Green Fields

The only time it's OK for the club to be without a field is on days like today. For future reference, today is gray, rainy and about 50 degrees. Reminds me of New Jersey. M, the Canadian in the office, actually opened his window blinds today - he usually keeps them closed because it's "too sunny".

There are 9 mowed acres outside of my second-story office window. Because it is in restricted airspace, it is not a flyable site although, I sometimes use it to practice ground-handling.

Ground-handling... does anyone do ground-handling anymore? Sure, we all did lots of it when we were learning but now that we can fly, who bothers to practice on the ground anymore? Funny thing is that when we had a field, everyone did a lot more ground-handling. Why? Mostly because it was fun and because we were helping to train new pilots. Sometimes, after making the drive to the field and finding it blown out, you just couldn't get back in the car and go home without doing something flying related... like talking about your first, last or next flying adventure or breaking out the wing for some ground-handling.

Sure, we flew a lot more when we had a field but we also ground-handled more. We talked more, planned more, innovated more, told stories more, agreed, disagreed, shared and just got together more.


So, even though there were no planned club activities, today I can blame it on the weather.