Sunday Morning Cubbing

[Pilawt]

It was a nice, clear, calm morning, so I put on my CC hat and shirt and committed aviation.



Here's a video of the flight, including a landing at the beautiful Daybreak private airstrip (WA46) -- just 12 NM from Pearson, but it seems a world away.

[randylervold]

Jeff, no one can accuse you of not enjoying both your plane and aviation! When I see your pics and videos I can see the pure joy of flight that you experience in all of them... good for you.

To have an aircraft that you know and trust, to be skilled with it so that confidence is high and anxiety low, to have a beautiful environment to fly in, and the time with no distractions to just go enjoy it for the pure joy of it... well, to me that's the true "joy of aviation". Seems like you know that perhaps better than most, and I'm so pleased that our little airplanes can help in that pursuit.

I was just out this morning giving a ride to a prosepctive customer from NZ. I was in the front seat this time (I'm not usually) and headed out to Buena (WA97). The air was still, I was flying with him following me on the controls, and we made three absolutely perfect landings in the grass using just our fingertips on the stick and throttle and tippy toes on the rudders, kind of like a rolling a ball onto a carpet. It's almost a zen-like connection with aircraft and elements, a truly wonderful feeling.

Blue skies and smooth grass runways!

[Pilawt]

we made three absolutely perfect landings in the grass using just our fingertips on the stick and throttle and tippy toes on the rudders, kind of like a rolling a ball onto a carpet. It's almost a zen-like connection with aircraft and elements, a truly wonderful feeling.

Beautiful description, Randy.

The one thing that the video unfortunately does not depict, is the one second or so in which I could hear and feel the main tires grazing the tops of the grass at Daybreak, before they actually contacted the ground. Now that made my day.

(Disclaimer: I erased the video of a landing at Pearson a few days earlier, which would have documented my Sport Cub as the epicenter -- and cause -- of seismic activity in the Northwest. )