Today I was back in the cockpit for a solo flight to Brandon. I guess my instructor wanted me to do this quickly before I forgot how to get there! Again, it was an incredible experience. My route took me northwest from St. Andrews to the northern tip of Oak Hammock Marsh and then southwest to Brandon. After a 30 minute fuel stop I left Brandon northeast for Gladstone and then due east to Delta Beach, Stonewall and St. Andrews. It took 1 hour 15 m to get there and 1 hour 20 m to get back, covering a total of 237 nm. I still amazed that they let me do this…
I had planned on making the trip at 4500 ft out and 3500 ft back, but my transponder (which provides altitude and other information to Winnipeg Terminal Control) wasn’t being picked up properly. Terminal was apparently too busy with traffic to grant me an exemption, so it was back down to 2500 ft with the rest of the great unwashed masses. Sigh. The flight took longer, but on the plus side, another student I ran into in Brandon had just made the trip at 4500 ft and had a heck of a time navigating through the haze of stubble fires. I didn’t have that problem at 2500 ft, but would you believe that you can still smell hog manure at that altitude…
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