April 8, 2022 - Flying to Georgetown for Lunch

Chuck B. and I had intended to fly down to Sun 'N Fun starting Thursday morning.  On the way, we would do some fun-fly on the coast, and stay overnight in southern Georgia.  Fly into Lakeland Friday morning.  That would give us two full days at the show.  Depart Sunday.  Do some more fun fly in southern Florida before arriving home Tuesday afternoon.

Early in the week, we realized weather was going to be an issue.  We decided to go a day early, on Wednesday, weather permitting.  It didn't.  We crossed our fingers that the Thursdays forecast would be wrong.  But it wasn't.  It was worse.  In fact, the weather Thursday was on the short list of worst flying day weather I have ever seen.  The entire Mid-Atlantic area down to Raleigh-Durham wasn't just IFR, it was LOW IFR.   200 foot ceilings.  We didn't want to fly down Friday, just for one full day of SNF, so we cancelled the flight.

Of course, today, Friday, we had beautiful weather all day.  (If only we had had today's weather yesterday!)  But as we used to say in the Navy, those are the breaks of Naval Air.

So on Friday, Chuck and I started the days flight activites by flying over to Easton Airport.  There we met Mugsy.  Soon the three of us were winging our way east to Cape May Airport for lunch.  Alas, we had gotten a late start.  Around 2:30PM, we were on final to runway 28 when we realized the airport restaurant closed at 2PM.  What to do?  We headed southwest, back across the Delaware Bay to Georgetown Airport -- now called Delaware Coastal, I guess -- where we had confirmed the airport restarant -- Arenas -- was open.

Below, Mugsy in the lead approaches Cape Henlopen.  It was a beautiful flying day, with smooth air and outstanding visibility.