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Whooo! This was about time!
*cracks her knuckles and wiggles her fingers*
This is a very very overdue story! It's been waiting to get written from about October 2010 on already. As you may remember, the last story in the Minty Mouse series was "The talk... and then some", in which Minty invited her new friends Dusty and Dusty's daughter Fifi to spend the next weekend with her, going for a little flight in Minty's plane on Saturday and hang out on Sunday. I was planning on writing that story in two parts, just as I did for the Weekend Get-together in the Mara & Celeste story series. But then I got caught up in 2010's NaNoWriMo challenge, which meant that for the entire month of November, I didn't do any writing on any of my running story series, and after that, several factors kept me away from writing as well.
That weekend story for Minty, Dusty and Fifi had to be written, though! And for the past two weeks, that is exactly what I have been doing. And I finally got the first part of the story finished, whoo!
Now, you will get a description here that is almost a story in itself, because there is a lot to say about this story.
For one, you notice I did not upload it as a plain text file so you can read it right on the page here, but as an .rtf file. That's because this story is mighty long! 31 pages and two paragraphs, and almost 18,000 words! So in order to read it, you will have to download it and open it in your Word or other text editor program. And you'll need an hour or two to spare.
For another, this story took me literally over a week of research. There is TONS of information in it, mostly about Minty's little Beechcraft and how to fly it. Of course Minty is a seasoned pilot, she flies her plane like anyone else drives a car, but that means I had to make it indeed seem as if it all was routine for her and she knows everything there is to know as she explains everything to Fifi. Now, I have never even been near a plane, let alone inside one, so even let alone flown one. Yet still I had to make it seem as if I know all about it since Minty is supposed to know all about it, so I have spent days and days researching specifics of the Beechcraft C23 Sundowner, and how to fly small single-engine planes in general. I even downloaded and installed a flight simulator program to give me a feel for it.
Nevertheless, I am certain that I will have made oodles of mistakes in this story. So I do ask of everyone who knows a thing or two about flying small airplanes, in specific
vixyyfox and 
marmelmm, to please tell me where I did something wrong and how it should actually be; I want to know! Critique me on this story, people, I know I did things wrong, and I want to know what I did wrong so I can fix it!
Another thing I did; when we first met Minty, we saw her moving into a new house in the fictional town of Bianco, Oregon, a town I made up myself and which I placed in between the existing towns of Willamina, OR and McMinnville, OR. Through the use of Google Earth, which I also used for research for this story, I found there are in fact a few small towns along the line where I placed Bianco, so I have decided to put Minty not in a fictional town, but in an actually existing town, that being Amity, OR. There is in fact a 2nd Street there, although it's West 2nd Street, so Minty's address will furthermore stay the same; 1040 West 2nd Street, only now in Amity, OR instead of Bianco, OR.
I mentioned Google Earth. What a wonderful research tool for the kind of stories I write! In the beginning of this story, it says Minty emailed Dusty a route description of how to get from her address in Willamina to the small airfield outside Silverton, and Fifi reads off all the steps of the description. That description is absolutely 100% accurate; it's the description I got myself when plotting the route from Dusty's address to Silverton Airfield in Google Earth. Furthermore; near the end of the story Minty pulls out an aviation chart to point out a number of small airfields in the vicinity to Fifi. Those are all actually there as well; I have seen them all and taken their names from what I saw on Google Earth. My stories are certainly going to be a lot more geographically accurate, yay! (The only thing not accurate in my stories of Minty is that in my stories, Silverton Airfield is in use as a semi-private airfield, while in reality, it hasn't been in use since about 2008 anymore)
Finally; yes, this very very long story is just for the Saturday of the weekend Dusty and Fifi will be spending with Minty. There will be a story for the Sunday as well, where they'll hang out at Minty's house, and there will be sexual interaction between the three of them. I will be writing that story, but whether I'll upload it here, I don't know yet. Considering Fifi's age, you can probably understand why.
Anyway! I've been feeling pretty sick the past few days, so I'll likely hop back into bed very shortly, but at least I finally got this story finished! Wheee! I hope you will all enjoy the long read, and again, those of you who know how to fly a small plane, critique me on the things I undoubtedly did wrong in this story!
