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What a week-end!
Ground crew & pilots outside
restaurant at Everglades City
A mix of 13 planes, perfect weather and spectacular
views followed by hangar flying, good food, cold beer, and games of pool
before another day of flying in equally good weather…. Does life get any
better?
For many of the group, the
fly-out to
Everglades
City
represented five of their most enjoyable flying hours logged. Coming across
the everglades and seeing other
LAFA
planes in virtually every direction flying above the swamp background was a
sight to behold. That alone would have made for a great week-end, but then
came Saturday evening’s flight to
Marco
Island
complete with close-up Dolphin sightings, thousands of birds, islands of
every shape and size and sand banks in the middle of the water that almost
looked “landable”.
Everybody who made it to Everglades City returned safely wearing large
smiles, and that included two powered parachutes!
The main players were the ground crew that made everything possible, and to
whom we all owe a warm “thank you!” - They were:
Ron,
Ida, Claire, Jackie, Anne, Adolfo, Vern and Skeeter.
Special thanks also go to John, Bob and Ron for
organizing the event, and to Donald for making space available for us in his
"rolling hangar".
Thank you guys!
The pilots and crew were:
Mike (Rans);
Rich & Rickie (Champ);
Jesus (Mini Max);
Tim (Mini Max);
Andy (Drifter);
Pedro (Slipstream);
Donald & Mike (Powered Parachute);
Jeff & his Wife (Powered Parachute);
Bob (Kolb);
John &
Doris
(Quicksilver); Peter & Felipe (Kolb);
Ron Russell (Challenger);
Barry (Kolb).
Most of the the photos that
follow were taken by Felipe from Peter's Kolb Mk. III and Andy's Drifter
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