By the time we made the drive from HNL airport into town, it was getting to be towards early evening. Our hotel is right on Waikiki Beach. But even with the five hour time difference from Texas, I ma
Bf is away on a long-haul trip at the moment. I was pretty hacked off yesterday morning. He always rings me to say goodnight wherever he is. Except on Friday night/Saturday morning. I was absolutely f
Yellowbird is whole again. After five long months sitting in a corner of the FBO hangar due to a cracked engine crankcase, she's finally fixed, reassembled, and signed off. Yesterday I paid the bill a
I had the chance this weekend to do a ferry flight for my flight school. The flight was short but very fun. I had to drop of my flight instructor to pick up a plane that was in Midland for a starter r
Walk through any airport anywhere in the world and you will find pilots trudging through the terminal with their rollaboards and flight kits in tow. The fact that we're often gone from home for days o
Once again I'm borrowing time on someone else's computer. I've decided I'll soon be investing in one of these new "mini" laptops, probably the one just being marketed by Dell.
In early 2006 me and Paul flew to the annual rec.aviation Pinckneyville Fly-In in Illinois. I blogged about it as it was the furthest I had ever flown i
A friend I took on a local flight recently recorded a video of the engine start-up sequence for the Cessna 172SP. It's the regular start-up sequence straight from the flight manual. The engine is a f
2) I thought this semester was going to be easier than the last one. I already know a lot of the material in one of the courses, and I know how the syst
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