Weather planning is essential to most of my flights but today we didn't plan to fly. Weather was still key as it was our annual Holiday party. The last few years I have been leading some airport social events and educational events but this year I had many distractions so I had really slipped.
A few weeks ago, my partners and I from our hangar construction project decided to throw a holiday party. The problem is you just don't get to pick your weather. You set the day and get what you get. I had been watching the forecasts and initially it looked like we would have a rainy day but in the end it was just cloudy with some occasional mist.
We had a nice turn out. Oddly you would think free food would make pilots appear spontaneously. The reality is that some people don't seem interested in airport BBQs. We had about 40 people which makes a nice size event, You get a chance to visit with most of the people and we had a good variety of sides and desserts provided by the attendees.
It started as a Hot Dog BBQ, I like fully dressed dogs so I made some grilled onions, Hot Kraut and Chili. There were also raw onions for the purists. As with most endeavors there was scope creep and we added grilled chicken teriyaki and pulled pork to the menu. My partner has a smoker and he started yesterday so that we could enjoy true BBQ today.
We also had a special presentation. One of our local pilots received the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award for 50 years of being a good pilot. Congratulations Jim!!!!!
When it was all done, we had eaten most of the pork, 36 hot Dogs and 6 pounds of chicken. We had a lot of leftover desserts, I called the tower and we dropped off a good bit of the extra. Tower should have a good sugar rush for the next few days.
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