Chapter 7

Holland Michigan has two airports ... ok ok ok ... one airport and a former WWII training base. The airfield (training base) is on the north side of the lake and it's typical. One paved runway and a lot of grass. The hangars are 1930's and the aircraft are private.

The airport is on the south side of town and it's a real CAA going concern. They have a flight school with one Cessna 150 trike. There's a Maytag commuter that flies to places that have big airplanes and like that. They Are OFFICIAL.

The field has amenities; a pay phone and an outside coke machine ... and they sell fuel fifty cents a gallon cheaper than the real airport. When there's an airshow ... it's at the field and not at the port. When Oshkosh has a doings ... the field gets the transits both to and from Wisconsin. The operators are amateurs, and everybody who has a private plane parks it there.

David and Grace AUSTIN have thousands of hours. David and Grace Anderson are passengers. The Twins are dead ... The Andersons are alive and own six airplanes they can't fly because they don't have licenses. No matter how many aircraft they own they still have hoops to jump through because the Andersons have never taken flight school, instruction, soloed or hooped. It's already worse than last year but not as bad as it's going to get. Next year the CAA becomes the FAA and Federal assholes take over the flying world. But David doesn't know that ... nobody knows that ... well ... the Fed Alphabet Soup knows but it ain't official ... yet.