I'll tell you what John, that hour and a half it took for us to take off, find each other again after my throttle dysfunction, and land, went by so fast, that I didnt even see my wife bring in my dinner haha!!  It was sitting on the chair behind me after we landed.  She was laughing her ass off though when I came running into the living room grinning ear to ear and telling her about our landing!
 
I had a blast, looking forward to the next one.  I appreciate your patience in typing me the directions and such, I will have a new headset soon I promise, then you will have to teach me team speak haha!

As for the SFO landing, I thought you knew I was living in this area, and was pretty stoked when you told me the flight plan haha, pretty crazy that you randomly picked it.  

I just flew in to SFO last weekend from New Orleans and we landed 28R and the captain came over the PA telling us not to worry about the aircraft that was so close to us on our left on approach to 28L, so I had the idea as you were making your approach to pull up next to you and see if I could do 28L wthout disrupting your landing.  

I kept an eye on you and had an escape plan if things went awry, but the cross wind was manageable and I wound up pulling ahead of you that last half mile or so, so there wasnt much concern. (not sure if you braked because of me but it didnt look like it)
Looked great from the spot plane view!

Again, thanks for breaking me in John!!!  Hope to fly with you again soon!  (you have no idea how thrilled I am over how much fun I had, such a nice break from the monotony)  

Semper Fi,
Justin

PS  those others that jumped on to the server while we were cruising, they were just puttering around in the skies after I finished dinner, so I figured I would buzz them with the Lear.  I held off in a pattern at a distance until they landed of course, as a courtesy, but as soon as they cleared runway I came in unannounced with a touch and go with a vertical climb out and got a good chuckle out of them haha.

Might get on again in a little while tonight (Friday the 5th, maybe about 9:30 PM Eastern)

best,

..................john

JBaymore wrote on Sep 5^th, 2008 at 11:39pm:


Had a terrific flight John, everything seemed to be working much better for me this time around and going much smoother.  I didn't need to search for you after a throttle failure, and I appreciate you interupting your flight plan to make the loop around KLAX while I fired up and took off!

Landing....sigh.   I was coming in high right behind you, but got cocky after you declared a go around and brought my plane down quick but nice and easy, no extreme G forces or altitude changes, was coming in a lot slower than you so I was able to bleed off the altitude without adverse effects.  

I was feeling good about myself and rather proud of my drop into the 28R approach but as I start to settle the plane on to the runway and wait for the signature tire chirp... SMACK.  Everything stopped and the green bar of death came across the top on my sim...forgot to drop my gear on approach   

But other than that I had a great time!  I promise I am getting my headset soon (within the next two weeks)   I know it's a pain in the rear typing in your pit!!!  And I will be a bit less complacent when it comes to landing haha!!  

Thanks for a great ride again!

Semper Fi
Justin

JBaymore wrote on Sep 6^th, 2008 at 9:11pm:


I took a ride tonight from Sault Ste Marie (pronounced Soo Saint Marie, located in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan) to Martha's Vineyard in real weather and it didn't show up too bad with Jeppeson.  Couple of hard gusts and some low lying cloud layer, that was it, I imagine that's not so accurate, can't wait for active sky!!!  I flew single player as it was a bit of a longer flight and figured that no one would jump in on a 3 hour flight plan!

Hopped on the server tonight for a bit, another dead night 

JBaymore wrote on Sep 8^th, 2008 at 10:30pm:


Bummer Mr. Baymore, but I understand completely as I watch my wife persue her doctorate and see all the work she has to turn in to her professors.

I have to work all this weekend, the reservists are coming in for their monthly drill so I have to be there to "moderate" (aka scream and yell and go tazmanian devil) haha.  

I wasn't just directing the post at you though, the server was dead period haha.  Hopefully we'll get off early and I can log some more hours, need to practice landing with my gear DOWN  

JBaymore wrote on Sep 13^th, 2008 at 8:01pm:

I'll be on depending on how addicted I get to Crysis.

After two straight weeks of work I finally get my 3 day weekend recovery, hopefully I'll see some of you online, haven't been on the server recently but I will start checking it tomorrow afternoon when I get home. 

Obviously I will have to spend some time with the wife as well since she spends a lot of her time waiting for me to get home each night, but I know she will let me get on the sim for a few hours each night as well.

I'll keep an eye on the server this weekend, hope to get a flight or two in!