And of course:
Minty Mouse is © me
Dusty Nevada is © me
Fifi Nevada is © me
*cracks her knuckles and wiggles her fingers*
This is a very very overdue story! It's been waiting to get written from about October 2010 on already. As you may remember, the last story in the Minty Mouse series was "The talk... and then some", in which Minty invited her new friends Dusty and Dusty's daughter Fifi to spend the next weekend with her, going for a little flight in Minty's plane on Saturday and hang out on Sunday. I was planning on writing that story in two parts, just as I did for the Weekend Get-together in the Mara & Celeste story series. But then I got caught up in 2010's NaNoWriMo challenge, which meant that for the entire month of November, I didn't do any writing on any of my running story series, and after that, several factors kept me away from writing as well.
That weekend story for Minty, Dusty and Fifi had to be written, though! And for the past two weeks, that is exactly what I have been doing. And I finally got the first part of the story finished, whoo!
Now, you will get a description here that is almost a story in itself, because there is a lot to say about this story.
For one, you notice I did not upload it as a plain text file so you can read it right on the page here, but as an .rtf file. That's because this story is mighty long! 31 pages and two paragraphs, and almost 18,000 words! So in order to read it, you will have to download it and open it in your Word or other text editor program. And you'll need an hour or two to spare.
For another, this story took me literally over a week of research. There is TONS of information in it, mostly about Minty's little Beechcraft and how to fly it. Of course Minty is a seasoned pilot, she flies her plane like anyone else drives a car, but that means I had to make it indeed seem as if it all was routine for her and she knows everything there is to know as she explains everything to Fifi. Now, I have never even been near a plane, let alone inside one, so even let alone flown one. Yet still I had to make it seem as if I know all about it since Minty is supposed to know all about it, so I have spent days and days researching specifics of the Beechcraft C23 Sundowner, and how to fly small single-engine planes in general. I even downloaded and installed a flight simulator program to give me a feel for it.
Nevertheless, I am certain that I will have made oodles of mistakes in this story. So I do ask of everyone who knows a thing or two about flying small airplanes, in specific
vixyyfox and 
marmelmm, to please tell me where I did something wrong and how it should actually be; I want to know! Critique me on this story, people, I know I did things wrong, and I want to know what I did wrong so I can fix it!Another thing I did; when we first met Minty, we saw her moving into a new house in the fictional town of Bianco, Oregon, a town I made up myself and which I placed in between the existing towns of Willamina, OR and McMinnville, OR. Through the use of Google Earth, which I also used for research for this story, I found there are in fact a few small towns along the line where I placed Bianco, so I have decided to put Minty not in a fictional town, but in an actually existing town, that being Amity, OR. There is in fact a 2nd Street there, although it's West 2nd Street, so Minty's address will furthermore stay the same; 1040 West 2nd Street, only now in Amity, OR instead of Bianco, OR.
I mentioned Google Earth. What a wonderful research tool for the kind of stories I write! In the beginning of this story, it says Minty emailed Dusty a route description of how to get from her address in Willamina to the small airfield outside Silverton, and Fifi reads off all the steps of the description. That description is absolutely 100% accurate; it's the description I got myself when plotting the route from Dusty's address to Silverton Airfield in Google Earth. Furthermore; near the end of the story Minty pulls out an aviation chart to point out a number of small airfields in the vicinity to Fifi. Those are all actually there as well; I have seen them all and taken their names from what I saw on Google Earth. My stories are certainly going to be a lot more geographically accurate, yay! (The only thing not accurate in my stories of Minty is that in my stories, Silverton Airfield is in use as a semi-private airfield, while in reality, it hasn't been in use since about 2008 anymore)
Finally; yes, this very very long story is just for the Saturday of the weekend Dusty and Fifi will be spending with Minty. There will be a story for the Sunday as well, where they'll hang out at Minty's house, and there will be sexual interaction between the three of them. I will be writing that story, but whether I'll upload it here, I don't know yet. Considering Fifi's age, you can probably understand why.
Anyway! I've been feeling pretty sick the past few days, so I'll likely hop back into bed very shortly, but at least I finally got this story finished! Wheee! I hope you will all enjoy the long read, and again, those of you who know how to fly a small plane, critique me on the things I undoubtedly did wrong in this story!
