Reunited with Tweedy
The last few days have been remarkable for me. I thoroughly enjoy being back. The weather is good, my cat Cosm0 (for Cosmo Kramer) remembers and seems genuinely pleased to have me back again…..
AND I get to sleep in my own bed again. I am happy.
After a busy week, with doctor visits, grocery shopping, washing, cleaning and visiting friends (who very pleased to see me again), I made plans on Saturday to visit an old friend I have been ignoring as of late.
After an easy morning with breakfast, news paper and a visit from Jack Wilhelmson (eznoselift.com) , I finally headed out to the airport to see Tweedy.
She was sitting in the back of the hanger buried behind a number of Spam Cans looking totally out of place.. A thick coating of dust was on her. We hadn’t been together since September 21 st…. YIKES could how could I have ignored her this long?
Will I be able to warm her up? Or, will she be pissed at me and require massive maintenance on her for hours due to my lack of attention? Something always seems to cranky and cause me issues IF I don’t work the old bird out regularly. Finicky she can be…
After installing the Trio Pilot Pro which has been upgrade by Chuck to the latest and greatest software upgrade, we headed out.
You know, I have flown N123LE for total 55.6 hrs and Tweedy for 2570 hours, and while the new gal who came life 2.5 years ago, I couldnt stop thinking of Tweedy. N123LE is fun, racy, FAST, brilliantly intelligent and sweet bird as one could ever hope to fly……..bit yet, there is just a wonderful feeling when you’re reunited with a bird you spent 14 years with and just love to fly. We have been though everything Mother Nature could throw at us. She is as dependable an easy going as one could hope for.
Tweedy just started without a fuss, purred like a kitten, and off we went to fly down the Ashely river at 600 ft listening to wonderful music to overfly the city. Rusty said he would be somewhere on the Ashely River, I am going to be over the river looking down at….well everyone, and no one cares.
A south end of Sullivan’s Island
and the Cooper River Bridges
The new code on the Trio Pro is fantastic. I have been a beta tester for their equipment since the pre-deveopment of the EZ-1 altitude hold. Beta testers have the fun of finding issues with pre-release software and making recommendations to the developers. I’ll tell you what the Trio products are really good and you can ask for a better company to deal with. Chuck developed the product and wrote the software code and was extremely supportive of my crazy suggestions and recommendations. The new code he has in the A/P really works well and produces a much more stable ride than any I have used so far.
Thanks Trio for your fantastic support when I needed to get the A/P sent out to me overnight in Greeley, CO.
Back in the hangar, put the good old gal back to bed. Off spend a nice quite night at home writing….
