Visit to Twin Lakes, SC
Today Tony and I flew up to Twin Lakes, SC (S17) a fly in community with about 30 residents to visit with some builders as part of a field trip with the local EAA chapter. It was a fun trip with LOTS of IFR time. The entire trip to Twin Lakes was IFR (.9 hrs) and the clouds finally opened up enough to see the runway for a quick dash to the ground. I had planned to go to Augusta, GA for an ILS approach if I had too.
There were lots of great project being worked on here. Quite surprising for such a small air park. The highlight was a 7/10 scale P-51 replica.
When I saw this nose art on the wall by R. T. Foster (a fantastic artist who I met at Oshkosh through my buddy Bob Becket),
I started talking to by builder and found out
he knew Bob, and West his business partner. We had some really good friends in common. What a small world it is….
About 2 pm the rain finally stopped, giving Tony and I enough of a window to fly back to Charleston.
Flew though some rain and ended up doing a instrument approach back into CHS.
I love flying IFR. The weather is challenging and increadiably beautiful.