Chazd's (Charles Dowdell's) News Burps

Images for this week. 1.) The lake shore with friends (without faces). 2.) Lake Lanier from the air. 3.) Georgia is general aviation Heaven; I have used crew cars before, but look at what it says on the door. This car is available to get over to a friend's place a few miles away in "Talking Rock" on gravel roads most certainly used by bootleggers years ago. It is almost too easy. (this is a Calvinist talking). Life is good, grand and humbling all at the same time.

It was an aviation weekend. I spent a bunch of money (Ahh.. I mean time.. Hpmt..) in the air. Here is one of the flights shown mapped out on the chart. Cory and I went down to a 2400 foot grass strip skirting around and under the class bravo airspace of the world's busiest airport. It was a bit of an oxymoron. Navigating some of the worlds most complex airspace to land and have lunch at a primitive airport with a nice country restaurant/aviation museum. Loads of fun. I had blinders on most the time for simulated instrument time. It was bumpy and hazy. It was also 108 degrees F out. Needless to say, climb performance and comfort were issues. It "aint" much cooler 5000 ft in the air. The hazy picture shows what "home" looks like. It is (LZU) Gwinnett County Airport from the South on about a 1.5 mile left base for runway 25, although you can't quite see the airport off to the left.) It is refreshing to get a "good" look at things when the blinders com...