Fly like you train and train like you fly.

Fred has a new granddaughter - number 4.  She was born to Joe and Joan, currently based at Camp LeJeune. Todays mission was to take the day off and fly. I was the PIC all day today, but used the opportunity to give both Fred and Ed some experience.

Fred met me down at the Smyrna house, and we packed up some light snacks and hit the road. Cheswold had their usual bullshit speed trap in the 50' where the speed drops to 25mph, but we crawled through there and denied them their toll. Departing Delaware Airpark for Georgetown, Fred learned about takeoff procedures from runway 9. The new lights on my wing tips were flashing to alert anyone inbound on 27, when we turned southbound climbing 3000.

Over the town of Milford, DE,  while on VFR flight following with Dover, I let Dover know we'd be doing a few turns before continuing. Moderate turns in either direction made for a nice start to the day, before we started a descent for GED. Arriving there, we set up for runway 4, where Fred's landing was so smooth that the wheels spun up before they took any weight.

Departing Georgetown, Fred jumped in the back so that Ed could experience an actual cross country with some weather thrown in there. I got the chance to show off how I have the cherokee configured as we headed south to OAJ. I do love this airplane, so the three of us had a good time.

No serious weather today, just some smooth layers that led to the need for flying the ILS by hand down to around 700' agl, as I recall. I talked the poor guy's ear off, but he did a wonderful job flying the airplane right down the chute. Awesome thing to watch. Our tailwind on the way down allowed us to arrive after only 2 hrs 30 minutes.

Going home, we stopped in Melfa, Va for a bit of relief from the headwind; flying the GPS 5 with my WAAS system.

The last leg back to GED didn't take too long, ending in a VOR 4 again by hand.

Good time all around.