After departing Wisconsin Dells we took the following day to trek to Gurnee Illinois, home of a Six Flags theme park that I had visited many years ago and we wanted to visit again with the whole famil
A couple of weeks ago I received an e-mail from a reader of this blog who is a fellow Chicagoan that was interested in my opinion of a few local flight schools. After going back and forth through e-ma
I landed in Salt Lake City with 200 psi of oxygen left in my tank, so I called for oxygen service. I was cleaning out the airplane when they arrived with a cart full of long green oxygen tanks,
a couple of us planned a longish (for us) flight to KVBW (bridgewater, va) and KBCB (blacksburg, va) yesterday. we've been in instr ground school so we picked those specifically because we thought
Well before starting my IFR training, I read an interesting paper in a French aviation magazine, about what flying IFR involves. The author developed the hypothesis of a knowledgeable VFR pilot, filin
This question comes from Karl:
I’m thinking about buying a retractable gear aircraft with 250 HP engine from a CFI who lost his medical. I am certified in high perfomrance AC (C-182) but I only
I decided to shoot some overdue IFR approaches today while under the hood in the Skylane with integral autopilot. The sky was hazy with an overcast layer somewhere around 6,000 feet so I filed for 6,
I decided to shoot some overdue IFR approaches today while under the hood in the Skylane with integral autopilot. The sky was hazy with an overcast layer somewhere around 6,000 feet so I filed for 6,
We've been getting some heat and tropical moisture influx for a few days, so I figured we might get some cumulus clouds to mark the lift... normally Hemet is so dry that all we get are "blue" thermals
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