Wednesday was an off day--Rusty and I played golf with another friend, Ron Galbraith, a retired Denver Center controller and Master Certified Flight Instructor. (There are only 600 MCFIs' in the country, versus something like 90,000 CFIs'.) He is also a 4 handicap golfer (that's very, very good) and was very patient with us.
Thursday started off with the Master Instructors' Breakfast, which I was lucky enough to attend as Rusty's (see "Prelude to Oshkosh) guest. The Acting FAA Administrator, Bobby Sturgell, talked and handed out some awards, as did Hal Shever, founder and CEO of Sporty's Pilot Shop and an Aviation Hall of Fame honoree. Sporty's is a major sponsor of EAA.
After that I checked out the retail exhibitors--four huge hangars full--wandered around the outdoor exhibitors, which are mostly aircraft manufacturers, and then went to Authors' Corner. There was more traffic today, and I sold a few books. An ATA pilot, Loren Madison, stopped by and reminded me of a trip we did together on the 1011 to Edinburgh and what a good time we had. He also caught me up on some people we knew in common at ATA's. So all in all that was a very successful hour and a quarter.
Thursday was also my wife's birthday and we had a great time that evening with both daughters here, Hilary and Nicole, Hilary's boyfriend Matt, and Rusty. Thursday was the best day so far.
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