Got in two hours of airtime on (finally) a great day.
Great afternoon flying in the ‘Coupe yesterday. Flew for two hours – but my wife wanted to stay home and catch up with “stuff” – so I was solo. Beautiful sky with broken clouds at 6000. I flew from the mouth of Delaware Bay at Cape Henlopen, Lewes, Delaware south to Assateague Island, home of the wild horses, and back. I made the “obligatory” circle around our community after sending a brief text below to “look up.” So, she was outside and grabbed this photo – of a tiny spec of an airplane against an awesome sky.
This was the first decently “cool” day to fly since I got my Flight Review in late June. The temperature was in the low 80s, instead of the mid to high 90s that we’ve had for the last several weeks.
Yeah, I was up at 1700 feet. The local banner-tow guys cruise north along the beaches of Ocean City, Maryland and Fenwick Island, Delaware at 500 or below but then head back to their base near our community and crank up their altitude a bit. Our home is exactly two miles inland from the beach and I wanted to give them plenty of space. Although I did not see a banner plane all afternoon.