lilrkt
New Member
Well I participated in Operation Good Cheer here today. All the planes from my flight school went down to KPTK and met up with over 50 other planes. They packed every plane full of presents, and groups of planes went to about 15 locations around Michigan and dropped off the presents to a waiting army of volunteers unloading planes. This is all put on by Child and Family Services of Michigan. They do it every year and I think it's a great thing. Planes ranged from a Musketeer, to a Cutlass that I was flying, to a few Citations. All were filled to the gills.
The part that was the most fun for me was the weather here today. We were full IFR with moderate icing going from Flint to Pontiac. Landing there I was sporting about a quarter inch of ice that I chunked off. Our destination turned out to be KHYX in Saginaw. When landing there I chunked off about 1/2 to 3/4 inch of ice. All this for my first time really out on my own in actual IMC. Not a bad experience. After unloading in Saginaw, the weather had broken up and it was a nice short VFR flight back to Flint to put the plane to bed. All the planes that we flew had wo people, but unfortunately the guy flying with me was only a student pilot, not rated in the RG so I had lots of fun on my own with no GPS and a DME that was not working. Had lots of fun though!
The part that was the most fun for me was the weather here today. We were full IFR with moderate icing going from Flint to Pontiac. Landing there I was sporting about a quarter inch of ice that I chunked off. Our destination turned out to be KHYX in Saginaw. When landing there I chunked off about 1/2 to 3/4 inch of ice. All this for my first time really out on my own in actual IMC. Not a bad experience. After unloading in Saginaw, the weather had broken up and it was a nice short VFR flight back to Flint to put the plane to bed. All the planes that we flew had wo people, but unfortunately the guy flying with me was only a student pilot, not rated in the RG so I had lots of fun on my own with no GPS and a DME that was not working. Had lots of fun though!