And of course:
Minty Mouse is © me
Dusty Nevada is © me
Fifi Nevada is © me
Category Story / General Furry Art
Species Mammal (Other)
Size 120 x 120px
File Size 159.3 kB
Hee! Nice story! Lessee:
-Should be 'Ercoupe' with an e at the end.
Cleaning which valves? Not the intake/exhaust; that's a major overhaul. Minty could be checking the engine breather tube and the carburetor heat, though.
The control/gauge descriptions are quite good. I'd break the paragraphs up a bit, make them shorter.
-"November Mouse" might get one a mild reprimand from a humorless tower operator.
-As a rule, unpaved airports tend not to have control towers; rather, they use Unicom (i.e. a common frequency all the pilots use to announce their intentions). Frixample, when I was flying out of Whiteman Airpark in the San Fernando Valley, I'd typically say "Whiteman, Ercoupe Two-Seven Hotel downwind for runway One Two" (which would mean that I was flying opposite the runway in an imaginary rectangle". This would alert the other pilots at Whiteman what I was up to. I used Unicom to prevent a wreck once; a Navion (named the "Spirit of Big Louis" after its owner) was coming in with one wheel still up and I called him on Unicom and told him to abort the landing. He got the wheel down and landed normally. I kidded him about it after that. "You sure you got your wheels down, Louie?"
-Also, once one has announced oneself, it's just "Ercoupe Two Seven Hotel" instead of "Ercoupe Three Six Two Seven Hotel".
-Two magnetos.
-Always shout "CLEAR!" from the open window/door/canopy before starting the engine.
-Again, it'd be "Beech Eight Six Eight" once the initial contact is made.
-A multi-engine licence doesn't mean one is automatically eligible to fly every multi-engine plane out there. Minty would require some instruction and check flights before taking command of a DC-2.
I-f the airport has radar, it probably has transponder service. You may want to have the tower ask Minty to "Squawk" a four digit number.
-Altitude regulations: See http://www.risingup.com/fars/info/p.....-119-FAR.shtml . If the town is congested (i.e. more than suburban residential density), minimums are 1000 feet. Same thing if the school is in recess.
-Might be a nice touch for Minty to get Fifi her own pilot's logbook. :)
Overall, a charming little tale! Bravo!
-Should be 'Ercoupe' with an e at the end.
Cleaning which valves? Not the intake/exhaust; that's a major overhaul. Minty could be checking the engine breather tube and the carburetor heat, though.
The control/gauge descriptions are quite good. I'd break the paragraphs up a bit, make them shorter.
-"November Mouse" might get one a mild reprimand from a humorless tower operator.
-As a rule, unpaved airports tend not to have control towers; rather, they use Unicom (i.e. a common frequency all the pilots use to announce their intentions). Frixample, when I was flying out of Whiteman Airpark in the San Fernando Valley, I'd typically say "Whiteman, Ercoupe Two-Seven Hotel downwind for runway One Two" (which would mean that I was flying opposite the runway in an imaginary rectangle". This would alert the other pilots at Whiteman what I was up to. I used Unicom to prevent a wreck once; a Navion (named the "Spirit of Big Louis" after its owner) was coming in with one wheel still up and I called him on Unicom and told him to abort the landing. He got the wheel down and landed normally. I kidded him about it after that. "You sure you got your wheels down, Louie?"
-Also, once one has announced oneself, it's just "Ercoupe Two Seven Hotel" instead of "Ercoupe Three Six Two Seven Hotel".
-Two magnetos.
-Always shout "CLEAR!" from the open window/door/canopy before starting the engine.
-Again, it'd be "Beech Eight Six Eight" once the initial contact is made.
-A multi-engine licence doesn't mean one is automatically eligible to fly every multi-engine plane out there. Minty would require some instruction and check flights before taking command of a DC-2.
I-f the airport has radar, it probably has transponder service. You may want to have the tower ask Minty to "Squawk" a four digit number.
-Altitude regulations: See http://www.risingup.com/fars/info/p.....-119-FAR.shtml . If the town is congested (i.e. more than suburban residential density), minimums are 1000 feet. Same thing if the school is in recess.
-Might be a nice touch for Minty to get Fifi her own pilot's logbook. :)
Overall, a charming little tale! Bravo!
Yeee! Thank you so much, Major! I'm real glad you liked the story, and that is indeed a lot of help you're giving me too! Thanks!
