Monday, August 2, 2010

greetings from Poland

So far , very good ! Me, Robbie Gibbs and Ben Freelove arrived Saturday evening with team manager Mike stevson. we are staying at the Marriott Warsaw - very nice place
We met our Polish connection and secured our plane Sunday morning , a very nice 2006 Extra 300/L
this plane is very good , only 300 Hrs TT and it is set up very well. We flew all day Sunday ...it is crazy , the guy that owns the plane bascially pitched us the keys and said "have fun " ..we literally come and go as we please , very unusual for rental planes.. we could not be more fortunate

There was one hurdle we had to cross - Polish medical and license - bascially , to fly in Poland you need a Polish license ..so we contacted Kelly adams ( he arrived Sunday night ) and all of us went to the local medical office to get our physicals ---JEEZ , you woulda thought we were trying out for the Polish Space program ---unbelievable the things we did --ever see the movie " The Right Stuff " ---well, you get the idea ...It was actually alot of fun , we were all cracking up at the crazy things we did --like blow into a tube and draw a character with our breath on this computer ---we had no idea what we were doing, but luckily we all passed !

Today ( Tuesday ) we fly all day in Warsaw , then join the rest of the team in Radom this evening - our first pratcice slot in the box is set for WED AM

wish us luck

Spanky

4 comments:

  1. Good luck! Great about the plane. We're rootin' for 'ya!

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  2. Good luck to the team. A shout out to Drs. Noll and Beyer!
    MJourney from SMH

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  3. Good Luck guys... Do work!

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  4. James L Schulte, Atlantic AviationAugust 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM

    Hi Robbbie!
    This is Jim your fueler at Atlantic Aviation KDVT-I wish I was part of the pit crew this week to help out! Good Luck! Be safe and bring home top three spots and team!!
    Good Luck Team!!!!!

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