Worked at home all week. Nothing special, other than it was nice to be home.
On Saturday, another CAP member (Brian) and I flew over to Suwannee County Airport (24J) in Live Oak to fly CAP Cadets. Really nice little airport. Beautiful runway with full length taxiway. Nice hangars including a beautiful EAA combination meeting building / hangar that the EAA is nice enough to allow the CAP to use. Was also national Young Eagles day, so quite a few folks there for Young Eagles rides. There were six cadets scheduled, and it was to be my first time flying cadets. Since Brian is instrument rated, we decided to have me fly over and for him to fly back -- just in case there was the fairly typical Florida afternoon weather. We were wheels up by 0730 and landed by 0830. The flight over was uneventful and pleasant, although the visibility was a bit hazy. When we arrived, we learned that only two cadets had shown up. There was one other member who had just transitioned from being a cadet to being a senior member. He was eager to make some progress on his scanner rating, so we decided that Brian would fly the two cadets and I would work with the new senior member to make some progress on his MS SQTR.
While I was a little disappointed that I wouldn't get to fly cadets, I was really excited about about this young man's enthusiasm and preparedness. In many ways, he reminded me of myself when I first joined the CAP. It was a great opportunity to provide some "give back" for me and I was glad to do it. By the end of the morning, we had made really good progress on his Mission Scanner SQTR.
The flight home was uneventful, but we were really glad we weren't headed any farther south, as there was a strong line of thunderstorms that would have made the trip uncomfortable at best and potentially impossible since we didn't have on-board weather in the aircraft we were flying.
Sunday - usual coffee at the airport, small crowd. Ended up chatting with a number of the squadron members. Then Jeanie and I went to Jacksonville to buy Dad Melvin's father's day gift. After returning to this area, we went to Staples to buy regular and photo paper that were on-sale. Between the rebates and Staples bucks from print cartridge recycling, we actually "made" money on the purchase. When we walked into the store, there was a big display with paper and I just assumed that this was the paper that was on sale - you know what they say about when you assume... it makes an Ass out of U and Me. The assistant manager was really nice nice about fact that I had grabbed the wrong paper that wasn't on-sale / rebate eligible. I of course, felt like a dolt and apologized profusely, so I guess in this case, neither of us ended up being asses.
After we returned home, we watched "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."
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Posted by David at June 16, 2009 07:00 AM | Categorized under: A day in the life, Flying