Landed in Fort Myers

We've landed in Fort Myers. Holy smokes, what a leg! We filed IFR from Waycross, Georgia direct to Fort Myers. We couldn't get direct, so we got a little bit of a crazy routing down there. On the way, our clearances changed at least three times. The weather wasn't too bad; it was hazy departing GA, and cleared up as we got into FL. We dodged all of the thunderstorms, so no problems there.

ATC was not in a good mood in Florida. It really got interesting as we were handed off to Fort Myers tower. There were four, maybe five planes trying to land. We were number four, and the controller had the planes inside of each other, making tight turns a necessity. We actually got told that we had to slow down on landing! There was a Sundowner in front of us taking his sweet time to get on the ground.

On the ground, parking, check-in, registration, and all of the paperwork went very smoothly. The airport is hopping! Line service had our car ready for us, and met us on the ramp. They unloaded our bags, had the air conditioning running in the car, and tossed us the keys. We felt like high-rollers!

I'll be posting pictures of the ramp and activity later, so look for that. We have to go back to the airport to complete our aircraft inspection.

*EDIT* Pictures have been updated in the slideshow. I'm trying to figure out how to put captions so you know what you are looking at.

The picture in this post is half of the ramp at sunset this evening. There are (I think?) more than 54 planes entered, and about 113 pilots. Busy busy!