Giving the first RV ride....

Way back in August, I recieved an email from Don who was getting geared up to build an RV-9. He and his wife live down in Florida and were going to be in the area and wanted to see our RV. Don is a crewchief for an SCCA road race team and was in Topeka, KS for the National Championship Runoffs at Heartland Park. Topeka is just a short 15min flight from my home base, so we hooked up Thursday after work and went for a flight. As most people, Don was very impressed with the handling qualities of the RV. We got in about .4hrs of flying time and flew right over the race track on our right base to runway 03 at KFOE. I do believe the hook is full set now... no turning back. :-)

Thanks Don!

Dinner flight

I'd like to say I've been negligent in updating the website but the sad truth is we haven't been flying much at all. The weather hasn't been very cooperative and work has interfered on the weekends that were nice. We managed to get a nice dinner flight up to Topeka, KS Monday night however. Ray (RV-10) took one of our work vendors with him and Sandi and I met them up there. Restaurant was closed, so we had to take the courtesy car into town to eat. Beautiful flight home just after the sun set and finished with a beautiful night landing. I can tell you that I am very rusty having not flown in a month. My radio communications were bad and my first landing at Topeka was ugly. I landed smoothly enough but flared way to high.