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I just returned from a relaxing extended weekend in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Through a combination of long weekends and if I am lucky a full week vacation I usually enjoy 10-20 days up in Northern Wis

I first started planning/worrying about my 300nm X-Country flight last September. My original plan was to make the trip

Funny story for you with humor that only a pilot may understand. I was checking the ASOS at my home airport on the way in tonight and I heard something interesting on the radio: Automated weather, ti

Word around the hanger today is that the Eclipse 500 was certified for Flight Into Known Icin

Despite my lack of blogging, I actually did some flying in May. In the early part of the month I flew my last flight in the venerable 95T out of Mettetal. Here is a pic as I wait in line to depart fro

Sixty years ago today two Douglas C-47's lifted off from Frankfurt, Germany enroute to Berlin Tempelhof airport in what would become the first flights of Operation Vittles, better known as the

Listening to - Billy Joel - My Life

I'm all confirmed for August 12th in Chicago for my PEPC. Anyone have suggestions for things to do in Chi-town? I'm going to get there the day before to

This satellite image only shows larger fires over a certain acreage that can show

Relating what happened to me on Nav6 is going to take more than one post. It’s not that this flight was any longer than the previous ones. It's simply that the first leg was a comedy of errors so fa

I’m a tall pilot - slightly over 1m90 - and it’s not always easy. Cockpit designers do their best, but some planes can’t simply be flown by pilots over 1m80. The

So while I haven’t been posting, I also haven’t been flying much. Weather has been horrible, and my two students have been on hiatus for vacations and lack of money. I haven’t missed

While I don't go through passenger screening X-rays on the way to my airplane, the US is introducing screening with radiation detectors for private aircraft. My information comes from