airborne weekend

Finally :)

We traveled to Ararat this morning to get our annual check flights done. I was checked out first and then tortured Ziggy myself which was a pleasure. They also gave me one more local victim to check out before solo. He did well and went up by himself in a Puchacz.

Weather was very average with clouds just 2000 ft AGL, some decent winds and no workable thermals. Nope, we are not in France anymore. It's always good to go up though so we enjoyed the day.

not sure what he's celebrating before launch

I'll be finishing the annual inspection on the 55 tomorrow so she'll be ready to go next weekend. Summer can come - we're ready!