My friend Bob, the guy who helps out with the aviation club, invited me to eat breakfast with him at Rio Concho this morning. Rio Concho is a little restaurant on the Hicks Field Airport that features a crabby short order cook and an average-at-best breakfast plate. So I'm sitting at the lunch counter (I guess it would be a breakfast counter at this time) and Bob walks in and says, "You wanna go someplace else for breakfast?" I jumped at the chance. I was thinking the Hometown Cafe down the street, but Bob had another place in mind. There is a restaurant down at the Lancaster Airport so we decided to hop in his plane and fly down there. The consummate teacher, Bob showed me all the prep work involved in making the flight such as weather planning, radio frequencies, and the like. Then we hopped into the plane and took to the air.
It was HOT today and we never flew above 3500 ft so it stayed pretty warm in the plane. It was also super bumpy up there. I felt pretty airsick a few times but never lost my lunch--THANK GOD. I felt really green when we made a tight turn on the way down into the Lancaster Airport. The whole way there, Bob was filling my head with all kinds of aviation information. I was in charge of the radios and to tell the truth, I felt more like a hindrance than a help. All in all, though, it was a complete blast! We're going to take it up again next weekend when we fly down to Meacham Field for the airshow. Bob is going to give kids free airplane rides as part of the Experimental Aircraft Association's Young Eagles program. By the way, I'm the newest member of the EAA, and I plan on taking my big camera to the show to shoot some footage that I hope to turn into a Young Eagles information video to show at school. Here's a few pics I took:
Downtown Dallas. It was sooo hazy today!
On the way back we flew right over DFW Airport!
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