Tonight I flew my girlfriend to Albany and ate dinner at Lum Yuen, the Chinese Restaurant right off the airport. It’s actually a very convenient fly-in restaurant. After landing, you follow the taxiway past the south end of the runway, continue over a little bridge, and park the airplane about 200 feet from the restaurant. The food was pretty good–we over-ordered and ended up flying back with three giant to-go boxes. The flight itself was nice, and although there wasn’t much of a sunset due to the cloud cover, we were able to experience the beauty of night flying on the return to Hillsboro. Upon arriving at our home airport the pattern was empty, and we weren’t in a hurry to get back on the ground, so we overflew the field and entered a 45 for a right downwind on runway 30, even though we were approaching from the south and a left base entry would have been far more efficient. Sometimes, though, efficiency isn’t the objective!
(More pictures here)
July 20th, 2007 - 9:28 am
That was a fun date. We should do that flight again.
July 22nd, 2007 - 2:51 pm
You guys fly so much, you should start getting paid to do so… get hooked up with Google, Microsoft or Yahoo, making their zoom-up-on-sweat-gland maps. It’s always cool to see your pictures, taken from such a different angle than what ordinary humans get the opportunity to see. It must be a thrill. I don’t blame Tammy for taking 800+ pictures each time. I think I’d be tempted to do the same… especially if I ever get a decent SLR camera. I take enough as it is with my old, cheapy Gorbachev.
August 1st, 2007 - 11:07 pm
I think eventually it would be nice to get paid for flying in some fashion, but that will require a commercial license in order to be legal in the eyes of the FAA. I’ll earn that eventually, probably after I get an instrument rating. I’m taking it nice and slow right now, just enjoying flying under visual flight rules without the burden of flying for financial gain. But I can see myself getting into charter flying or professional aerial photography a few years down the road in order to reduce the cost.