Sunday’s Flight
First off, Justin did all the work to get these photos from Sunday’s flight ready for me to post; so a huge, “Thank you, babe!” shout out goes to him for doing that. I seem to have an aversion to editing photos most of the time, since it reminds me of all the photo editing I need to do for our business. In other words, it feels like work. 
Since it’s 2:20 AM on Tuesday morning and I’ve yet to go to bed, this entry will probably get edited when I’ve had sleep to fill in all the details I’m too tired to remember to share right now.
In the meantime, enjoy what is probably my best aviation video so far — except for the cloud segment where I start jerking the camcorder around trying to find cool cloud formations to capture. I tend to videograph as though I’m taking a bunch of still photos, which is decidedly not the way to produce clean, fluid videography!
Some of our favorite aerial photos from the flight are attached to this entry, as well. The flight had no real destination — we took off from San Antonio International Airport (SAT), flew to Castroville Municipal Airport via an IFR flight plan (due to clouds and haze) and executed a low approach (I think the proper term is a missed approach, though that makes it sound like there was an issue that made Justin abort the landing, which isn’t the case. Instead, it means we had no plans on landing, but wanted to fly the pattern. Ack… I’ll have to let Justin explain this because I’m doing a piss poor job of it, I think!) After executing the missed approach at Castroville, we flew to Stinson Municipal Airport and performed a low approach there (about 1,200 feet off the runway; I’m sure Navy pilots would call that a “high altitude pass” compared to what they do on aircraft carriers!) Then we climbed out and headed back to SAT for a full-stop landing back at Wright Flyers where we rent our aircraft.
Aviation fuel is quite expensive right now, but let me tell you, flying is a heck of a lot more fun and more mentally stimulating than driving. I consider it a far better use of gas money, indeed!
EDITS from Justin to my mangling of aviation terminology:
A “go around†is the term used for a pilot aborting a landing (usually because he’s not configured properly or another aircraft or obstruction causes an issue).
A “missed approach†is the term used for an instrument approach that does not conclude with a landing. This is usually either a result of a) an intentional act – as was the case with us – since we were just doing the approaches for practice, or b) a botched approach or the discovery that at the lowest altitude allowed by the approach the runway environment is still not in sight (e.g. the clouds are too low).
Hope this helps!
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