Flew all around that area in 1953/1954 when at Redstone. Learned to
fly there,
Virg
On 1/24/2015 10:20 PM, Mark Langford via KRnet wrote:
> My plan for the day was to fly down to Pat Shows' place in Mississippi
> to see his KR collection for sale, but I ran out of time and decided
> to just fly around the patch, literally. I did a big loop around
> Huntsville, landing at 10 airports in less than three hours, climbing
> as high as 6500' between airports, and burning 9.8 gallons of fuel in
> the process.
>
> My main goal was to become more familiar with the iFly 720 and iEFIS
> as navigation aids, improve my approaches to strange airports, and to
> practice some crosswind landings. It was windy and gusty, mostly
> crosswinds, and I gained a little more confidence during the
> flight....didn't manage to roll it up in a ball! See enclosed flight
> path.
>
> I was pushing my luck with sundown on the way back, and started
> wondering if anybody's surveyed the LED nav-light and strobe scene
> lately. I think it's time for N891JF to sprout some nav lights and
> strobes. I have a new Whelan Comet Flash that I'll likely use for
> strobes, but I'm sure LED nav-lights have come a long way since I
> bought the three for N56ML over 10 years ago.
>
>
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