Original Posted By: "Brian Kraut"
Since things are a bit slow here, I'll tell you all about a nice day over NW Wisc. 34 degrees at 1:00. I hadn't flown my A-65 Piet sivce August. I did the pre flight and gave it 2 shots of prime, pulled the prop thru 10 times, 1 more shot of prime, left the primer open, switch on and she fired up on the first pull. I had taken the seat cushion out to lower myself down a bit to get less wind in the face. After take off I stayed in the pattern for a couple of circuits to make sure things were running good and went out low level flying. One nice thing about the cold here is it makes some long flat places for landing. Theres nothing like flying over frozen lakes at 5-10 ft. Its good over farm fields too in the summer but this is a flat surface with no fences or furrows. I stayed out for about 1.5 hours and was not cold at all.Just thought Id shareDick N________________________________________________________________________________