Up at 7:30 to the sound of chirping birds outside our bedroom window. The sun is shining in and the temperature and humidity has subsided to much more comfortable levels.
We make pancakes for breakf
Do I have any readers in Salt Lake City, Utah? I'm stopping over here for a couple of days, and all I know to do is walk down and look at the big salty lake, and wander around downtown.
Edit: I did
The day after my interview I get e-mail from a woman looking for a ferry pilot, with a link to a picture and specs on a cute, tiny, airplane. I'm not even sure it counts as an airplane under Canadian
It’s finally come down to it, time to sell the RV-4. I swore that this would be my last airplane but my flying mission has changed. I really want to start getting into the old back country strip
Interesting times at the Home Base since MS and the IFR Pilot returned from NOLA. Unmentioned in the prior post was the borderline scary takeoff from the Home Base's 2350 foot runway. Picture this:
i decided to go out for a few landings today at KJYO (leesburg). it was pretty hot but i wanted the practice. during the preflight i discovered that the stall warning horn didn't work (used the inha
I had my first cross country (with instructor) yesterday and it was a BLAST! My plan had us doing a large loop to the north and west of Westosha - hitting Dodge County (
Being a Captain entails a lot more responsibility than sitting in the right seat. There is a saying out there that if the shit hits the fan, look to your left for help. That's all well and good if you
The abbreviation for thundershowers in aviation weather reports and forecasts is TSRA, which stands for "ThunderStorms and RAin." As boring as that little bit of trivia may be, real life thunderstorms
On the 5th of June, an Eclipse 500 was about to land when it experienced a windshear. The pilot applied full power to counteract it. After touchdown, the plane accelerated, with both engines deliverin
I have a dirty little secret: I have used the same password for my web site accounts for years. Yahoo!, Google, Hotmail, Amazon, all of them — same password, unchanged for years. I've always
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