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Planes I've Flown
Written by Ron
Vancouver, British Columbia to Thomas, Oklahoma (8-26-2009) Picked up a Pitts S2B in Vancouver BC and flew it to Thomas Oklahoma. The trip was great other than trying to get the IGNORANT EAPIS to work. EAPIS is that new government sytem that you have to have to travel out of the country now. It still does not work like it was supposed to and if I could not have gotten a guy on the phone to take my info, I would still be in Canada. Even then it took three hours of trying. Once I got back into the USA, the trip was beautiful. It was really nice to get behind the take off power of the Pitts again and to fly over all the beautiful mountains this time of the year.
Sky Acres, New York Flying the Velocity Jet with a General Electric T58 engine was really fun and exciting! I flew it about 45 minutes and had to come back for some adjustments, but the flight went very well. If this aircraft didn't burn so much fuel, I'd haveone myself. Very nice job done building this plane.
Kansas City, Missouri I traveled to Kansas City and taught a great young pilot to fly his new Lancair XP400. The plane performed well and Tom did a great job learning to fly it. He had previously flown a Cessna 150, but the transition did not take him long at all.
Williamson/Sodus, New York Recently I went to New York state and did the first flight and test hours on a Glasair II fixed gear, built by Lory Ghertner. It was a great plane! He did a fabulous job of building it and was a fast learner when it came to flying it. The country was beautiful there between Sarcus and Rochester.
Burbank, California After the New York trip, I flew a Kit Fox to the Burbank, California area. On the way, I got a job testing a new Glasair II retract built by Greg Fisher. Another very nice plane. It was kept in a nice place called Chino, California. Wow! Talk about a place with some cool planes. I saw at least three different L39s, a Mustang, T28 and a Viper which is almost done, not to count all the very nice certfied jets. The plane flew great with no problems at all.
Phoenix, Arizona I went from Chino, California to Phoenix and picked up the prettiest Christen Eagle I have ever laid eyes on and flew it to Oklahoma. It was a little windy but the plane did not mind.
Merritt Island, Florida Over at Merritt Island, I trained a new pilot to fly the Compair 8 on floats. It was great! The wind was 15-20 MPH all day, and the waves were 2 - 2.5 feet high, but the Compair took it well.
Louisville, Kentucky to Vermont Completed a flight of a Lake Amphibian from Louisville to Vermont. I had alot of hoops to go through, since it was from Canada. It had not been flown in eight years, but Robert, the new owner, had all his ducks in a row and we were off. This trip was kinda special since he told me that we had to go to a DAR in Williamson/Sodus New York. That is where I did test flights.
Arriving in Vermont, we landed on the lake and started Robert's water practice. In no time he had it down and went off solo. Later we had some fun trying to get the plane up into his yard, but Robert was determined to have it all worked out in a hurry with a lake amphibib in his own backyard.
Williamson/Sodus, New York (update) We got to take a picture of Lory's plane now that is is painted. WOW, was it a great paint job! In one of my recent jobs you will see it in primer (3rd photo from the top of this page) and now here it is painted. Lory could not meet me that day, but said if I had pulled it out in the sun, it would have looked even better. It's hard to imagine it looking any better.
Nashville, Tennessee I Did a flight review and recurancy taining in a Lancair4P, then delived it to Nashville, TN. Wow. Nice plane!
Wharton Texas to Miami Oklahoma I delivered a Thrush turbine from Farm and Ranch Aerial Services in Wharton TX to Miami Oklahoma, picked up another thrush and took it back to Wharton. All went well and the best part of the job was I met Eugene Shanks, who rebuilds crop duster, sells, them and sprays with them. It is nice to meet someone with such great knowledge.
