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rleffler
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 Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:10 am Post subject: RV-10 HQ -Great Experience |
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I am just now getting to the thousands of emails that I purposefully neglected while at OSH.
I did want to share my appreciation and thanks to all that were at the RV-10 HQ and other RV related activities this past week. I especially want to thank Susan and Brenda for putting up will all of us and keeping everyone well fed. I also want to thank them for allowing Bob and Gary to arrive early and reserve all our spaces. Without Bob’s and Gary’s effort, I know my OSH experience would have been the same. As a builder that is just starting, I learned a wealth of information from the many informal gatherings that took place at RV-10. I want to thank everyone for making both Brad and myself fell welcomed.
My trip home yesterday was a little more tense that my perfect trip to OSH. Originally, I had an IFR reservation at 9:30 to depart. I filed IFR to be talking to ATC over the lake and because the wx in Ohio was going to be marginal. When I talked to FSS in the morning, they said that I had nothing to worry about and it should be good vfr all the way home. ATC was giving an eta of 60-90 minutes for engine starts for IFR departures. Based upon our FSS briefing and the delays, Brad and I decided to depart VFR.
No big deal until we got to the other side of Lake Michigan. The 7000 scattered soon became 3500 broken, with visibility dropping to 3-4 miles. We thought about going above the broken layer, but decided against since the clouds were building vertically very quickly. Unfortunately, when we were about half way between Fort Wayne and Toledo, the ceiling and visibility started to drop considerably. Thankfully ATC wasn’t busy and I filed IFR for the rest of the trip. I spent the next hour in hard IFR until I broke out on the approach at KOSU.
This was the first time that I had been in hard IFR conditions since I got the rating and the first time that I was without an instructor. Most of my experience has just been popping up and down through the cloud layer. It got tense for a few moments, but I kept telling myself to keep the scan going and do what I was taught. Other than getting home a little more stressed out than planned, everything turned out for the best. Had I had a little more recent experience, I’m sure I would have been less stressed out. If there is any advice I can share for anyone with a newly minted IFR rating is to get as much experience in real IFR conditions as you can.
I’ve rambled enough about my trip home. I was fortunate enough to meet many new friends and fellow RV-10 builders of which the list is too long to mention. Based upon the comments from Brad and myself, my wife has already made a decision that we’ll both be there next year as long as I rent a RV for camping. We are already counting down the days until we see everyone again next year.
bob
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deej(at)deej.net
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:55 am Post subject: RV-10 HQ -Great Experience |
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I had a great time as well, and would also like to thank those that
helped to setup the camping. The most fun part of the trip for me was
just hanging out and chatting about airplanes, although I was mighty
disappointed to find out we weren't "Real Pilots"... 
-Dj
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Dj Merrill
Sportsman 2+2 Builder #7118
http://econ.duke.edu/~deej/sportsman/
"Many things that are unexplainable happen during the construction of an
airplane." --Dave Prizio, 30 Aug 2005
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