So a friend needed to go to Olney, Illinois….I flew him there.

The view of the farm fields changed drastically as we went south:

From mostly green and unharvested up north:

to fully harvested soybean and wheat and corn fields shorn as bare as a porn starlet’s privates. 

14.500 feet VFR with Flight Following (not really worth it to go higher). For once, Chicago approach was nice, polite, and helpful when I called them for flight following. Almost too nice. Strange for them. They handed us off to Champaign approach and then Hulman approach who took us to Olney.

The flight was smooth and we stopped on the way back in Champaign, IL to get a crew-car and some really good chinese food .

2.4 hours total. I did the RNAV 11 at KOLY and the RNAV 04 into KCMI as practice approaches just for fun, but the entire flight was VFR as it could be  Severe Clear and all that.

Got flight following on the way back from the clearance people at KCMI, who watched us until we got to Chicago, wo were back to their usual irascible personalities.

So 2.4 and 3 day landings. Landings were good, but not perfect. I gotta work on those some.  Lately they have been….firm.