Here’s a quick post to sustain the blog’s rolling. Got lucky to get a ‘fun ride’ on the Cougar lately. Here’s Butch sitting on the tractor, and another guys is hooking up a tow-bar to it. The plane is going to be bushed back inside a hangar.
We’ve just come back from an hour and twenty minute ride over the Rocky Mountains’ foothills, - somewhere between Springbank and Turner Valley.
I sat in the back, enjoyed a ride, and was taking tons of pictures. Though, soon I figured out, the low-wing, twin engine monoplane is not the best choice for the aerial shooting. But I was not about to complain at all. Just made a mental mark for the future 
The flight was a pure training mission, one of the Butch’s colleagues in the Mount Royal College was to ‘brush up’ his instrument skills, and they filed an IFR flight plan for Turner Valley, to spin a few holds over ‘TV’ beacon. Butch sat in the right seat, checking the guy. As Alex, our left-seat pilot, established ourselves in the hold, I looked around, and noticed this race track on the ground. Immediately, a thought flashed through my mind, “gee, that’s the thing! That’s why they always fly to TV to practice holds!”
(to be continued..)
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