Sunday, January 30, 2011

Spirit of St. Louis

Well it has been way to long since I have sat down to add to this blog. I am thinking that I will start again today and try to go back over the next week or so and fill in some of my adventures since August; there have been a lot!

Right now it is early morning and I am sitting in St. Louis about to fly a friend's plane back to NJ for him. It is a great Piper Cherokee 180 that he bought last week down in Houston. We flew it up from Houston to here in St. Louis as we made our way along the western boundary of a large storm system that was moving up the east coast. Now a few days later I am here in St. Louis again at the Spirit of St. Louis airport on the SW edge of the city.

I am hoping to make it back to Lawrenceville this afternoon but hazy conditions persist over the whole region and as a VFR pilot I need to have good visibility for a safe flight. I will be taking it easy and will try to follow the good weather as I head east bound. It looks like I will try to head towards Lexington, KY and then over to West Virginia and north up the west side of the Appalachians to Pennsylvania and then turn east for home. The cloud base will keep me low it looks like (3000' and below) so I will need to be aware of towers and mountains along my route of flight. Neither one of those interact very favorably with an airplane. :)

Alright, I am going to walk over to the airport and get this show on the road, er... I mean in the air!