Hello all.

I have been involved all month with my preparations for the oral and flight check ride with the FAA.

I took Baby (my 82) on her most demanding cross country trip.  It was up I-10 from Tucson
off on the Loop 101 south west of Phoenix and on up to the north east side of the Valley of
the Sun to Scottsdale.  The FAA Flights Standards District Office is located near the Scottsdale
airport.  Baby did fine all the way both ways.  Conditions were high 80*s and moderate traffic
for the way up and 90*s and heavy rush hour traffic for the trip home.  I stayed in a hotel so
I would have a fresh start to the oral exam.

Everything held together and the kick from stepping on her tail was still there.  What a blast.
The speed limits in the city were 55-65 - everybody was moving between stopped and 85.
My break job held up and the TBIs did not give me any trouble. Driving was the best part of the
trip.

The oral was five and a half hours long and the flight on Friday was with the pre flight brief
lasted about two and a half hours.  The whole ordeal was the toughest test I have ever had.
I hope to never have to repeat that.  The results were all positive and I now hold a Certified
Flight Instructor certificate.  All other add-ons can be done locally with a designated examiner. 
This first one had to be done with the FAA.

I am very happy with how well Baby is running.  She has a great idle 600-800 rpm with AC on
or off and is running very well on regular gas.  By the way, there were lots of corvettes out
and about on this trip.  I got many waves and lots of lookers. 

A good week.  Thanks to all on the forum who has helped me get Baby purring.

All the Best from Tucson.

Keith

Double Congrats! First, on passing your test, and secondly on how well you have the Vette running! These cars are so much fun when they're running right! It's great you get to enjoy it as much as you do!

  Congratulations on both parts. Must of took a lot of hard work and studying to endure the questions they must have thrown at ya. Being able to fly always fascinated me but higher education just wasn't in the cards for me. So I'll just have to be content to do my flying in the Vette. Glad to hear that the Vette ran well on the trip also.

Thanks Barry and Jeff. 

Well,  I am looking forward to replacing the cruise control module.  I have the vacuum
blocked off and that was the last piece of the high idle problems. It has been replaced
once and did not fix the problem.  However, the original worked sometimes. So, I'm
thinking I got a bad rebuilt unit and I was early in learning about the car. Lots of other
problems and I just left that one hanging.

Flying is a lot of fun but, like anything, to do it well takes practice and a good teacher.
And, in this case....  $$$sss. 

Thanks again.

Keith

Congrats, Keith! Sounds like you had a good time in the car, and got something to take home wid ya, too. Good job on both!

btw...iffin we wuz ment to fly, we'd have wings instead of toes....

Well done Keith! I bet you are nice and relaxed now . Enjoy your low & high flying, have fun.

Good on you Keith

Ill add my congratulations as well Keith .  It's strange you posted this when you did.  I was thinking about you yesterday morning and trying to remember the last post you made. My intent was to send you a PM but never got around to it.

Congratulations.  The Scottsdale GATO was where I took all my paperwork to get my Citation ATP.  Oddly enough, I was living in Tucson (O-2's at D-M) at the time.  What are you flying?