2014 McGuire Safety Fly In

Wow, I was invited to participate in the 2014 McGuire Safety Fly In.  A great day of flying, safety, and adventure!  My brother, Dean, would join me today as were actually authorized to fly to and land at McGuire Air Force Base!  The morning was beautiful and Dean and I were so excited as we set out on prepping N926GZ for the days adventure!  Once airborne we contacted McGuire Approach and were i mediately approved for direct to downwind for runway 24.  Switching to tower we were directed to report base for 24!  Approved for landing, we turned final and descended down to gently land on 24.  The line of planes was exciting and interesting!  Wow!

Can you believe some one actually flew into McGuire with this!  It was just such a site!  It was just so exciting to see all these planes sitting on the Tarmac and seeing mine right there with them!

After a short welcome we were taken out to experience a KC10 sitting ready for our visit.  The long walk up put us at an altitude of its own!  Dean especially liked the boom operating chamber in the back!  The KC10 was awesome!

After the kC10, we were bused out to the tower for a view from the operations center!  The personnel was so friendly and knowledgeable!  We really enjoyed the visit here!  Then it was over to the C17!  Wow, what a plane!  This was just fantastic!  A huge bird that really is impressive!

It's amazing that this plane gets off the ground, but she does and she does it in style!  We were privileged to see one arrive at McGuire while coming out of the tower and it was just spectacular!  Sitting in the cockpit and seeing the heads up monitor screen which gives you all the information you need without looking down!  Wow!  Well, we weren't done yet!  We still had the chance to go to TRACON!  This was the highlight of the day for me!  I could spend the whole day sitting and listening to these guys work their magic.  What a day, so it was time to go back and wrap up the experience and have some lunch.  Since we had to file a flight plan to depart McGuire, that was pre done for us in the beginning of the day.  All that was necessary was to take the bus out to the planes and board up to depart!  The weather had turned a little sour, so we were going to depart in a little rain.  After a quick run up, we were cleared to Runway 24 and off we went.  Just a short ride home and South Jersey was in our sights!  What a simply fantastic day!