Smartt Field

I haven't been able to fly for a few weeks now. Conflicting schedules, bad weather, including more snow and the starter going out on "Hotel Alpha" has slowed me down, but I am flying again Wednesday and ready to get things going again. But, even though I have been really busy during this down time, I have been spending a lot of time on the FAA written test and Saturday afternoon on our way home from a fishing trip we stopped by Smartt Field in St. Charles County. Talk about a busy airport...this is the absolute opposite from Festus! We were there for about 90 minutes Saturday and probably watched 30 takeoffs and landings...as much as Festus gets in a whole weekend...and this was with high winds! I am happy that I am learning at Festus and not dealing with all of this traffic, but I plan to fly into this airport periodically. I had actually taken two lessons here back in September (failure #4 as I call it), but I wasn't comfortable with the long drive, the high volume of air traffic and the fact that the instructor there was very unconcerned about looking for it and finally it was a flying school that was truly there to make a profit...I didn't dare ask any questions, because I was "on the clock"! One really cool thing about Smartt Field is the Commemorative Air Force wing that is based there. They have a lot of nice old warbirds, especially the B-25 you see in the video. Teddy, especially loved our time at Smartt Field and couldn't believe the number of planes we saw flying. He is really enthusiastic about me getting my license and is really helping me to keep motivated during this small lull.