A PVT SMA PLT FAILS TO CONTACT FAY DEP CTL AFTER AN IFR DEP FROM SOP; NC. HE WAS DISTR WITH A PLT PAX ASKING QUESTIONS.

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DUE TO SOME MORNING HAZE; I FILED AN IFR FLT PLAN FROM MOORE COUNTY ARPT (SOP) TO SMITHFIELD; JOHNSON COUNTY ARPT (JNX); BOTH IN NC. I FILED DIRECT TO LEE NDB THEN DIRECT TO JNX IN ORDER TO AVOID FT BRAGG MOA AND POPE AFB. PURPOSE OF FLT WAS TO HAVE SOME AVIONICS WORK ACCOMPLISHED. A FRIEND REQUESTED TO RIDE ALONG WITH ME. HE IS A VERY LOW TIME PVT PLT WHO HASN'T PILOTED AN ACFT IN OVER 2 YRS. I WAS CLRED FOR TKOF AND TOLD TO CONTACT FAY DEP. MY PAX HAD NEVER FLOWN IN A HIGH PERFORMANCE LIGHT ACFT AND ASKED MANY QUESTIONS ON CLBOUT AND IN CRUISE. BECAUSE I WAS DISTR; I FAILED TO CONTACT FAY DEP. I RECEIVED A CALL FROM SOP UNICOM REQUESTING THAT I CALL FAY APCH; WHICH I DID IMMEDIATELY AND FAY REQUESTED I CONTACT RDU APCH JUST AS JNX ARPT CAME INTO VIEW. WHEN I LANDED JNX; UNICOM REQUESTED I CONTACT FAY ATC BY TELEPHONE. I EXPLAINED MY MEMORY LAPSE AND THE PERSON I SPOKE TO WAS VERY PLEASANT BUT EXPLAINED THERE WERE SOME C130'S OUT THERE BUT DID NOT INDICATE I CREATED ANY PROB WITH THE C130'S. I HAVE NEVER HAD THIS PROB IN 21 YRS OF FLYING. HOWEVER; MY PERSONAL FLYING RULES WILL INCLUDE NO COCKPIT CONVERSATION UNTIL MY ACFT IS IN CRUISE FLT AND ALL COMS HAVE BEEN SOLIDIFIED.