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I've already flown a few folks, but this trip was the first time we
actually _went_ _somewhere_. Theresa and I headed up to the Virginia
Highlands Airport for her to hit Trail Days in Damascus, VA. I had
just made some changes to the autopilot (finally) and it was working
great on the trip. We had smooth sailing until the mountains and
then the winds over the ridges started giving us a rough ride (and
this wasn't surprising as we had about 40k of wind right on our
nose). But we handled it fine, took a slight detour to fly over
Damascus, then landed at VJI with no troubles.
Getting into JVI when we launched was not a certain thing, either,
as it was still reporting LIFR due to low clouds and mist. We
figured we'd either make it in, or divert to some place which was
VFR (and there were plenty of choices around, as I made sure of
that before we headed out). There were some "hazeballs" actually
in the pattern ... but it was genuinely more mist than cloud and
posed no problem.
As the day wore on, however, the clouds got darker .. and darker
.. and eventually (with all the visiting of vendors and shopping
done) we decided to bug out early. We had zero trouble getting out
over the first tall ridge line and from there on it was smooth
sailing. Well, actually, it was bumpy as all get-out, but we had
no worries about maybe getting into instrument conditions after
we got past the ridges.
It was my first real trip in the RV. Way cool. :)
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