Spontaneity

The great thing about having your licence is the ability to just go and fly...

I headed out to the club today, not really intending on flying as the weather looked atrocious. Lots of showers, gray/black clouds floating around everywhere and it was blowing fairly strong, gusting 22 knots. But Auckland being Auckland... well as they say, if you don't like the weather, just wait 10 minutes :)

Around 4:30pm, the sun had come out, the wind had dropped down to around 10knots and I decided it was time to take DXP for a run before the owner takes her offline later this week.

I managed to find some company in the form of another club member who was keen to come along for the ride, and after a quick pre-flight we taxied out to do our run-ups. For an aircraft that had not moved in around 3 weeks, DXP was an absolute dream. Started without any fuss, no hiccups during run-ups and she flew as straight as an arrow.

So we decided to go for a quick city scenic and headed over the city, enjoying the view around the port, Harbour Bridge, Sky Tower, One Tree Hill, Rangitoto etc. before heading back. A most enjoyable flight, and Tony even bought me a beer afterwards!

The only issue I had was that it was really heavy on the elevator... requiring a lot of force to get the nose up on the take-off roll, and a lot to prevent the nose wheel 'shimmy' on landing... other than that, an absolute dream to fly.


This flight: 1.0 PinC
Total Hours: 121.0 (78.1/34.8 Day, 3.9/4.2 Night, 5.1 IFR)