Packing Gear

pwagstaff

Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 11:05 PM ET

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The author faces complex packing requirements, needing to carry flight-related gear like suits and bags.
This essential equipment must remain with them due to the possibility of being called to fly early and recent spring training, adding to their luggage burden.

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I have to pack like I’m heading for a summer cottage in Maine, but I’m not! Things like flight suits and flight bags, which I don’t leave in California in case I get called early to fly (one can only hope) and there’s the week of spring training at McClellan which I finished a few weeks ago…so that stuff has to remain with me! One more thing to lug around!

pwagstaff

Patty Wagstaff is a six time member of the U.S. Aerobatic team and a three-time U.S. National Aerobatic champion. She flies for the California Department of Forestry during the summer months. In Pattyâs monthly column, Let It Roll, she shares observations and philosophical meanderings in and beyond the air show arena as a flight instructor, life adventurer and experience-seeker.