Okay, today there was no messing around. The weather was perfect and we flew to Brandon without any difficulty. Our route took us northwest from St. Andrews to the northern tip of Oak Hammock Marsh. From there we flew a course west to Brandon where we stopped briefly for a drink (Pepsi – don’t get excited) and were delayed slightly while a C-130 Hercules practiced touch and go’s on our departure runway. Hey, I wasn’t going to argue with them and it did give me my first real experience with avoiding wake turbulence.
Our flight back took us over Gladstone, Delta Beach, and Stonewall. It was incredible to look down on the University of Manitoba’s Delta Marsh Field Station where I used to work some 14 years ago. Who would have thought? The entire trip took 2 h 49 m (including our stop in Brandon) and was capped off by one of my nicest landings yet. Hey, you gotta take credit for the good ones when you can!
Another interesting feature of the trip was listening to the call signs of military traffic along the way. The C-130 Hercules had the call sign Apollo. A military King Air (surveillance?) had the call sign Mustang. I’m also told that military flight instructors go by the call sign Shotgun. Maybe I should open a contest to blog readers to pick a super-cool, macho call sign for me – what do you think?
University of Manitoba Field Station (Delta Marsh)
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