Mr. Thompson: You are Now Free to Fly About the Country!

I passed my Private Pilot FAA checkride this afternoon! My final landing at KAUS was behind a B-17 Bomber from WWII. ATC's conversation went like this, "Cessna 51A you are number two for landing behind a B-17 bomber do you have the traffic in sight?" My answer was, "Cessna 51A has the big bomber in sight".

Click here to listen to cockpit audio of my final approach.

More about yesterday's B-17 visit to Austin click here

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This particular B-17 has an interesting history that you can read about here.

-CT 4/5/2008