First time friends flew with me...

This past Saturday I took 2 friends from the Ferrari club that have never flown with me before. We had another flight scheduled in December that got WX'd out. Greg has flown in small planes before and Ron has almost 1,000 jumps. Actually Ron was going to bring his parachute "just in case".

Good flight, wasn't the most perfect flying day. Bumpy and winds on final required some active hands and feet. Landings were all decent, friends didn't know better. No stall horn blaring kisses, but with the wind I don't care for that barely flying approach. GS was 90 kts. on way there and 145 kts. on way back. Did touch & go at Alliance and then into Northwest. Crosswinds not an issue at all, just slow going west.

Goal accomplished, they will fly with me again and they had fun. They were impressed with the glass cockpit and the information overload. Also commented they couldn't believe how busy I was keeping up with the plane, settings, radio calls, and etc. Guess I don't notice it now, but I can remember back to first 20 hours where I always felt like I was behind the plane.
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Just what I rent, Skyhawk SP's and Skylane Turbo w/G1000.