Although it’s great fun to take a passenger (usually a co-worker) along, it’s also nice to just fly by myself sometimes. There’s nothing like a peaceful (I have an ANR headset) cross country flight to leave the worries of the world behind on the ground. One of the items in the self-assessment checklist before every flight is “stress”. Although I’ve never arrived at the airport very stressed, I’ve found that any stress I felt just melts away when I start the aircraft pre-flight. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry pretty much summed it up:
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things; it gives me a sense of wider horizons.
The actual flight consisted of a straight out-and-back to Orangeville, where I overflew CPV2, a private grass strip. Rather than relying on the GPS, I used the VOR to maintain my track and stay out of Toronto Pearson’s (CYYZ) airspace. I also took the opportunity to calculate the winds aloft based on compass heading, ground track, air speed, and ground speed. It was pretty close to what was forecast (off by 2 knots and 20 degrees).
Date: 2007-Apr-24
Aircraft: C-FPME, DA20-A1
Passenger: none
Route: CYKF - CPV2 - CYKF
Flight Time: 1.0h
Takeoffs and Landings: 1
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