Days as a hanger rat

Viperdoc wrote:
You can tell you're a hangar rat when you spend more time futzing around in
the hangar than you actually do flying.

Example: flew 1.1 hours today- spent four hours washing/waxing the plane
(still not done), emptying garbage cans, adjusted the gas powered tug,
played with the dog, tried to fly my son's RC plane on the ramp (not a great
idea when it nearly hit my plane), took a nap on a patio chair, got the wife
to help wax the plane (even on mother's day), and then came home.

It's kind of our summer home at the airport- wait until we start the Weber
up again, then it'll be even longer hours!


Sounds like you covered some of the more important bases:
1) Commit aviation
2) Playing with the dog (especially if it's the airport dog)
3) Taking that all important nap in the patio chair
4) Futz around in hanger/on the plane

Not a bad day's work at the hanger if you ask me.

Yikes, watch out for RC airplanes on the ramp, eh? :-)


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-IA Student
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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