Right-of-Passage

[N4843W]

A beautiful Sunday morning SW of Chicago. You watch your oldest son do his thorough walk-a-round of the REMOS Light Sport he has rented, about to take you up for the very first time, instead of the other way around. He explains how much fun it is to fly it with the doors off.

You observe him negotiating his departure from a busy towered airport with aplomb, then he flies you to a beautiful grass strip for some landings. He handles the strong crosswinds like a pro and does one altitude-losing slip much bigger than any you have ever done in your 2500 hours.

You think back on him as a little boy, recalling how he always loved airplanes as much as you did. You think of how he followed you around, wanting to do everything "Da" did ... and how he has grown up to do almost everything better than you and how absolutely wonderful that is.

He flies you back in the little bird you have fallen in love with after a single flight to the big airport and aviates, navigates and communicates as well as you did after a thousand hours. Just amazing. Later, flying home alone in your own plane, it you laugh as you think about how his 6-figure education would have paid for a Super-Commander conversion AND a state-of-the-art panel, but you know you would not trade this day for all of that and a Lear Jet.

Priceless, indeed.

 

[FS]

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I just want to know if the house in the picture is yours or his. If it's his then he should be getting something better than a Remos. If it's yours then you should go get the Lear anyway.

 

[janderson]

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very special, Scott. you should be proud, indeed.
maybe Conor needs to buy a little Hot Shot now?

Judi

 

[TKutchera]

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Very cool indeed Scott.

Tim

 

[Airotto370]

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Good stuff Scott...best of luck to Conor. Hopefully he'll have a better sense of color than Dad too!!

 

[gmiesch]

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Good stuff Scott...best of luck to Conor. Hopefully he'll have a better sense of color than Dad too!!

And hopefully, more common sense at the voting booth than Dad, as well!!

 

[N4843W]

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And hopefully, more common sense at the voting booth than Dad, as well!!

M I E S C H !!!!!!!!!!! He LIVES !!!!!!!!!!!! Whoa. Where the hell have you been, son. Nice to see your name pop up, even with the gun and the insult! We GLCOG folks are way overdue getting together. let's figure it out.

p.s. not long ago, at the challenge of me righter-than-Rush big brother, I wrote down every single election I could recall voting in on a state or national level since I was 18. It was like 20 congressmen, 14 Senators, 10 presidents, plus I counted governors which had been 10 as well. Total 54. The result: 27 D's and 27 R's. I knew it would be close, but not that close. So I have documented me independent chops. Of course, to my brother, you and Murphy, that makes me a Communist!

 

[wab003]

Right-of-Passage

Nah... You're just a free thinker. Considering the bozos both of the parties have thrown at the electorate from time to time, it's a reasonable approach. What bites (at least locally) is that you don't get to vote in the primaries. Unless you are willing to register w/ one side or the other (and then tolerate their endless fund raising phone calls), you become persona non grata at primary time. Aren't we the ones they are trying to persuade? ;-)