I'm back and fully rested from my recent trip. It was quite the adventure with some rare destinations for us. 48 hours of flying had us hitting Italy, Cape Town South Africa, Ascension Island, and t
Any piece of equipment on board can fail at any time, and all pilots train, to be ready to cope with any failure. This picture has been taken by a passenger while my instructor decided it was time to
After a week in which we studied ILS components, runway markings and ATC clearances, and flew together twice with mixed results, I took it upon myself to go out and practice approaches by myself today
When my company hired me two decades ago, one of the first things I noticed about many of my fellow pilots was that they were cheap bastards. I consider this to be a compliment to my fellow aviators.
I get a phone call informing me that the autopilot works, this time, and to book a flight. We reassemble in the big city of ... oh I'll let you figure it out, to once again try to renew our PPCs in a
Background: Brother is building an RV-6 and around Christmas time the big brown box from Lycoming showed up. An early Christmas present of sorts. He had a few items to contend with before hanging an