Summer is here and the time is right to make some holes in the sky!
With the 8 year old set on a holding pattern for school and the two soccer teams and the 4 year old’s sight set on the sky, it was time to gear up and head for the airport!
This was the 4 year old’s first time in the SR20 since my husband’s recent checkout on this really awesome plane. The Cirrus SR20 & SR22 are amazing aircraft’s with the most advanced technology.
It’s a long way from the Archer and even the Bonanza (which I have fond memories of flying round-trip with our 3 month old baby from Long Island to Orlando). The Cirrus also has air-conditioning! What a bonus on a hot summer day! Oh do I remember sweating buckets during a ground run up in a Cherokee at Tamiami Airport in Miami during a summer vacation in Florida many moons ago.
Here are the Little Pilots getting a hand on lesson from Dad on the pre-flight checklist. Excited to help out and learn a thing or two! 
Of course flying makes you hungry so we decided to make a quick jaunt from FRG to XCO (Farmingdale to Waterbury Oxford in CT.) and enjoy a meal at the 121 Restaurant that is located right off the runway at XCO! If you are flying the Northeast, you really must fly by! Check them out at 121group.com. My kids loved the delicious food and really cool decor. In fact they are now asking for blue runway lights in their room just like the restaurant has around the dining area and bar! Once dinner was done we headed back home and of course just as flying makes pilots hungry it can really be the best sleep that a 4 year old can experience with the hum of the engine and a headset nuzzled around his little face! 