Posted for Sky2high@aol.com:

In a message dated 1/25/2004 6:35:02 PM Central Standard Time,  VTAILJEFF@aol.com writes:

From the responses of the  individuals who attended I believe the training was top  notch.
Jeff, et al, naysayers even, ...
T'was top notch.  Everyone has much to learn and be "refreshed" on  with respect to our unique Lancairs - whether they be 320s, IV-Ps, Columbias or  otherwise configured.  When was the last time you practiced an instrument  approach at night, with no hydraulics?  How about an engine out over  strange, almost sea level, territory (true x-cntry, 1000 mi from home)? Huh?  Huh? ....
When was the last time you thought about our special airplanes in adverse  weather and the consequences?  This ain't no  Cessna/Piper/Beech/Mooney!  Pay attention, your insurance company  is! Besides all that serious stuff, it can be fun if you find the right folks  to fly close by or go to dinner in suspicious locations or just seek out  cheap, but dangerous, gas.  Also, is 8 hours from bottle to thottle  measured from the first toast or from the closer?
See the few pix attached...
Scott Krueger  AKA Grayhawk
Sky2high@aol.com
II-P N92EX IO320 Aurora, IL  (KARR)

"...as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know  we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are  some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we  don't know we don't know." D. Rumsfeld

[ Scott's photos in Scott's gallery... http://w1.lancair.net/pix/scott -Rob ]