Fridays Round Robin

It's Friday and another busy day on my project. The climbing temps may save me today and have us finished placing the pervious concrete at a decent time. I would like to get to the airport and fuel the plane then head back to Wilmington to pick up my Bride.

Indeed the temps busted the 90* barrier and I shut down the operation. With the last of the concrete covered for curing I locked up my field office and headed to the airport.

Today went much like Wednesdays flight, second verse, same as the first. It was getting busy at Ocean City but I took on my fuel and completed my pre-flight checks. It was good to get the fan turning and move some air, it was hot and humid. The winds were flipping back and forth between runway two and three-two so I decided on the longest runway, three- two, and taxied out. I advised ocean city traffic I was departing three-two and corrected for the crosswind. I always get a kick out of the weather vane affect once I leave the ground, tracking the runway heading but not pointing to that heading. More of a crab angle to compensate for the wind than actual weathervaning.

The Cape heading north at 5500

It's a straight forward flight, a bit longer than normal, facing this afternoons headwinds. I did check in with Dover and then eventually Wilmington Tower. I was cleared to land straight in runway one and then make a right turn on the crossing runway in order to make an immediate right on to taxiway Bravo. Bravo will allow me to back track to the opposite end of the field and to the entrance for FlyAdvanced.

Somewhere over Dover

Mary was waiting at the FBO having returned the Jeep and now ready to make the hop home. I did take on some fuel, completed my sump and then loaded up for Ocean City. Mary was quiet and seemed tired but she stayed awake for the flight. Those nasty headwinds were now pushing us home at one hundred thirty knots, that was nice. I had climbed to seven thousand five hundred and we enjoyed the almost chilly sixty five degree temps.

Cape Henlopen at 7.5

A smooth landing and roll out has us shutting down at our hangar. Mary gets the SUV started and cranks up the a/c while I clean off the sacrificed bugs along the wings and tail. Another nice flight in the book and 08Romeo is tucked into the hangar.

off the coast

I could not imagine having to make this round trip driving after a day of working in the extreme heat and humidity. I love General Aviation!