Madison Site-Seeing
Tuesday it was a clear day and I talked Spencer into going for a hop around Madison. This time we had N70739, my favorite 152 at Morey that has been plagued with microphone issues lately. But today the switch was working perfectly, which was good because I wanted to fly over Madison.
As we were taxiing one of the resident Medflight helicoptors took off right in front of us.
We took off on 10 and headed south. We got up to 2000 feet then headed back toward Morey. I called up ATIS, then Madison West Approach and requested eastbound to Blackhawk. I didn’t want to land there but it would put us on a nice vector over Madison. I was approaching Morey at 2000 and ATC asked me if I could climb to 2500. I had never heard this request before, but I was expecting it because I was nearing Morey’s traffic pattern. I said I would and started climbing. Shortly I was asked to turn to a heading of 090, which I did while still climbing. After a few minutes I was asked to tune to Madison East Approach.
By now we were flying just north of downtown, and Spencer snapped some great pictures. We continued east and Approach said there was nothing in our way and cut us back to VFR. I thought this interesting, because we were still at 2500 and well within the Class C shelf.
We overflew Blackhawk and turned south, then proceeded leasurely around the southern part of Madison outside their Class C at about 2000, then turned north past the SW towers and entered the pattern at Morey on a midfield crosswind.
N70739 flew wonderfully – I really like the feel of this plane compared to “Paris”. I did all my early training in it, and it definitely feels like it wants to fly.
Can’t wait to get back up again. Just have to avoid running out of money…