Alioth's Journal: Hurricane Ike Touches Me

It's with some sadness that I found out this morning that the aircraft I did my private training and instrument training in, and was *the* workhouse for the Bay Area Aero Club was destroyed by Hurricane Ike, which hit the Houston area on Saturday morning. The BAAC club house is also badly damaged.

The plane, a Cessna 172, N1219F, has been in the club since the early 1980s and has taught hundreds of pilots to fly and flown tens of thousands of hours as a good honest club aircraft. It may only be a thing, but it feels a little bit like the passing of an old friend.

It's funny how we get sentimental about machines.