Leg #2 (cont) - arrival in Jamestown (JMS)

Well clearly, air racing and blogging are not compatible for me...too tired at the ends of my days to sit and write.  But now it's time to tell this tale. We had solid IMC (weather - rain, low overcast, no thunderstorms) for this whole flight -from shortly after launch from Brookings, until VERY shortly before landing at Jamestown. The controller asked me to do a hold over our initial GPS approach fix - first time ever that I've been asked to hold. Charissa pitched in helping to manage the workload for setting up the unexpected hold request.  We were in a thick "soup" all the way to our minimum decision altitude. Charissa spotted the airport first, and we went in for the landing. It was a blowing, misty spray on the ground - early evening yet daylight.

We called out Classic 41 coming in for the landing, and the FBO manager was very happy to have an air racer make a stop. He was not expecting us, and it was great fun surprising another stop that we were arriving to spend the night in their town. We were greated with home-made chocolate chip cookies and a little LED fashlight.  We also got the keys to the crew car AND a free overnight in the hangar for 51-Charlie. The gentlemen at the FBO asked if we'd mind talking with a reporter the next morning before we launched on Leg #3. We told him that we'd be very happy to do so, and we asked him to be sure to top off our tanks for the next day.

We had a good sleep at the hotel, some breakfast, and started planning our next leg. The weather was beginning to look a bit more hospitable the next morning. It sounded like we'd still go in the soup, taking off out of JMS, but the skies would be clearing as we were flying SW towards Spearfish.
Based on the name alone, I was really excited to be flying into SPF. So we packed our bags and headed back out to the airport. Indeed, we got to speak with a reporter for the Jamestown Sun upon our arrival. Check out the article "Air Race Classic may have moved but competitors stop here anyway" (http://www.jamestownsun.com/event/article/id/138636/).

It was indeed 1st CLASS service and hospitality at Jamestown. Oh yeah, it was also kind of chilly up there.

Charissa & Minnetta (photo by Jamestown Sun) just before pulling 51-C out of the 1st Class Aviation hangar. Time to move on...leg # 3...heading for Spearfish SD.