{"id":468,"date":"2013-02-03T09:44:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T14:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/?p=468"},"modified":"2013-02-03T11:26:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T16:26:53","slug":"seaplane-adventure-part-7-mondays-more-advanced-float-flying-with-dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Seaplane Adventure – Part #7 – Monday’s Slow Start"},"content":{"rendered":"

So now its about 11 am or so, and Dave and I spend a few minutes getting to know each other. He asks how I’d like to approach my training – minimum flight time or maximum experience. Since I had already learned that Chuck Brown wouldn’t be available for my check-ride today, I went for the maximum experience. I intended to fly today until I got tired, and stop before the fatigue mistakes kicked in.<\/p>\n

The plan we came up with was to fly for 90 minutes or so right here in this vicinity; have lunch at the fishing camp; and then fly the afternoon away.<\/p>\n

Right here on the lake, we start with rough water take-off and landing work done within sight of the dock. Several circuits with normal take-off and landings went well; practice step taxi and plow taxi maneuvers; and preparation for the oral test as we flew along. Even though I had spent 5 hours sitting dock-side before I finally got moving, I was good to go and having fun at this point. The entire effort was worth it. Getting away from work and being absorbed in this new challenge provided a necessary distraction.<\/p>\n

Lunch was at a restaurant that had been recommended, but I had avoided up to now. You can see it over the left-most golf cart. That is an outside bar to the right of the enclosed shack\/restaurant. That shack actually turned out to be a nice clean restaurant inside, that served up an amazing fried Grouper sandwich. This place could be a really good time when you didn’t have any place to go or things to do. Reminded me of almost exactly a year earlier when Ted and I rode to Bike Week down in South Carolina. Same deal, only flying was part of this one.<\/p>\n

\"CherryPocketFishingCamp\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Maybe eating fried good wasn’t the best choice. I had some serious flying ahead of me, and I could have used a bit more energy at the very end. I’ll talk about that in the next post on this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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