Last Flight From TKI Maybe?

I finally got the planets to align and had a voodoo woman come out and scare away the clouds so I could take one last flight before TKI closes down for 30 days. It is all part of a continuing airport improvement that is supposed to eventually include a new parallel runway. For now they are resurfacing the runway which is supposed to take about 30 days.

We went back to doing pattern work as I needed to fly to get the cobwebs out. I always seem to be the one to get the strange instructions from the tower. While on final, I get a request from the tower to do a 360 and then re-join the pattern on final. We had a jet on the runway that needed to do a 180 because of all of the taxiway closures. The next takeoff I had to make right traffic because of a KingAir that wanted to get into the pattern (it is a very fast plane and I was in a slow plane).


It took me a while to get back into the swing of things but I did. I really liked the soft field landings because they were a lot smoother, not like flying a falling boulder.

All in all, I had fun and only used .8 tach hours.

I took a couple of pictures today. It was be the last time I was able to fly N737TY. When we make our move to Sherman it is going in for a new engine, windshield and lots of other work while it is down.
Our new flight line since they want to double the capacity of the north ramp. No more pulling in and turning. We now have to push back our planes by hand.
Update
When I got home last night, I received an email that our move is now going to take place on Oct 28. This means that I may be able to fly 1 more time from TKI. I only hope 7TY is available.

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