?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Just the time the engine is running, thank goodness! :)

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Good thing!

[l-stboy.livejournal.com]

Just passing through, thought you might entertain a question since it looks like you fly/flew acrobatics- before I moved to Sunnyvale from Boston I read about a school somewhere nearby that had only taildraggers. I haven't been able to find anything on it since. Maybe I made it up... does the description ring a bell?

I left off lessons at Hanscom at my last 2 cross-country solos; and since I'm looking at a bit more instruction anyway, I thought I'd switch types to finish up.

(philomath at gmail if you'd rather respond by e-mail)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hi! I don't know of one around here that has ONLY taildraggers. Several nearby flying clubs have a nice assortment of both and will do primary instruction in taildraggers:

-Amelia Reid Aviation, Reid-Hillview airport
-West Valley Flying Club, with outposts at Palo Alto, San Carlos, Hayward, and South County
-Attitude Aviation, at Livermore

Both Amelia Reid and Attitude list taildraggers as a strength in which they specialize. Perhaps one or the other of those is what you heard of -- not sure.

I just finished my BFR (in the Warrior) at West Valley, and my previous BFR at West Valley was in the Citabria. All my acro training was at Attitude. Attitude specializes in acro and has multiple Pitts S-2Bs and an Extra 200 for the serious aerobatics student. I have an unseemly adoration for the S-2B. :-)

Good luck with the continued training! I hope to see you at one of the local airports!

Ah, that's it

[l-stboy.livejournal.com]

Amelia Reid- that's the one, thank you! I've got to take my training folder over to someone soon and find out how much remedial flying I'm in for before I get back to solo.

I'm back in Sunnyvale now (from a long, long road trip), so hopefully I'll see you around!

Re: Ah, that's it

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Great - glad you found what you were looking for! See you around! :)