A week gone by already?  It took three flights just to get the seating position acceptable to all of the pilots in N25AP.  Felt too insecure with hard pushes – rotating the seat belts 180 degrees solved that problem.  Finally ready to really fly after several days of adjusting and tweaking.  Nikolay Timofeev arrived late last Wednesday to help me train.  What a help he was – his expert video reviews relived all of the good, and bad, points of my flights.  By the end of 5 days I was completely comfortable in Doug’s 300L and making progress.   Rob and Todd have been flying three hard flights a day in high wind and hot weather.  They are looking mighty fine! 

 

Rob had a prop seal failure and leak which grounded his MX2 for a couple of days but everything is back up and running with plenty of time.  With a little luck, it should be a strong show at AWAC for the US team!

 

July 27, and three more team members from Texas arrived – Craig, Pat and Brian.  Norm had to leave for Oshkosh.  With the exception of Jeff, the only team member missing is Alex Land – I understand he is training in Canada where the Sukhoi he will be flying is based.  Mike Steveson, the team manager,  arrived last Sunday and the US camp is now in full swing.  We spent part of the last afternoon discussing possible unknown figures for programs 2 and 3 at Basaltz Restaurant – one of the few good eating spots in Ephrata.

US Team Meeting

 

 

 

 

…Hector

7/29/08