Saturday morning I did five quick flights to take up Christian, Sarah and Benjamin (my sister Natalie’s wonderful children), my Mom, and Odile Rablat, who was stuck in Yarmouth for the day because the weather forecasts for the Bay of Fundy were not that good.

RV Grin from Christian.


 

Sarah


 

Ben - very happy to have experienced a loop and a roll. He has dreams of being a fighter pilot, and this flight further solidified his dream.


 

Mom, who also wanted a loop and roll.


 

Odile, who greatly enjoyed the flight also. She reciprocated by giving Dad and I flights in her ultralight on Sunday morning, before Odile and I departed Yarmouth. I greatly appreciated the experience - superb visibility, but a huge amount of wind and noise. I was happy to later see via her SPOT Tracker that Odile made it to Port Hawkesbury in Cape Breton. Congratulations Odile.


 

I took more pictures today, but stupidly left the camera in the aircraft at Smiths Falls. I’m not going to spend an hour and a half to drive there and back just to rescue the camera. It’ll have to wait until next time I’m at the airport. Oh well.

The RV-8 is definitely the preferred way to get between Ottawa and Yarmouth. It took 2:30 to fly down, and 3:11 to come home. That sure beats the two day drive, or airlines to Halifax + rental car, or the train to Halifax + rental car.