frederick municipal airport in maryland (KFDK) had a fly-in today and i drove up to it. the weather was very hot (upper 90's) and unpleasant. it was as interesting as last year but the heat was very
Having a week off at OMNI, I decided to fly back home. I booked flight 1861, operated by TAP Portugal, leaving Lisbon to Ponta Delgada at 08:00 hours local time.
It’s has been many years
Today's flying pretty well matched the forecast: weak lift, 2 knots, not going very high. There was probably an inversion at 5000' MSL or so, but the air was clear enough you could not see the inversi
I was approached by a member of the Buttonville Flying Club to be a safety pilot for him so that he may do some approaches to keep his IFR currency. This was to be done in the owners aircraft, a 1980
This post is the second in a series co-written with PlasticPilot, the editor of http://www.plasticpilot.net/. This series compares flying light aircraft in Europe (his point of view) and in US (my poi
FBOs typically monitor the ground control radio frequency, so that when you
request taxi to that FBO, they know you are coming and can be ready to wave you
in. Otherwise they just see you trudling
Take a look at the post and comments below, then come back and explain something to me. Since Chimpy McHitlerBush has been President, the opposition has been chanting loud and long about "Loss of
To prepare for our trip to Switzerland, I flew with the Saratoga to Andrewsfield, a small airfield near Stansted in Essex that I’d not been to before. Andrewsfield was built by the Americans in
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