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it is crazy how time flies.
since becoming an instructor in early march of this year i have gained some valuable experience and a rapid increase in hours. below is a breakdown of my hours by mont

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VOR-9 into ANE is a good approach to start off with for a new instrument student. It's simple -- there's only one IAF, a good easily identifiable FAF, no stepdown fixes, and you can use DME if you ha

I missed the fly by but here one of Cana

I just noticed that after today’s flight, I’m on the last page of my log book. Soon I’m going to have to file this one away and start a new one. I’m going to miss this old gu

I elected to make today's lesson a ground briefing to go over some things that will happen during the flight test. I spent 0.8 hours going over some questions that I had about how the flight test is

I’ve written before about my doing practice approaches with a safety pilot in order to be current for IFR operations. Well, there is another way to restore your currency, and that’s to pe

A couple of weeks ago car-rental company

Yesterday, under a low ceiling and poor visibility in showers, I made my shortest-ever point-to-point trip in an airplane, flying the 7 nm from

I’ve been playing wi

One of the cool things you get to do with your PPL is take people to other places a lot faster than you would by driving. Most of my passenger flights have been simple sightseeing jaunts around the W

Virgin CEO Sir Richard Branson seems to be turning into the Bob Geldof of the aviation industry, what with his plans to save the world and all. The

The weather was spectacular. The seasons have cha

Well – on the basis that I know that I learn more from my mistakes than from what I do well – todays taildragging lesson ranks as one of my most ‘successful’ learning session yet! Yep – wha

The weather was spectacular. The seasons have changed here and morning temps have been cool in the low 50's. The visibility was

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Seems that my changes to SpamKarma last night to try to thwart the trackback spam failed to solve the issue - I received 3 additional blatant spam trackbacks through the night, and another 2 arrived t

The mist that came off of the Merrimack river brought visibility down to a mile. I knew I'd be hanging out at the airport for about an hour. John tells me that nobody has the slot after me, so I can f

RenO and I were flying the

RenO and I were flying the

Here's the latest news on the Wright Amendment fight.

WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Legislation that would end a long-running Texas turf war between airline powerhouses -- AMR Corp.'s Ame

Here's the latest news on the Wright Amendment fight.

WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Legislation that would end a long-running Texas turf war between airline powerhouses -- AMR Corp.'s Ame