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As I type this, it's in the back seat of a fairly large (for a single-engine) 4-seater plane, headed back across the Mississippi River.

Is that a first? Someone flying in with their own private plane to pick up an instrument from you?

Did they land at blokeplace airstrip?

bort2.0 wrote: ↑Thu May 18, 2023 10:04 am Is that a first? Someone flying in with their own private plane to pick up an instrument from you?

Did they land at blokeplace airstrip?

Somehow, I'm thinking not...but I can't recall...

otherwise...

Years ago, I bought a RM 4/4 C from a FedEx employee who flew in with it (back when they did "jump-seat"). I'm thinking it was 2 A.M. at the Memphis airport.

I had sold a (bad) bought-new 188 "Anniversary" model and replaced it with this (to me: wacky) instrument.

188: stuffy/2nd rotor which I was never able to completely make reliable
RM 4/4: typical really wacky RM 4/4 scale, pitches just above middle C (D/D-flat) unplayable

I'm pretty sure this incident ruined/ended the FedEx "jump seat" program:
https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/ ... 286453002/

I believe part of the reason I'm so damn picky (re: my personal instruments) is because - during my so-called "career" - I've really struggled with some "remarkable" (euphemistic adjective) ones.

The nice little airport (really nice building, very secure, etc.)
5 miles (10 minutes) due north - through "back roads"

Dad owns a 186, bought his beginner son a YBB-103, and now his son is entering ninth grade...

The airport folks let me drive my car through the (normally: locked) gate back to that "compass" spot to load the tuba onto the plane.

I'm disappointed.

I thought he landed the plane in your pasture.

Three Valves wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 12:59 pm I'm disappointed.

I thought he landed the plane in your pasture.

Even were I do level the woods (just south of the entrance) and cut down all those cultivated trees on either side of the road in (epic trimming job recently discussed), I'd probably only have about a 700' landing strip...That's about a third of minimum for small planes...unless someone is a trick pilot. (The first 400' or so of the 1100' of straight section is no good, because it's steep uphill.)