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4 June 2006

Thank you to everybody for making our last meeting one of the best that we have had!! It is great to see guests sit with us for a meal, and this Club is exceptional at rolling out the welcome wagon for new folks. Again, a pot luck at Forest and Jean's house is always great and the barbecue/eating area is very nice place to eat and converse. Thank you to all of the wives that come and support us.

Monday Jerry, Bruce, Gilbert, John K., Jim, John G. and I played hookie from work to fly. Unfortunately, John Krupa had foul weather at King City, and was unable to get his plane back to Paso to fly with the rest of us. New Member, John Gill showed up bright and early, so I worked in an introductory flight lesson to Forest's house before our group flight. Jim flew out with us and we both did a low level pass up Forest's runway as he waved us on. (Damn those rotor blades look nasty up close when he passes us!!)

Gilbert flew with me, and the group proceeded to Shandon and then on to Chalome, where Jim had to turn his gas guzzler around and head for home while the rest of us dinked around the area. We need to get Jim's two place into the air ASAP so he has more range. Gilbert and I were the slow ones of the group, but we flew high and watched the show the other guys put on. Bruces radio was crystal clear and Jerry's was audible. Sometime I could understand Jim and sometime not. My push to talk button went south, so we could listen, but not talk, so Jerry and Bruce covered our take off and landing approaches for us.

I ordered the same antenna setup today that Bruce has. As we both have the same radio so I hope to be able to communicate as well as he does. I am putting a better push to talk switch in the stick, so that problem should be resolved-the original push to talk button never worked well. I will see how the antenna works before I go after noise suppression on the motor and wiring.

Good thing we played hookie on Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and today we were all socked in with fog during the morning hours and terrible winds in the afternoons. When all of you put your planes in the hanger Monday, I had to fly back to Lockwood in that wind. Very interesting-had to climb to 4,500' to get out of it. I probably looked like a drunk coming in-all over the map!! REAL glad to get onto the ground-made me sick to my stomach.

Been a lot of years getting this Club this far. Thanks to Jerry and Bruce for leaning on the rest of us to join them in a flight. I have flown alone since 1993, and having company is a lot of fun. Maybe we can do this again in a few weeks-I will leave it to Jerry and Bruce to pick another date.

Denis

Paso Robles Ultralight Association, 2005