After the return trip from Palm Springs, I realized I had reached home “just in time” for some critical maintenance.
Cheers,
== T.J.==
After the return trip from Palm Springs, I realized I had reached home “just in time” for some critical maintenance.
Cheers,
== T.J.==
After an overnight in El Paso and a full regular day of work, it was time for the final leg of the journey. El Paso turned out out to be a great place for an overnight stop. Thanks to both NASA and the military there was no shortage of noteworthy aircraft on the ramp. The coolest plane on the ramp had to be the NASA plane that the FBO staff refers to as ” Shamu”. You can see why in the pic below:
He was very friendly and helpful. However about 20 feet behind Juan Manuel, were 2 very serious Mexican military officers, who seemed to take pride on how thoroughly they searched my plane 😉 Here is one of them scrutinizing my passport with the Phenom in the background:
Now I was getting excited… Almost done… Or so I thought…
Apparently, I had to meet the commandante, who is sort of the head honcho in charge. He had to sign off on all the inspections done so far and “recheck” my airplane paperwork. I waited for ~ 15 mins in total comfort in the FBO lobby, which was quite comparable to the US FBO lounges that Banyan/Signature/ or TAC Air would have.
Eventually, the commandante arrived and informed me that my paperwork “appears to be in order” and told me to sign the 4 copies of my Mexican entry permit.
Overall, it was rather quick and painless and now this makes country #6 that I have personally landed in!
Stay tuned for the next leg of the journey.
Cheers,
== T.J.==
At this point, Trip decided to throw one last surprise at me. He pulled the power to idle and announced “I think we have an engine failure.” So I had to do a power off 180 to a full stop landing!
Cheers,
== T.J.==
Sometimes things just have a way of falling into place…
Obviously, I will be flying the little plane in the foreground !
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Cheers,
Until today, all of my passengers were people. But today was a long overdue flight… I loaded up my first four legged passenger (Tristan) in preparation for takeoff.
Heart shaped cloud formation |
Tropical Storm Debby finally passed most of the state of Florida yesterday!
Cheers,
== T.J.==
After almost a month in Colombia for work, I was back in the country and eager to get back in the air!
But I needed to get over it quickly because this weekend I had some serious new training planned. For the longest time, I was curious about flying a seaplane and more importantly about landing on water. I looked into it last year, but didn’t get around to it till now. Life is short… and I am trying to “get around to everything”!
When I arrived, I saw my aircraft for the weekend, which was a Maule M-7-235: