Confession...

Forgive me fellow fliers for I have sinned. It had been over 6 months since
I have flown...

I finally got a chance for a short flight yesterday! My first flight
since last September. That flight was to flight breakfasts in northern Iowa
and southern Minnesota. I kept my Ercoupe hangared in Sleepy Eye, MN (Y58)
about 30 miles north of where I live. I started a new job in Fairmont (FRM)
about 30 miles south. This put a big crimp in my flying during the week as
it would be late by the time I drove from Fairmont to Sleepy Eye to just fly
around the patch for a bit. Winter came on and didn't make it any better and
I was usually busy (or crappy weather) on the weekends. A hangar opened up
here in St James (JYG) back in November. I ended up paying hangar rent for
two places for a few months until I finally got it moved out of Sleepy Eye
yesterday.

Yesterday worked out great. My cousin Verlus in Fairmont has a C-150 and
his son Jason from Spencer has a Tri-Pacer. The 3 of us were at the Fairmont
airport yesterday afternoon and I talked them into taking me up to Sleepy
Eye to get my plane moved. We hopped in the Tri-Pacer and headed to Y58. We
pulled my Ercoupe out of the hangar and I did a thorough pre-flight and I
had plenty of fuel to go the 25 (air) miles to JYG. I pulled on the starter
and the engine started, then stopped. Primed some more and it started fine
but ran a bit rough for the first few seconds then ran good. Surprised me
since the plane had been sitting in a Minnesota hangar all winter. Since I'm
not current to carry passengers, I had Jason (a CFI) fly with me in case I
had forgot how to land in the past 6 months. I took off first and Verlus
followed in the Tri-Pacer. He passed us and was already turning off the
runway at JYG when I called 5 miles out. We put my Ercoupe into its new
hangar and headed back to Fairmont.

Even though it was a short flight, it's still flying! The weather was
decent and my landing was about what I usually do so I didn't do too bad for
not flying for over 6 months. Now that my plane is closer to home, I expect
to get more flying in and try to make up for those 6 months. I need a couple
more landings then I'll be current again. I'm planning on going to a chili
feed fly-in at Fort Dodge (FOD) on April 3rd and a fly-in breakfast at
Webster City (EBS) on April 4th.

--
Greg Burkhart

Forgive me fellow fliers for I have sinned. It had been over 6 months
since
I have flown...

You are forgiven, my son.

For your penance, you must say 3 Hail Marys, 4 Our Fathers, and complete 6
circuits around the pattern without giggling.

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:3NC8c.91301$Cb.1189768@attbi_s51...
Forgive me fellow fliers for I have sinned. It had been over 6 months
since
I have flown...

You are forgiven, my son.

For your penance, you must say 3 Hail Marys, 4 Our Fathers, and complete 6
circuits around the pattern without giggling.

;-)

Now go and sin no more!!

Wow, someone from my home town, Iowa City!

I wonder if Larry Kleinmeyer(my first instructor) is still teaching, and if
Jen is still working there.

I remember my first solo there.... I was on short final, rwy 30, when a
smart-ass King Air decided to sneak-in and take off before me, when I had
already announced a touch-and-go. I made a novice mistake and followed that
king air in to a wicked wake turbulence, flipping over around 90 degrees
left and right within less than a second, probably only about100ft over
Wallmart...

Yessirree... I learned my wake turbulence alright. Since that day, my first
solo, WT was on my mind on every single landings and take-offs ever since.

Greetings from Salt Lake City!

Roger Chung (a proud graduate of West High and U of Iowa)


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:3NC8c.91301$Cb.1189768@attbi_s51...
Forgive me fellow fliers for I have sinned. It had been over 6 months
since
I have flown...

You are forgiven, my son.

For your penance, you must say 3 Hail Marys, 4 Our Fathers, and complete 6
circuits around the pattern without giggling.

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Hi Roger!

And Iowa City Update:

Larry is no longer actively instructing -- although he keeps his CFI ticket
fresh. I'll be going up with him for my biennial, if I can get ahold of
him.

Jen no longer works at the airport, either. She was always a breath of
fresh air, but had a falling out with the current management.

Dumb-ass King Airs are still a problem here once in a while. Having flown
one recently -- and discovered that they cost $15 bucks a MINUTE to
operate -- I now have a new understanding for their incredible impatience
(rudeness?) in the pattern.

