KAPA. Day 03.

Today was a day of workshops, receptions, meeting amazing women. Met a WASP Bee Haydu. Realized that a sweet lady who gave us a ride the other day is Emily Howell Warner, the first female air transport pilot for a modern, jet-equipped airline. Consulted again on loading our Mooney with a former CEO of Mooney Airplane Corp Gretchen Jahn. Spent an afternoon with a fellow racer Gene Nora Jessen and then ended up at her book signing event. Watched a documentary about Pancho Barnes and fell in love with her.




And in the evening – planning, planning, planning. The reality starts to set in. WE ARE DOING IT!!!!!!!!



Divided the duties for the race:

Jessica – flying, signing fuel slips
Athina – radio communications, instruments, signing staying-overnight-slips, crew accommodations
Irene – navigation, using winds aloft to our advantage, timing flybys and scoring calculations

This is an unbelievable learning experience. Lots of “firsts.” Class C airspace. Private airports with controlled airspace around them. Leaning at take-off. Having true course differ from magnetic course by 11°. Two-mile-long runways. Lenticular clouds. Flying so low you are almost scraping the ground and having your altimeter read 6500. Our heads are spinning... but if everything seems under control, you are just not going fast enough, right?!