The weather in Seattle has been amazing this week…very clear skies and warm temps (for February) – highs around 60. So I went up flying with a friend from work. He’s been flying most of his life – military, commerical, and recreationally. He’s also a flight instructor. We left Everett’s Paine Field and flew over to Jefferson County Airport (Port Townshend) and had breakfast at the cafe. We turned around and came back and I was at work by 10am.
Anyway, I had a blast of course. For those who don’t know – I took flying lessons for about 6 months in 2002 but stopped after we moved back to the Bay Area and took on a bigger mortgage. The experience this morning brought back several fun memories as well as some joy in knowing that I haven’t lost all of that training I got many years.
As for the plane, it was a Piper Archer II. Sweet little plane for training…much easier (for me at least) than the Cessna 172 I trainer in before. I recall always fighting to keep the 172 trim during flight whereas the Archer was much easier to stabilize.
Here is a photo of Mt Baker taken from over Whidbey Island:
