Grounded

[outermarker]

I found out some sad news today: the plane I both soloed and check... rode (??!) in has been... "sent to a farm where it'll be happier

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[kishenehn]

Oh, no. :(

[outermarker]

It happens; at least no one was hurt when they put this plane to rest.

[ironwrought]

Aww. :(

[outermarker]

You always remember your first, right?

[ironwrought]

Well now that it's gone, it's time for some previously unheard of rich uncle to kick and leave you a plane and a silo of fuel.

[outermarker]

and a silo of fuel.

Yay fuel hedging!

End of an era ...

[virtualmom]

Is that the plane that's in the collage picture you gave me? Sigh ...

Re: End of an era ...

[outermarker]

I don't believe so, but I honestly can't remember which pictures are in that collage; I know the one to Petaluma was 9849L, and the one of me looking at the POH was a 172SP (which was why I was looking at the POH; I was so used to flying 172s at that point, I had forgotten something); there might be one of 21J in the other two photos, though.

ADF INOP Indefinitely

[terraplanner]

How I did enjoy the making of her featured film, "Fly Me To Modesto" with such great, shaky cinematography! Ill miss her butterscotch livery.

Re: ADF INOP Indefinitely

[outermarker]

Ill miss her butterscotch livery.

... and her disco, non-RNAV ways...

[cjsmith]

Aw, it's always sad to lose one. I felt unaccountably disturbed when the plane I flew my first acro in got ground-looped into severe airframe damage oblivion.

[outermarker]

Yah, that's always... disquieting.

I remember when 737WF, a 172-trainer that I really liked and was renting quite often bit the dust.

Whenever this happens, a small, but very distinct, part of me says "What if you had been PIC at the time..."

I think that's why it's "unaccountable."

[cjsmith]

There's also the eerie component of it that comes when you see a plane you've done acro in with its wings folded up. That's not a comfortable happy feeling.