Travels with FatCatAir

I got to fly a Velocity yesterday. A local owner that knows me from the builders email list had promised to give a ride some time when he was going flying. His plane is based at TTA in Sanford which is real close to where I live and close to my drive home.Last evening he gave me a call at work and said he was on his way to the airport if I wanted to go. I was out of here. It's a very nice airplane, an Oshkosh '97 award winner. This is a photo that I stole from Gary's website. He's actually looking to sell the airplane and get an RV-7.

It was a really nice evening, very smooth. This airplane is a 173 which is smaller than the one I'm building. It has an IO360 in it so it has 200HP. It has a fixed pitch prop. I'm not sure if it is climb prop or a cruise prop but it isn't really lacking in either category. When we took off we didn't have much trouble getting close to 2000fpm climb. Makes my tiger look like the climb challenged airplane it is.