I’m decompressing from a long day of work and flight school. I get home late (after 11 o’clock), and then I want to do as little as possible.
I see this barn every time I drive to flight school. There was a lot of traffic today and I was already late, so I stopped to take a photo with David’s Panasonic. I’ll get better shots during the day when the light hits the east side of the barn, so I’ll save that for when I do weekend flights.
Ordinarily I wouldn’t be at flight school on a Tuesday, but I needed to make up this class on flight instruments which I’ve missed TWICE due to bad weather, then scheduling. The other reason is to talk to the instructor, who I met back in January when I first visited Brampton Flight Centre. This is the only private pilot license class he teaches, and another student mentioned to me that his friend recommended this instructor. The other reason why I wanted to talk to him was to see if I could book him to take me up for a hybrid instruction intro flight (it’s about half the price of a regular flight) on May 30 and extend it to make it into a memorial flight for David’s birthday. David would’ve turned 40 years old on May 30, and if it was over the weekend instead of a Wednesday I would drive to Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome. As such, I think a memorial flight is the next best thing.
Of course, this is all weather dependent, and that’s the dilemma I faced last year when I scattered David’s ashes. But all’s well that ends well, so this year if it rains I would just go up another day.
As it turns out, the instructor said I can’t extend the intro flight, so I made a regular booking for the 30th. If I get a brilliant sunset, that would be gravy. But mostly, I just need to get up in the sky.
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