A few firsts, and a bucket list item realized

[oelbrenner]

First Airplane

First Mooney ( 1982 M20J )

First big trip across the USA

Special shoutouts:

@jgarrison you are the man.. thank you for helping me thru everything.

@Lrn2Fly for teaching me the all the "mooney things" on the long ride home, you sir are a fantastic instructor. Especially reading back 30.07 altimeter setting with a "British Spy" accent, I will do that for the rest of my life   

Met some great people along the way, notably Nik at Nik's aircraft on the field at KRHV ( aka Flying S Aviation ) and ran into @larryb on the taxiway, nice to have met you !

Stopped at Mojave KMHV for fuel, and was in the traffic pattern with Proteus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_Proteus 

That was pretty cool.

All the amazing views out west

Parked next to a T6 Texan at KAEG

Met some fine folks in Clinton Oklahoma KCLK

Great BBQ near KOLV

Met some of the salty aviators that hang out at KRHP ( my summer airport )

and all the friends I have not yet made at KSPG ( my winter airport )

 

Happy to be part of this community !

[MooneyMitch]

1 hour ago, oelbrenner said:

First Airplane

First Mooney ( 1982 M20J )

First big trip across the USA

Special shoutouts:

@jgarrison you are the man.. thank you for helping me thru everything.

@Lrn2Fly for teaching me the all the "mooney things" on the long ride home, you sir are a fantastic instructor. Especially reading back 30.07 altimeter setting with a "British Spy" accent, I will do that for the rest of my life   

Met some great people along the way, notably Nik at Nik's aircraft on the field at KRHV ( aka Flying S Aviation ) and ran into @larryb on the taxiway, nice to have met you !

Stopped at Mojave KMHV for fuel, and was in the traffic pattern with Proteus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_Proteus 

That was pretty cool.

All the amazing views out west

Parked next to a T6 Texan at KAEG

Met some fine folks in Clinton Oklahoma KCLK

Great BBQ near KOLV

Met some of the salty aviators that hang out at KRHP ( my summer airport )

and all the friends I have not yet made at KSPG ( my winter airport )

 

Happy to be part of this community !

....... and that’s what it’s all about .......

[Sixstring2k]

Congratulations and hope for many more first to follow, hope to join the club soon.  

[carusoam]

Wow!

Way to go Oel!

Way to check all the right boxes!

Congrats on achieving all the goals.

Now it’s time to set up a few more….   

Best regards,

-a-

[Hank]

Hey, @oelbrenner! You just learned that this big country is sometimes pretty small. So is the world . . . My grandparents retired to Blairsville, GA, shopping and going to church in Andrew's, NC.