First flight of 2008 -- Madison, WI (KMSN)

Jay Honeck wrote in news:d2cf915f-425a-4728-859e-
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Margy and I bailed out of Oshkosh early one year and flew down to
Madison and rented a car there so we could do some touring of the
Frank Lloyd Wright stuff in the area.

Did you get to Racine? Lots of FLW stuff there, thanks to Johnson
Wax.
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Great flying stuf there Jay.


Bertie

Jay Honeck wrote in
:

First flight of 2008.. and the newly minted pilot did not get to fly?
bummer dude.. yah, I know.. it will be a few more hours before he can
qualify for the "ATLAS"

He could have come with us (or gone flying on his own) but chose to
spend his last day of Christmas break with his girfriend -- whose
mother won't let her fly in a light plane!

Joe has not flown solo since giving me a ride, the day after passing
his checkride. The weather here has been absolutely appalling, with
weeks on end of unflyable conditions. I don't know how our FBO gets
through times like this.

My first 9 flights of 2008... towing gliders up to work the ridge
lift with north winds in 1 Jan 2008.

Cool! I'll bet that never gets old, even doing it every day.
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Wheras your non life must be duller'n dishwater.


Bertie

Jay Honeck wrote in news:eacc52d2-5625-4203-bff6-
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I flew yesterday... *it was so clear you could see the curvature of the
earth. *In the center of this photo is downtown Dallas 40 miles off.
(Jay, note the green earth below... *just in case you forgot what it loo
ked
like. :- )

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...NewYearsDay080...

Sweet! My eyes start to crave green right about now.

We've grown lazy and complacent after ten years of mild winters in
Iowa. In the past there have been some New Years Day flights where we
were able to land on grass strips -- but surely not this year. Not
without a ski-plane. It's been brutal.

Amazingly, the weatherman is predicting a major warming trend for the
weekend, with RAIN predicted for next Monday. Liquid water? I'll
believe it when I see it -- the OAT right now is -1 degrees
fahrenheit.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"



More great aviation sutff there, fjukwit


Bertie

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 06:45:17 -0800 (PST), Jay Honeck wrote:

I'll believe it when I see it -- the OAT right now is -1 degrees
fahrenheit.

Ouch... reminds me of a line from a Ron White stand up performance.

He looked at the thermometer and it was reading zero.

His wife asked him what the temperature was and he replied, "There isn't
one..."


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Dallas

Dallas wrote:

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:39:49 -0800 (PST), Jay Honeck wrote:


Today was one of those picture-perfect winter days -- crystal clear,


I flew yesterday... it was so clear you could see the curvature of the
earth. In the center of this photo is downtown Dallas 40 miles off.
(Jay, note the green earth below... just in case you forgot what it looked
like. :- )

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...arsDay0804.jpg



Dallas, where are you based? Check out the identifier below. I completed
my IPC and a couple of days later flew to Fayetteville, AR. Beautiful
days down here in the south. It has been cold the last couple of days.

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Regards, Ross
C-172F 180HP
KSWI

On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:44:23 -0600, Ross wrote:

Dallas, where are you based? Check out the identifier below. I completed
my IPC and a couple of days later flew to Fayetteville, AR. Beautiful
days down here in the south. It has been cold the last couple of days.

KHQZ is my base, I live in the middle of Dallas.

Yeah... these 44° days are killing us. LOL.... :- )


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Dallas

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
...

Other than having to shovel the hangar
out (again), and freezing our dingleberries off whilst pre-flighting..

Umm, Jay, do you know what a "dingleberry" is??

Marco

Marco Leon wrote:
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
...


Other than having to shovel the hangar
out (again), and freezing our dingleberries off whilst pre-flighting..


Umm, Jay, do you know what a "dingleberry" is??

Marco


I was told it is the balled up lead deposits in the spark plugs that
needs to be cleaned out while servicing them. This by a 50+ year A&P.

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Regards, Ross
C-172F 180HP
KSWI

"Ross" wrote in message
...
I was told it is the balled up lead deposits in the spark plugs that needs
to be cleaned out while servicing them. This by a 50+ year A&P.

Perhaps I heard from a more contemporary source.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dingleberry

Marco

Umm, Jay, do you know what a "dingleberry" is??

Yep.

;-)
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"