Archive for the ‘General LSA’ Category
World Record Flight is “Go” for Saturday
Just a quick note to say that Hope One will be taking off from Ft Worth/Meacham on Saturday morning at 8 – 8:30 to set a time and distance speed record. This is an NAA/FAI Sanctioned event that will end in Branson, MO late Saturday morning. For more info: www.FlightHS.com
I know that everyone is flying out but at least we’ll be sharing the same sky!
Take care my friends.
8th Annual Great Southern Sonex Gathering
| Nov ’10 |
| 6 |
The 8th Annual Great Southern Sonex Gathering will be held in Bryan, Texas, on November 6th (rain date Nov. 13th). We expect this year to be the best ever. There are several more sonex aircraft flying in the area and we are working on some interesting things for the event. Expect a lot of friendly people, great airplanes, flight demonstrations, rides, forums, good food and even door prizes. This is open to everyone so bring your family and friends.
Critter’s Lodge Fall Fly-In
| Sep ’10 |
| 25 |
| 4:30 pm |
THE FALL 2010 FLY-IN
September 25 ~ 27, 2010
See their website - http://www.critterslodge.org/
(this is 153 miles from Propwash)~Starting at 6:30P. Aviators like to camp out? Join us we have camping facilities, indoor restrooms, solar outdoor showers, firewood, GOOD FOOD. Call Wendell 903 536 7000
Rain date 10/1
Critter’s Lodge is located on the Houston sectional chart near the 30 degree radial out of Leona identified as “Dillard Airport” (TE01) Packed turf, 3,100 foot lighted runway, elevation 255 ft.~~ MONITORING 122.9 ~~ Land and taxi at your own risk, trees on both sides and end of runway. The runway is suitable for piston driven aircraft of 12,500 pounds or less. Taxi and follow signage to proper parking area to avoid back taxi. taxi and park in mowed areas only.
For reserved campsite parking, we will offer limited “Reserved parking” spaces for $5.00 each on a First Come Basis, along with 22 Acres of pasture parking. For a reserved parking space fly-by early or email us to reserve your preferred space or for site locations (CrittersLodge@starband.net). The deadline for reserved fees is September 18. Looking forward to your visit.
If you would like locate near special friends please let us know in advance, if possible, we will be glad to accommodate you.
New page – Member Videos
A new page has been created which may be of interest to some. Seeing that just about everyone is starting to figure out YouTube, we can easily embed youtube videos and have them apart of any post or page.
Go check out our new page which features some of the club members and some good flyin’
http://dfwliteflyers.org/hangertalk/photo-gallery/member-videos/
The member video page is currently located under the “Photo Gallery” category pull-down at the top of the website.
A 3 yr old’s first flight in a Sonex
I took up my daughter, Selina, for the first time this past week on Friday. We bought a booster seat, but we’ll have to return it as it’s too big length wise and gets in the way of the control stick. We ended up boosting her up with a folded blanket.
She had a blast, didn’t cry one bit. She did have to hold her headset in place for the entire flight, so that’s a little problem we’ll have to solve, but otherwise, it should all work out just fine.
She is a bit too short to be able to see outside unless I put the plane in a turn, so we may have to try and boost her up a bit more. It was fun to finally take her flying. I look forward to hundreds of more hours with my girls.
RECKLAW – 26th. Annual Flying M Ranch Fly-In and Campout
| Oct ’10 | Oct |
| 22 | 24 |
26th. Annual Flying M Ranch Fly-In and Campout,
and
18th Annual Cub Migration Oct. 22-24, 2010
(4th weekend in Oct., Rain or Shine!)
Aircraft Owners, Pilots and other Aviation enthusiasts welcome.
NOT OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC! NO VENDORS 
My wife goes for her first flight
Recently, I was signed off by Jeff Mountain for completion of the Sport Pilot requirements in a Legend Cub. A few weeks later weather improved enough for me to take my wife, Liz, on her first flight in a light plane. She also became my very first passenger (that was not an instructor). It was a perfect day, wind was 0-2 mph straight down the runway, nice and clear, and little thermal activity. I couldn’t have picked a better day. My wife was very nervous, but came away feeling safe and having enjoyed her first flight. Below is some video footage she took of this memorable event.
