Out-n-Backs

So most of UPT has been extremely busy, constantly running around and trying to keep my head above water, but since transition is over and we've started navigation life is AWESOME! Wednesday I rode down to Tallahassee as another student flew. So I spent the flight looking around (u don't get to do that much when ur the one flying) saw University of Alabama's stadium and did some more cloud gazing, we started descending and I wasn't sure if we were gonna nick the top of one billowing tower or not (felt like a roller coaster when u think they are gonna run u into a wall) and accidentally let out a grunt when we hit it, forgetting that it was a cloud and not a sky scraper. I always feel like I'm stepping into high society when we land, the general aviation terminals are designed to appease people who can afford a private jet, very luxurious, with TV rooms with leather recliners, sleeping rooms, small gyms, fancy briefing rooms... I got to fly back at night, which is always breath taking - stars above and below (city lights).
I got home around 11:30 but couldn't sleep cuz the next day I was going to fly both legs of the flight, and since I was the only one planning I got to choose the destination, and I wouldn't be an Air Force Bearcat if I didn't choose Booneville. We flew to Little Rock then did a VFR (low flight using ground references) leg to Fort Smith, which just so happens to go directly over Blue Mtn Lake and Booneville (at least is does when I plan it). We were wings level with the lodge on Mtn Magazine on our right and Flood Mtn/the ridges you see from mom's front porch on our left. Navigation is pretty easy when you don't have to look at a map. "There's the petit jean, that'll take us behind the ball fields, Oh and there's the white water tower in my back yard" We shot an approach into Fort Smith then continued north to stop and eat dinner with Mandy, Brian, and the kids. Meg is ridiculously cute, and has just as much fun playing in the tall water fountain in the lobby as seeing the plane, I loved it!