Do you still fly GA?
My sister gave me a bunch of Plane & Pilot magazines the other day and as I read the March 2009 issue "Learn to Fly", I wondered how many of you still fly general aviation aircraft. I happen to own my own aircraft, so I get to do quite a bit of GA flying. But, how many of you still love to fly? Or has it become just a job? I loved flying the CRJ (before I was furloughed), but to climb into a single engine plane, on a crisp spring morning, and just fly is the greatest feeling. It brings back all those memories of $100 hamburgers or grabbing some friends and taking off for someplace that was too far to drive just for one day.
On a recent morning:
Me - "*** tower, Cessna N1234 inbound with Whiskey"
Tower - "Cessna1234, wind 330 at 14, gust 20, runway your choice"
Me - "Cessna1234 will take rwy 24"
Avgas - $5.15 per gallon
Oil - $4.60 per qt
A 14 knot gusting 20 crosswind in a Cessna.....priceless