*giggles*
Yeh, the "Ercoupe"... that's a typo I missed. The valves she was cleaning... I have no frikkin clue, haha! I considered making the descriptional paragraphs shorter, too, but I couldn't quite think of many things to break them up with except for Fifi to keep repeating her questions of "what's that?" or something along those lines
Mmm, and so after the initial contact, one only needs to say the last three characters/digits of the registration? I'll definitely keep that in mind (saves on my typig, too ). I did mention two magnetos though, didn't I? Or did you mean I don't need the apostrophe before the s to pluralize it?
Ah, and the shouting of clear was something I did not find in my checklist research, so thanks!
*giggles*
As for the control tower and the flying of a twin-engine plane, yeh, that is something I kind of more used my artistic freedom as an author on, hee. And I think that Minty can look forward to a fine because she's been flying so low over the school, but she'll probably think it's been worth it
And thanks for the tip, too! I did say Minty has a lot of stuff for Fifi to read and study, mostly information from the Youth Corner of the FAA website and information about the Ninety-Nines and so such (of which she is a member herself and will get Fifi in too), so I can say that she has added a personal logbook to all of that for Fifi, too
Ohh, and one thing... I don't even know if the seats in the Beech Sundowner can be slid forwards or backwards, but either way, Fifi's too short to reach the rudder/brake pedals. Would you happen to know how such a thing could be overcome for when such a young/short person is learning how to fly? Something like the good old blocks-on-the-pedals trick or something?
*huggles*
In any way, thank you so much for all your help!
*giggles*
Yeh, the "Ercoupe"... that's a typo I missed. The valves she was cleaning... I have no frikkin clue, haha! I considered making the descriptional paragraphs shorter, too, but I couldn't quite think of many things to break them up with except for Fifi to keep repeating her questions of "what's that?" or something along those lines
Mmm, and so after the initial contact, one only needs to say the last three characters/digits of the registration? I'll definitely keep that in mind (saves on my typig, too ). I did mention two magnetos though, didn't I? Or did you mean I don't need the apostrophe before the s to pluralize it?
Ah, and the shouting of clear was something I did not find in my checklist research, so thanks!
*giggles*
As for the control tower and the flying of a twin-engine plane, yeh, that is something I kind of more used my artistic freedom as an author on, hee. And I think that Minty can look forward to a fine because she's been flying so low over the school, but she'll probably think it's been worth it
And thanks for the tip, too! I did say Minty has a lot of stuff for Fifi to read and study, mostly information from the Youth Corner of the FAA website and information about the Ninety-Nines and so such (of which she is a member herself and will get Fifi in too), so I can say that she has added a personal logbook to all of that for Fifi, too
Ohh, and one thing... I don't even know if the seats in the Beech Sundowner can be slid forwards or backwards, but either way, Fifi's too short to reach the rudder/brake pedals. Would you happen to know how such a thing could be overcome for when such a young/short person is learning how to fly? Something like the good old blocks-on-the-pedals trick or something?
*huggles*
In any way, thank you so much for all your help!
Thank you so much, dear! I'm really glad you liked it!
*giggles*
And would you believe I actually had Up and Down switched the other way in the first place? It wasn't until I started doing more research and came across the fact the flaps are also lifted upwards for braking (by getting the plane pushed down onto the wheels)which kinda made me unsure of what I had written so I changed it around, hee.
And well, yeh, I suppose I could post the sequel on SoFurry, or maybe even Inkbunny if I can retrieve my password from there.
*giggles and winks*
And I didn't think that one little line in all those thirty-something pages that mention there is a lack of underwear, which is the only vague reference to the fact without there being any graphic descriptions, would warrant a mature rating for this story
*giggles*
And would you believe I actually had Up and Down switched the other way in the first place? It wasn't until I started doing more research and came across the fact the flaps are also lifted upwards for braking (by getting the plane pushed down onto the wheels)which kinda made me unsure of what I had written so I changed it around, hee.
And well, yeh, I suppose I could post the sequel on SoFurry, or maybe even Inkbunny if I can retrieve my password from there.
*giggles and winks*
And I didn't think that one little line in all those thirty-something pages that mention there is a lack of underwear, which is the only vague reference to the fact without there being any graphic descriptions, would warrant a mature rating for this story
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