Got up this morning and headed out to the airport.
First of the month, so as the Flying Club Secretary, I did the first of the month tasks at the hangars such as retrieving all the fuel receipts, getting the log pages from August form each aircraft and transferring the Hobbs time, Tach time, and the Time before Next Oil Change to the September pages so all was in order for the month.
The I had to wait for fuel as one of our more special members hadn't refueled the plane last night after flying it and had been late this morning to call for fuel.
Then I had to reprogram the radios as the same special member had decided to use COM 2 instead of COM 1 and of course flip flopped all the frequencies.
Then with the preflight complete, I got my taxi clearance, did the run up, and was on my way to the southwest.
Beautiful day to fly.
Not a cloud in the sky and the tiniest of crosswinds.
Keeping the power in I was soon cruise climbing at 114 knots and 121 knots ground speed.
Leveled off at 6,500 feet, and was heading to Jackson at 130 knots ground speed which isn't bad for an Archer at all.
Arrived at Jackson rather quickly, and entered the downwind for Runway 7.
I had a nice pattern going and then the tower wanted me to make a tighter base turn for traffic and keep it going into a final, which I did. But this meant I was a tad high on final and had a lot of speed to burn up as a result. A very nice if both a high descent angle and high speed long landing.
There in .7 from engine start at Pontiac to shut down on the ramp by the restaurant in Jackson. Not too shabby.
I then met Mr. B., who had arrived before me and saw my high angle of approach and my long landing. There's always an audience when it is less than perfect.
We had a good breakfast and even better conversation.
The restaurant at Jackson is under new ownership and instead of The Apron is now known at Taildraggers - but the same favorites such as the Pilot's Omelette are still on the menu, the staff is much the same and it is still a great place to go.
After breakfast, we walked around a bit and then headed back to our respective aircraft to get them ready to depart.
We started up and headed out at the same time and I followed Mr. B. on the taxi to the runway and we both did our run-ups and took off in sequence. He departed to the West, and I flew to the East.
Again I made good time back to Pontiac. A few clouds and some minor bumps but nothing serious and just another lovely flying day.
The GM Proving Ground in Milford makes for both a great landmark and a great potential emergency landing location.
I soon had Pontiac Airport in sight and they had me cross over the departure end to the north and then enter the downwind for Runway 27R.
I then entered the right downwind and got landing clearance and did a good landing with 0.8 from startup at Jackson to shutdown at the hangar.
It was a great time to get out and meet up with Mr. B.
That's 1.5 and 2 very nice landings.