Whatcha doing in Utah?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"O-Usagi" wrote in message
k.net...
Wow, someone from my home town, Iowa City!

I wonder if Larry Kleinmeyer(my first instructor) is still teaching, and
if
Jen is still working there.

I remember my first solo there.... I was on short final, rwy 30, when a
smart-ass King Air decided to sneak-in and take off before me, when I had
already announced a touch-and-go. I made a novice mistake and followed
that
king air in to a wicked wake turbulence, flipping over around 90 degrees
left and right within less than a second, probably only about100ft over
Wallmart...

Yessirree... I learned my wake turbulence alright. Since that day, my
first
solo, WT was on my mind on every single landings and take-offs ever since.

Greetings from Salt Lake City!

Roger Chung (a proud graduate of West High and U of Iowa)


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:3NC8c.91301$Cb.1189768@attbi_s51...
Forgive me fellow fliers for I have sinned. It had been over 6 months
since
I have flown...

You are forgiven, my son.

For your penance, you must say 3 Hail Marys, 4 Our Fathers, and complete
6
circuits around the pattern without giggling.

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
...
Forgive me fellow fliers for I have sinned. It had been over 6 months
since
I have flown...

You are forgiven, my son.

For your penance, you must say 3 Hail Marys, 4 Our Fathers, and complete
6
circuits around the pattern without giggling.

;-)

Now go and sin no more!!

I will when the weather gets better! I guess I picked the right day to do
the flight. It has been low vis since... :-(

OT: The cover of April's AOPA magazine shows a 'local' plane. N91RA is now
owned by a guy I've met from East Chain, MN...

Howdy, Jay!

Well, I came here to fly Beech 99 for AmeriFlight, but now I even put that
aside because I need to work and pay the bills.

After Larry got me hooked in flying, I went down to Orlando and attended
ATA(Airline Training Academy), where I got my Multi-Engine Commercial, IFR,
but the school went bankrupt and I lost some money (well actually lots...
but compared to some new students who lost up to $80,000 when they took the
money and closed the door on us, my loss seems nothing compared to theirs).
The only reason I went there in the first place was because they guaranteed
an airline interview. Well, obviously that didn't happen, and I decided to
do some turbine time building at AmeriFlight...... so here I am.

Who is operating King Airs there now? Would they let me fly the right seat
for free? ( yeah, right... but it costs me nothing to ask. I will work for
free as long as I can log in some time ;-) )

Please say hello to Larry for me when you see him next time.

Roger Chung





"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:5TK8c.94534$_w.1265055@attbi_s53...
Hi Roger!

And Iowa City Update:

Larry is no longer actively instructing -- although he keeps his CFI
ticket
fresh. I'll be going up with him for my biennial, if I can get ahold of
him.

Jen no longer works at the airport, either. She was always a breath of
fresh air, but had a falling out with the current management.

Dumb-ass King Airs are still a problem here once in a while. Having flown
one recently -- and discovered that they cost $15 bucks a MINUTE to
operate -- I now have a new understanding for their incredible impatience
(rudeness?) in the pattern.

Whatcha doing in Utah?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Greg Burkhart" wrote in message news:%vu8c.3322$w54.43810@attbi_s01...
Forgive me fellow fliers for I have sinned. It had been over 6 months since
I have flown...

I finally got a chance for a short flight yesterday! My first flight
since last September. That flight was to flight breakfasts in northern Iowa
and southern Minnesota. I kept my Ercoupe hangared in Sleepy Eye, MN (Y58)
about 30 miles north of where I live. I started a new job in Fairmont (FRM)
about 30 miles south. This put a big crimp in my flying during the week as
it would be late by the time I drove from Fairmont to Sleepy Eye to just fly
around the patch for a bit. Winter came on and didn't make it any better and
I was usually busy (or crappy weather) on the weekends. A hangar opened up
here in St James (JYG) back in November. I ended up paying hangar rent for
two places for a few months until I finally got it moved out of Sleepy Eye
yesterday.

