Beach Blitz

Mary woke up this morning feeling pretty good so we decided to make a day of it at the beach.  I called for fuel, we locked up the house and headed to the plane.  What a shock, 08Romeo had to be wondering what was up. Two days in a row he is flying.....yeah yeah, I hear ya.

I completed the pre-flight including checking and sumping fuel.  Aeroways has screwed up my last two fuel orders, one was short ten gallons and the other overfilled by at least ten. It really didn't matter but on the real hot days I like to keep the load as light as possible.

Ready to cross the C&D Canal

I filed for OXB just to get some work in the system and picked up the clearance with Wilmington. We soon launched and enjoyed a really smooth ride, hands in my laps once trimmed out. Mary and I were jammin' to the oldies then some country, a fun ride.

Dover downs on race day, The monster mile!!

Ocean City  and the Isle of Wight

Dover handed me off to Washington Center, that was odd and not the normal routine. That didn't last long as Wash handed me off to the typical Patuxent Approach.  I asked for GPS RWY 32 and was cleared after a few vectors. Approach gave me the cancel speech so I was thinking they wanted me to cancel. At that point I was on the downwind, a bit wide, but I was headed out over the water nine more miles for the IAF GOBYO.  I continued on for another mile or so and then once solid feet wet I canceled with approach. I made a left base turn then a turn to final that had me just over three miles out. I announced on CTAF and made a nice landing in gusty winds.

4 mile final rwy 32 KOXB

Our Motor Home

We secured the plane and walked out to our airport car, the Cabrio. The cover had blown off so we needed some clamps to secure it this afternoon.  We tossed in our bags and headed to the motor home. We had some breakfast then changed and headed into Ocean City. Parking wasn't bad now that the holiday crowd was gone so we found a great spot and walked a short distance to the beach. 

I guess we broiled out there for 3 hours or so then called it a day. It's only 4 1/2 miles back to our motor home so it was a quick dash and change for the flight home. I had to self serve fuel today since OXB was having a problem with the 100LL fuel truck.  I finished up and taxied out for the ride home. I headed on my planed course that I had filed; KOXB ATR DQO KILG.  I guess I was 10 south of ATR when I called Dover approach to pick up my clearance for Wilmington. I was cleared direct from my present position and cleared to 5000 feet.

Watching the rain move towards Wilmington

It's here! We covered and secured as this moved in

Dover handed me off to Philly and I was told to expect the visual for runway two seven. Mary and I were watching rain move south and the Nexrad was painting rain mixed with some yellows and red cells. I just wanted to beat the rain to my tie down. I was cleared number two to land behind a Cessna doing touch and goes, I really kept the speed up and the Cessna was asked to cut the base turn a bit earlier to accommodate my arrival. I made a nice landing in very gusty winds planting the right main first and riding it out before the left main and nose followed, it was sweet.