Tailwheel Adventures!

Grand Ledge (GrandAir is the building/ ramp with the circle driveway)

The Bush Pilot Program has been officially put into motion at GrandAir. Several of us are learning tail wheel in our 1946 Taylorcraft and the course consists of finding small airstrips around Lansing, practicing takeoffs and landings at each place, and sometimes enjoying lunch.


These flights are a lot of fun because it is a challenge to find the strip, watch out for other traffic (since we don't have radios), land on short grass runways, and meet people who may be at that airport. One thing Pete and I are trying to get started is using it as a ministry by handing out food and bibles.

Eating lunch in Glowacki

Below you can see some of the airstrips we've been to. Grand Ledge is to the West (left) of Lansing and we're trying to hit all the open circle airports around. Other notable places are Ionia to the West, Eaton Rapids  to the South (where I circled over the town- yellow blob with flag on it, on my first commercial flight all whilst watching out for that big tower). The most Northern airstrip we went to is Glowacki where we had lunch (see pictures below).

Multiple adventures... to be expanded to the north and all around!

Here's an interesting tidbit. The inner circle around Lansing is their protected airspace which goes from the ground to 4900 ft. This means that you can not enter it with out their permission. Since we didn't have radios (ie couldn't get permission) we had to stay north of that circle.

1946 Taylorcraft

Fly with Christ,
Helen "Girl Friday"