Spring has sprung! part 5

[beaky]

I'm taking a sick day (laid low by a nasty cold or something), and I'll be crawling back into bed as soon as I finish my echinacea tea... so here's some more from Sunday.
We stop for a few minutes, then saddle up for the quick hop to 47N.  Here I'm checking my homemade navlog to confirm my rough heading, and the local CTAF, which I always jot down next to a little map of each airport. Hmmmm...







I now realize I had the comm radio on the wrong freq. D'oh!! Haven't made that boo-boo in years...





Nice takeoff, if a tad off-center. Plenty of room here, though.






A little lighter now, QJ gives me an honest 700fpm at 60 KIAS as we climb out... you can also see by looking at the turn coordinator and the yoke that we were just getting jostled by turbulence and I was just starting to correct....





I think Jinx was trying to get a shot of the NYC skyline here... it was visible, but I don't think it came out on tape.





Another cool zoom shot; here's a nice little out-of-the-way homestead near the airport.







In just a few minutes I'm on a 45 for left downwind for 25 at 47N; there's the golf course, and the runway is dead ahead.





Next: a somewhat worse landing...

[FLYING_TRUCKER]

Looking good Sean.

What is all over the windshield, can't be bugs this time of year?
You must be over a rural area as some of the roads look like they are gravel but do not see much in the line of farms.

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

[beaky]

Looking good Sean.

What is all over the windshield, can't be bugs this time of year?

Oh yes it can... probably a little oily crud, too- didn't look as bad as in the photos, or I'd have cleaned it. Winter has definitely given up  here, I think. The flies and bees are out, but no mosquitoes yet.

You must be over a rural area as some of the roads look like they are gravel but do not see much in the line of farms.

The whole route is suburban/semi-rural: there are few large farms around there, but quite a few little pastures, hayfields, cornfields, etc.

[FLYING_TRUCKER]

Okay...thanks

Strange bugs in the first week of April...they got to be aliens or the old girls relatives

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug