Hello Gang!

Hi guys and gals,
It's been a pretty rough row to hoe since before Thanksgiving. I
have moved from my beloved mountains of northeastern TN. , back to my
homeland of Georgia. Waynesboro, GA to be exact! I rented a place right
behind the Burke County airport. Not alot going on at the airport
here..but I sure hope to change that eventually.
Things have been "not so good" in the sport pilot training as money
has been very very short. But I have found a fellow over in Macon, GA
that is training in a Piper Cub. So at least I won't have as much of a
drive as I did going from TN to OH. ! Hope to finish up when I get my
income tax (my half of the return) and move on from there.
But on to a more cheery subject! My daughter from previous marriage
has stayed with me a few weekends and has spent all this week with me
for her spring break. I changed the seat tracks in a Cessna 170 for a
fellow out at the airport and we took her on her first airplane ride! I
got a great picture of that look of fear on her face when the airplane
started moving and within 5 minutes that look on her face was pure joy.
Just took her on a scenic ride down to jenkins County airport and then
over to a private grass strip that a friend of the airplanes owner
knows. She says her favorite part is coming into the final turn and
landing. She was all smiles!!! Sure made this old man forget all the
woes and heartache he has gone through lately.
Now when I am looking at airplanes on the internet or going over
plans and blueprints I already have, she looks too! I think I have made
a 9 year old girl an airplane fan! At least now she understands her
Dad's love of aviation and who knows ..maybe with just alittle luck she
will be on her way to loving it as well.

WP Dixon
student SP
aircraft structural mech