Yesterday worked out great. My cousin Verlus in Fairmont has a C-150 and
his son Jason from Spencer has a Tri-Pacer. The 3 of us were at the Fairmont
airport yesterday afternoon and I talked them into taking me up to Sleepy
Eye to get my plane moved. We hopped in the Tri-Pacer and headed to Y58. We
pulled my Ercoupe out of the hangar and I did a thorough pre-flight and I
had plenty of fuel to go the 25 (air) miles to JYG. I pulled on the starter
and the engine started, then stopped. Primed some more and it started fine
but ran a bit rough for the first few seconds then ran good. Surprised me
since the plane had been sitting in a Minnesota hangar all winter. Since I'm
not current to carry passengers, I had Jason (a CFI) fly with me in case I
had forgot how to land in the past 6 months. I took off first and Verlus
followed in the Tri-Pacer. He passed us and was already turning off the
runway at JYG when I called 5 miles out. We put my Ercoupe into its new
hangar and headed back to Fairmont.

Even though it was a short flight, it's still flying! The weather was
decent and my landing was about what I usually do so I didn't do too bad for
not flying for over 6 months. Now that my plane is closer to home, I expect
to get more flying in and try to make up for those 6 months. I need a couple
more landings then I'll be current again. I'm planning on going to a chili
feed fly-in at Fort Dodge (FOD) on April 3rd and a fly-in breakfast at
Webster City (EBS) on April 4th.

Hi Greg,

I know the feeling, didn't fly for two months. It really itches.
Next monday or tuesday I'm going to get my plane back.


Happy flying,
Kees.

Ouch. That ATA story is really a drag. How many people did they fleece
when they went belly up?

Who is operating King Airs there now? Would they let me fly the right seat
for free? ( yeah, right... but it costs me nothing to ask. I will work for
free as long as I can log in some time ;-) )

Jet Air (their home office is in Galesburg, IL), is the primary charter now,
since they run the FBO.

I only got to fly right seat because I'm friends with the head cheese. (It
didn't hurt that I promised to buy him a good steak dinner in Omaha,
either.)

;-)

I'll say "hi" to Larry for ya!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"O-Usagi" wrote in message
nk.net...
Howdy, Jay!

Well, I came here to fly Beech 99 for AmeriFlight, but now I even put that
aside because I need to work and pay the bills.

After Larry got me hooked in flying, I went down to Orlando and attended
ATA(Airline Training Academy), where I got my Multi-Engine Commercial,
IFR,
but the school went bankrupt and I lost some money (well actually lots...
but compared to some new students who lost up to $80,000 when they took
the
money and closed the door on us, my loss seems nothing compared to
theirs).
The only reason I went there in the first place was because they
guaranteed
an airline interview. Well, obviously that didn't happen, and I decided to
do some turbine time building at AmeriFlight...... so here I am.


Please say hello to Larry for me when you see him next time.

Roger Chung





"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:5TK8c.94534$_w.1265055@attbi_s53...
Hi Roger!

And Iowa City Update:

Larry is no longer actively instructing -- although he keeps his CFI
ticket
fresh. I'll be going up with him for my biennial, if I can get ahold of
him.

Jen no longer works at the airport, either. She was always a breath of
fresh air, but had a falling out with the current management.

Dumb-ass King Airs are still a problem here once in a while. Having
flown
one recently -- and discovered that they cost $15 bucks a MINUTE to
operate -- I now have a new understanding for their incredible
impatience
(rudeness?) in the pattern.

Whatcha doing in Utah?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Ouch. That ATA story is really a drag. How many people did they fleece
when they went belly up?

Over 15 million dollars of about 200 or so student pilots were robbed. In
extreme cases, a new group of students arrived in Orlando after pre-paying
up to $80,000 each, which includes for all the training from the beginning
to commercial and beyond to multi time-building and professional training
and airline interview, plus apartment room for however many months, which
not a cent of that was relayed to the apartment where they were supposed to
stay.

http://www.redtrainer.org

I was almost done actually,... I just didn't get CL65 sim training plus an
interview with an airline.


I only got to fly right seat because I'm friends with the head cheese. (It
didn't hurt that I promised to buy him a good steak dinner in Omaha,
either.)

Hmm... I was in Iowa City just last week, visiting my parents. I should have
stopped by at the airport and drop off my resume.

Would love to check out your N56993 too. ... I might have seen it there
before. I belive my old trainer N1564X is gone to Cedar Rapids.