Day #5 without my family and I'm pretty bored already .. 12 more to go! Kim and the little man are down on the West Coast (Maple Ridge, near Abbotsford) for a visit. Kim's sister Karen is back from En
Well, it's just about 7 p.m. I just got home from a business trip. On my way home, I start going through about 15 voice mails. Voice mail number 10: "Hi this is ***** from XYZ flight school, your
Goals: 8 night landings, with and without landing lights.Light night maneuvers.Night VFR navigation. Flight: We met up at 6 at the terminal to sign me off to take the written exam and to cha
Last weekend, I made it through the rest of the King Instrument DVDs. Now, these DVDs are excellent; however, by "excellent" I mean that they present the information needed for test preparation in a
I'm super tired right now and am going to bed! But first I just wanted to report that I got in my 8 night landings tonight with Chuck, and we did a little slow flight and two stalls by starlight.
A former instrument student of mine sent me email a while back with a question about the Salinas ILS RWY 31 approach. His question had to do with the missed approach and he wondered why the approach c
I have looked into the abyss and found it staring straight back at me. Yeah, that's Celine Dion. Yeah, that's an AC/DC song. Yeah, she's air-guitaring it. I need to post about aviation t
My apologies to nervous fliers (believe it or not some read this blog), but there are lots of things in aviation
with morbid names. We do take our jobs seriously so when we talk of a "graveyard spir
I've been flying at night with one of my instrument students, which is great because night is great for instrument training. It's harder for students to cheat, even unknowingly, for starters so it's