Nearly done

It looks like 70L will be ready for flight on Monday. :-)

I'm planning on heading back to Peoria over the weekend. Once Mike gives me the good word, I'll take it up and flight it above the airport for about an hour. After that, I'll land and let him take a good, hard look at it to make sure everything is looking ok. When he's satisfied, I'll be good to go for the flight home.

If everything goes like clockwork, I could be flying home as early as Monday afternoon. Depending on the winds, I'll need to stop either two or three times for fuel. I may stop over the border in Michigan, just to claim the state, but if the time is at all tight I'll fly a more direct route.

If I leave Peoria by noon and the winds are at all favorable, I might well be able to reach Glens Falls before nightfall. If it's going to be close -- within an hour or so of dusk -- I'll probably just continue on and do a night landing at Glens Falls. In that event, I'll adjust my route of flight so that any night flying is over the NY Thruway as far as Albany and then over the Northway (I87) up to Glens Falls. Pilots have long joked about IFR flying ("I follow roads") but it's not a bad strategy for single-engine operations at night.