Short Flight

I took a short flight the other morning to get a couple pictures of the land we are planning on putting a house on. I was hoping to get some shots to help us figure out where would be the best building spot. Unfortuanetly the camera died after only a couple shots so that plan went out the window. I still was able to get a couple before I returned back down to earth. It wasn't ideal flying weather either even though on the ground was perfectly still. Once I got up around 600' I started getting bumped around more than I like so I called it a day, and headed back to the field.
We are all still working toward getting our Sport Pilot right now, and I think our next step will be to get signed off to take the written test. I have the study materials now, and just need to take the time to start reading.

New Pilot Picture

Here is a picture of John, who flies around the Bedford area in an Outlaw Powered Parachute. This is the UFPPC that I saw one day flying over Bedford. The other picture is a beautiful shot he got while flying over Smith Mountain Lake. I haven't been able to fly w/ John, but hopefully this summer we will be able to get up in the air together. It is always nice to hear from other pilots and especially when they are in the area. I hope we will start to get more pilots close by and maybe the Sport Pilot coming out will open the doors for some people. John is lucky since he flies a single seat machine so he doesn't have to worry about jumping thru all the hoops to get his machine N-Numbered and inspected. Sometimes I wonder if it would just be simpliar to just buy a single place machine, but for now we are looking into going to TN to get our training done this summer. Thanks for the pictures John, and look forward to meeting up w/ you this summer.

1st meeting on the N-Number transition

We finally got together yesterday to start working on the N-Number process. I believe we got a lot of the paperwork done, but their is still a lot of work to be done. We checked out each others machines and tried to get a head start on what we need to order to get our air worthiness certificates. It seems like a lot of detail work, but after looking at our machines it seems to me that it might not be as bad as first thought. Unfortunately the wind was up yesterday so nobody was able to fly.