Flight Time

I got to do a lot of flying this past weekend. I flew Ben's 1964 Cessna 172c for 6.2 hours. This included a flight to Hawthorne Airport to pick up Rex, Flying the Gillespie Field Eagles Mechanic Walt around the East County of San Diego, then flying Cullen and his girlfriend Sheryl over La Jolla, and then I spent an hour teaching Will Rash how to land.

The real icing on the cake was flying with Andy Hendrickson in actual IFR at night in his Cessna 206. We shot three IFR approaches, a VOR-DME into Ramona, the ILS into Carlsbad, and the GPS back into Gillespie. Andy is an Excellent IFR pilot, and I really enjoy flying with him, he got his IFR rating back in 1989 and has all ratings up to Multi-Commercial. We flew for 1.6 hours at night including 1 hour of time in the clouds.

This was my first flight of the year, I've really gone too long without flying. It was really a lot of fun to get back into the air.