Many thanks to those who joined us for the SoCal TRACON tour on Monday! The comment was that this was the largest turnout EVER from the Empire Sector in the history of the tracon facility -- that's since 1994! Fly Corona pilots rock!
It was great to see that prior accounts of controllers being green scaly beasts of headset-crushing tongue-lashing grumpitude were only half right! It turns out -- it's only when we make them that way!
In seriousness -- it was a great experience, and as suspected, ATC Controllers are not only human, they're just as interested as we are in our flights being successful, and want to help and coach us through their airspace successfully. Playing ATC controller in the 16-scope Training Lab was just icing on the cake, and Bob M and his co-hosts could not have rolled out a better welcome for us.
Thanks SoCal!
We have offered to reciprocate and bring controllers up flying so they can understand "our story", and learn about the G1000 and other doodads we use in addition to SoCal's services.
We will try to get another meet going very soon! This time with advance warning for those with funny-colored passports :)
Also, as suspected, "Pushing Tin" is confirmed to be the worst aviation movie ever made.
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In other news...
Cessna 630 has a new tire. Ahem.
Cessna 68U has had a radio repair done. She goes in for Annual next week.
Cessna 739 has a new landing light.
Cessna 17J loves her new magnetos.
Skylane 073 has been working for her money lately.
Bonanza 11N continues to rule the sky.
We have made an offer on a 172N similar to 739. We lost the 172R deal, but are still actively searching (sigh)
Folks savvy to the workings of the inter-tubes may have noticed our deal on GroupOn today.
Spring has sprung! With the exception of a few fluffy clouds around, the weather has been crystal clear and simply glorious for us aviators.
Grab some sky!
Cheers,
- Mike
