Paris Texas KPRX

 Hello fellow aviators! It has been a while. Didn't something happen to the world in the last couple of years? Be that as it may, we are finally coming out of our self induced cocoons and re-assimilating. Today brings us to an adventure in Paris Texas and Cox Field (KPRX). This is a 63 nautical mile trip to the northeast of McKinney (KTKI). 

Today consisted of John Schweers and Chris Jurgens in John's Bonanza, Scott Kirkland and myself in his Cirrus, Chris Dennis and his girlfriend, Michelle, in his Mooney and finally Ben Jones in his beautiful 182 P. 

First off, it was chilly this morning. I woke up to 41º and slightly overcast skies but very high clouds. When we got to the airport, we had some high winds. McKinney has a 18/36 runway favoring 36 today with winds 340@19 G25. No matter what, it was a beautiful day.

Here we are lined up waiting for our turn for takeoff. Once we were in the air if you looked to the south, you got a view like this.

And if you looked forward, you got this view.

It is just over a 30 minute flight and we had 3 aircraft in trail while Chris wanted to do some VOR work and flew to the Bonham VOR and then to the Paris VOR before flying straight in to Paris.

I always hand it to Scott. The man is a phenomenal pilot and 99 out of 100 times, you get a landing like this, even as strong as the winds were.

  Welcome to Paris Texas!

And now to the crew cars. They have 2. Since they know my aversion to Crown Vics, we got the Crown Vic. The other car was a Honda Accord. Since it wasn't Crown Vic, it already was a notch above the rest.

Before getting in the back of the Crown Vic, Chris needed to relive some old memories of the last time he was in the back of a Crown Vic. 

Before we went to the agreed upon eatery, we had to make a stop at what makes Paris famous. The awful tower, I mean the Eiffel Tower of Texas, complete with a cowboy hat.

Among all of the other tourists we found one who agreed to take a picture without stealing my phone. 

After all of this high quality tourism of world class architecture, our hunger got the best of us. So it was off to Jaxx Gourmet Burgers on the square in downtown Paris. 

 

With a menu like this, the decisions were tough. Everyone had something different. The 2 most unique were the German Burger and the Korean Burger. No one left this place the slightest bit hungry. Even as I am writing this 5 hours later, I'm still full. 

We made it back to PRX safely, but full. This was such a great day of fun between a fine group of aviators.

Thanks for the fun guys!