I had e-mailed Mike Seager a week or so back about scheduling transition trying and hadn't heard anything yet. So on the 21st I sent a follow up email and as luck would have it, he'd had a cancellation and had a slot available 4-24 to 4-26.

After a slapdash schedule shuffle, I found myself scampering out to Vernonia Oregon on the 23rd for 3 days of transition training in the RV7.

My insurance company required 5 hours in type before they would insure me for all risk, but since I'd never flown a tail wheel RV before, I scheduled 3 days/6 flights, with the hope of getting a bit more polish.

I got there mid-day Tuesday and had time to drive down to Aurora (pop. 700-ish) and tour the Vans factory, which was pretty cool.

Vernonia is about a hour drive north of Portland, and is so small it doesn't really have a chain hotel/motel. Mike Seager recommended a couple of B&B solutions, and the one I picked - Carpenter's guest house- had a theme room for aviators and a discount off the nightly rate for people doing transition training, sweet!

The way my schedule was set up, I was wrapping up my second flight around 1500, so on day 2 I drove out to the coast and spend a little time being a tourist in Seaside Oregon. Super cool little town and I'd like to take Kriya back for a long weekend.

We cancelled one flight due to weather, so I ended up with 7.4 hours total in the RV7. Holy cow, what a fun little airplane.