Please join me in congratulating the newest U.S. Private Pilot in the world today, Peter K., who sailed to victory in Cessna 17J with DPE Ken Earl.
Nice work, Peter!
Some maintenance updates:
Cessna 630 is running fine. Thanks, 630!
Cessna 68U emerged from her 100hr.
Cessna 20U has had her wing tank completed.
Cessna 04H has completed her 100hr.
Cessna 1ES has had her stall warning horn adjusted
Cessna 17J is working just fine. Thanks, Julie!
Cessna 25R has completed her 100hr. The nose shimmy seems gone.
Piper 85Y was pulled down this evening to investigate a suspicious circuit breaker. We expect her back tomorrow -- and if we don't like what we find, additional downtime on Wednesday.
So our seminar had a great turnout, and I enjoyed the speaker the FAA chose to present. There was grumbling that the presentation was not very KAJO-specific, or for that matter, not very untowered airport specific. There were some interesting nuggets, however, and it was nice to see such a large collection of AJO flyers.
The summary of the presentation seems to be "Follow the AIM. Look outside the cockpit." -- If you weren't already doing that, may I suggest you stop flying until you do. We were all taught that, and we all do that.
A suggestion was made to enter the 45 at 2000 AGL -- which is 150' below the class C ring. Interesting, would work from the south, but absolutely rotten from the north.
All told, there were some nuggets of food for thought, but otherwise, the lesson seems to be "Corona is a safe place to fly, just play by the guidelines we were all taught, and then there will be no surprises." I concur.
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Nice weather lately, if a bit warm. The winds are favoring rwy 7, however, they have been calm and mild -- an interesting change from the usual rwy 7 business. It's a nice way to get comfortable with the rwy 7 sight picture without getting your airplane bounced around by the turbulence!
Have a great weekend -- Blue Skies!
- Mike
