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| Seattle Day |
Had a Seattle Day with Lisa; IKEA, Seattle Aquarium, and Pike Place Market.
photos
video: jellyfish under light
video: octopus
photos
video: jellyfish under light
video: octopus
| Not so good flight |
So the day is clear and Lisa and I haven’t flown together for a while and amazingly the plane was available, so we decided to take a short flight.
My idea was to fly to Toledo and watch for skydivers.
We got to the airport and the plane was already done from its previous trip, it got fueled and ready to go. The flight museum next door fired up one of their fighter jets and taxi’d for takeoff. Looked to be a fun flight.
After the fighter took off, we took off and headed south. Almost immediately we could tell the air was rough and the turbulence continual and uncomfortable. There was a bit of rolling action occasionally, like a mountain wave, although we weren’t near the mountains.
We flew south toward Chehalis. There were a few significant roll-bumps that knocked us around pretty good. We elected not to land at Chehalis because Lisa was uncomfortable, so we returned toward Olympia.
On the way there, the fighter jet was out doing acrobatic maneuvers, which was cool to look at until it started closing on our position. I couldn’t tell exactly where they were in relation to us, and we had the “staying in the same place on the windshield but getting larger” situation, so I made an evasive turn to descend and turn away; which disrupted Lisa further. She was scared and I don’t blame her.
Then we made it back to Olympia and I did some landings; we had a miscommunication and Lisa has wanted to land and stop right away, and I interpreted it as just to stay at Olympia, so ultimately she had a bad flight, which is never what we want.
There was about a 5 to 10 knot wind shear on approach; not enough to create a problem but I certainly noticed.
Finally, after we shut down, her door was completely jammed and even with both of us we couldn’t get it open, so I had her climb over my seat to get out.
Well I guess not every flight is the best flight ever.
My idea was to fly to Toledo and watch for skydivers.
We got to the airport and the plane was already done from its previous trip, it got fueled and ready to go. The flight museum next door fired up one of their fighter jets and taxi’d for takeoff. Looked to be a fun flight.
After the fighter took off, we took off and headed south. Almost immediately we could tell the air was rough and the turbulence continual and uncomfortable. There was a bit of rolling action occasionally, like a mountain wave, although we weren’t near the mountains.
We flew south toward Chehalis. There were a few significant roll-bumps that knocked us around pretty good. We elected not to land at Chehalis because Lisa was uncomfortable, so we returned toward Olympia.
On the way there, the fighter jet was out doing acrobatic maneuvers, which was cool to look at until it started closing on our position. I couldn’t tell exactly where they were in relation to us, and we had the “staying in the same place on the windshield but getting larger” situation, so I made an evasive turn to descend and turn away; which disrupted Lisa further. She was scared and I don’t blame her.
Then we made it back to Olympia and I did some landings; we had a miscommunication and Lisa has wanted to land and stop right away, and I interpreted it as just to stay at Olympia, so ultimately she had a bad flight, which is never what we want.
There was about a 5 to 10 knot wind shear on approach; not enough to create a problem but I certainly noticed.
Finally, after we shut down, her door was completely jammed and even with both of us we couldn’t get it open, so I had her climb over my seat to get out.
Well I guess not every flight is the best flight ever.
| Mark, Sue, and Sam |
Mark and co. came up for a week this last week – they did a lot of job and apartment hunting; also Mark and Dad built a shed for us and Sam got to visit with the hound.
photos from the visit
photos from the visit
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| I wrote a big long post and it got deleted |
Grr web browsers... Text boxes are the real deal these days; web apps and all. Don’t have an non-undo erase-all key or something. Don’t dispose of the data if a user posts and it fails. Help us out here.
