Renee's sister Karla was in town this weekend to visit her boyfriend, Devin, who is flight training at Randolph AFB in San Antonio for the next couple of months. Saturday afternoon Scott gave them a quick tour of the hangar and then we headed to Llano for some Cooper's BBQ!
Touring one of the G450s.
From there we drove to New Braunfels. Llano is about a 45 minute flight from there, and would be a little over two hours driving. Devin helping Scott pre-flight.
Taking off from New Braunfels.
Karla and Renee in the back seat.
Devin at the controls briefly after takeoff.
Flying low over a river as we approached Llano at sunset.
A creative sunset shot by Renee.
Landing at Llano.
When we landed, the airport manager came out in a golf cart and told us to be sure to back taxi the runway before taking off later because they had just fenced in the airport with deer fences, and although they had shot nine (!) deer earlier that day, there were still a few to watch out for.
We rode to Cooper's with another group of four who had flown in from Killeen (about a 1/2 hour flight away, where Fort Hood is located), also for BBQ. The pilot of the group was an extremely enthusiastic young gentleman named Franklin. Franklin has been flying about four years and is currently working on his instrument rating. He said he loves flying so much, he'll take a ten-minute flight to the next town over from Killeen just to get a hamburger! Renee wanted to get his picture for the purposes of this blog, but no moment presented itself where that wouldn't have been considered weird. So you'll have to take our word for it, but his face absolutely LIT UP when he talked about flying, he was a very happy and enthusiastic individual. This is us waiting in line outside the BBQ pits at Cooper's, Franklin was nice enough to take the picture.
1 comment:
Looks like you had fun with Karla and Devin. Can't beat good BBQ!
JS
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