Some pictures of all the fun we had yesterday.

Sorry about the random order.

Kent camped @ our hangar overnight ... he was starting to unload when I arrived bright & early!

He has a great low profile trailer / camper ... easy to load/unload MTO.

He has a good rotor hoist system to make rotor-up easy for one.

We planned - preflighted ... final brief & set off for Highpoint private fields @ Valley center 12NM south.

We did a low pass & around then landed ... my FIRST on grass in MY machine ... went great ... I'm getting the sight picture & descent rate better in new fields!

A 1/2 hr to visit with early birds & hosts Doug & Sabrina & plan another fly-around ... as we were early as I didn't want to land first time there in front of a crowd!

off to next nearby airport Stearman Field @ Benton ... should'a PLANNED better ... OH-crap moment when I couldn't get the right radio freq & there was a BIG "Stearman Days" fly-in ... bloody planes everywhere ... I just went low ... got in pattern & put down nice at the end & straight off to parking! ( No radio) ... Kent saw me landed & came in too ... he'd been telling everyone ... there were TWO gyros in the area! Good lessons learned ... NHD ...BLOODY LUCKY ... thankful for alert & watchful professional pilots! Anyway ... Kent was thrilled with the excursion & after a drink & fielding lots of ???'s about the gyros ... we took off back to Highpoint & were 1/2 hr late for lunch ... but no wait in chow-line! ... awesome crowd there in Dougs hangar. Lots of good visiting ... rides in several planes & bug-eater breezy .. Kent borrowed my helmet for his passengers & took several up ... great response with new gyro-grins! Density alt was high mid-arvo & he had to stop .. a couple of sad heavy-weights unable to ride that day!

We got ready to return to KEWK via a fly-over of our farm ... I managed to get a rough bit of ground to start my TO roll & set up a wicked frontwheel shimmy ...aborted TO & checked all out ... Kent was helpful with advice about the smooth area of runway & I lined up straight & did a near Metro-launch .. to get front up fast ... very little headwind to help!
Flying with a "wingman/ leader" is SO incredibly fun & takes a LOT of the newbie "all alone up here" stress out!

The wind was a perfect light southerly all day! ... perfect for me!

All our great plans for flying my long XC circuit today went bye-bye with the early IFR & then crazy strong & gusty winds ... NOT really predicted either!!!

Had a nice relaxing couple of hours this AM polishing rotors, cleaning, preflighting, fuelling .. all ready to go next weekend ... weather permitting!

Meanwhile ... a couple of days rain ...nice for me in 48 hours ( maybe) ... I will work on tweaking my prop pitch to get better cruise performance ... totallly sluggo at present & engine working too hard!


Just ecstatic!! Cloud 10!!!

Most excellent! You guys ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Great report .... I have missed fj lately

OZrora sure looks good outside on the ramp , wow !!!! very nice

Great pictures

Chris- Good to see you getting Ozrora out and showing that beautiful machine. You dun good gal!


Stan

Just looks awesome!!!!

LOL ..... well looks like I forgot to log-in when posting my pics from the 'puter ... you guys figured out it was my post not FJ's!!!

He's truck'n hay to CO today to pay for fuel & legal bills!

Hey I recognize the Blue MTO gyro and its trailer.