Last flying day before the big avionics upgrade

We're having all the original avionics (radios) removed from the "new" airplane starting today. So, Sunday was our last flying day for a couple of weeks.....booo,hooo.

We made it count, though! We flew over to Siler City to pick up some fuel - I snapped this photo of the newly painted compass rose. I was at the controls and just held the camera up and took the photo....now I wish we were a little lower to the ground. Oh, well - next time around I'll get a closer shot! Before, you couldn't even see it from the air - it's certainly brighter now after all that work!


We flew two Mooney's down to New Bern for a nice lunch! Dick/Lindy and Randy joined us in their nearly identical Mooney. (Ours is on the right, can't ya tell??)


We had lunch on the deck at Christoph's on the Water about a mile from the airport. Beautiful setting - food was okay. View from my chair.....


Back in the air - to Asheboro to drop off our Mooney at Air Associates for the radio work. Isn't the fall color pretty?



Here are the "before" shots -


It will be nice to have some radios we can trust! More later!