It was a nice day. We departed KSAT and flew up to HYI to meet a friend and check out a Mooney he is working on. This guy had to rebuild nearly half of each wing. Someone had run the Mooney off a runway and in a fence. He built new spars and ribs by hand, and it was amazing to see how they looked like factory new parts. After looking over the work progress we all decided we needed a $100 hamburger, so of to the airport cafe'. It's just a small little place there at the San Marcos airport, but it has a pretty good burger. From there we hopped over to KBAZ for some "cheap" fuel...$4.35 a gallon. When you burn nearly 30 GPH cheap gas is a must. After our fuel stop we departed KBAZ and made our way back to KSAT, it was my leg and everything was going fine. We had been told to fly to the SAT VOR which is typical when arriving from the north east. Once we made it to the vor things took an interesting turn. Over the VOR I expected a turn to the south for a 12L landing, but the call didn't come When the guy (ATC) did call he sounded all freaked out telling us to switch to another approach frequency and that we had radio problems. We switched back and forth to the two radios we had, all the while approach was turning us back to the north away from the Airport (we could hear them they couldn't hear us). Finally the turned us back south to the field and cleared us to land runway 12L. I went ahead and let Jimmy have control of the airplane (since it is his and he is more familiar) and just like that they could hear again...come to find out it was just a push to talk issue. After regaining radio communication with ATC they calmed down a little and everything went just fine from there!
Monday, October 13, 2008
Flying the Baron.
I got a chance to go fly the Baron a couple days ago. I never pass up that opportunity! There is just something about sitting between the engines instead of behind one!
It was a nice day. We departed KSAT and flew up to HYI to meet a friend and check out a Mooney he is working on. This guy had to rebuild nearly half of each wing. Someone had run the Mooney off a runway and in a fence. He built new spars and ribs by hand, and it was amazing to see how they looked like factory new parts. After looking over the work progress we all decided we needed a $100 hamburger, so of to the airport cafe'. It's just a small little place there at the San Marcos airport, but it has a pretty good burger. From there we hopped over to KBAZ for some "cheap" fuel...$4.35 a gallon. When you burn nearly 30 GPH cheap gas is a must. After our fuel stop we departed KBAZ and made our way back to KSAT, it was my leg and everything was going fine. We had been told to fly to the SAT VOR which is typical when arriving from the north east. Once we made it to the vor things took an interesting turn. Over the VOR I expected a turn to the south for a 12L landing, but the call didn't come When the guy (ATC) did call he sounded all freaked out telling us to switch to another approach frequency and that we had radio problems. We switched back and forth to the two radios we had, all the while approach was turning us back to the north away from the Airport (we could hear them they couldn't hear us). Finally the turned us back south to the field and cleared us to land runway 12L. I went ahead and let Jimmy have control of the airplane (since it is his and he is more familiar) and just like that they could hear again...come to find out it was just a push to talk issue. After regaining radio communication with ATC they calmed down a little and everything went just fine from there!
It was a nice day. We departed KSAT and flew up to HYI to meet a friend and check out a Mooney he is working on. This guy had to rebuild nearly half of each wing. Someone had run the Mooney off a runway and in a fence. He built new spars and ribs by hand, and it was amazing to see how they looked like factory new parts. After looking over the work progress we all decided we needed a $100 hamburger, so of to the airport cafe'. It's just a small little place there at the San Marcos airport, but it has a pretty good burger. From there we hopped over to KBAZ for some "cheap" fuel...$4.35 a gallon. When you burn nearly 30 GPH cheap gas is a must. After our fuel stop we departed KBAZ and made our way back to KSAT, it was my leg and everything was going fine. We had been told to fly to the SAT VOR which is typical when arriving from the north east. Once we made it to the vor things took an interesting turn. Over the VOR I expected a turn to the south for a 12L landing, but the call didn't come When the guy (ATC) did call he sounded all freaked out telling us to switch to another approach frequency and that we had radio problems. We switched back and forth to the two radios we had, all the while approach was turning us back to the north away from the Airport (we could hear them they couldn't hear us). Finally the turned us back south to the field and cleared us to land runway 12L. I went ahead and let Jimmy have control of the airplane (since it is his and he is more familiar) and just like that they could hear again...come to find out it was just a push to talk issue. After regaining radio communication with ATC they calmed down a little and everything went just fine from there!
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