Getting ready for Instrument Flight

I think I’m going to get my IFR ticket this year. My instructor Pete has talked with a local examiner about giving the check ride in our Velocity, and we’re good there. I’ve also started an IFR subscription to the Seattle Avonics data for the GRT HX we have in the airplane. Below are some screenshots, but […]

[VIDEO] Millin arrival I68 4/18/2014

I forgot my good video camera, so here is some shaky iPhone video of Andy and Theresa arriving at Lebanon-Warren County airport for the weekend.

Panel Pictures

I’m mostly posting this to show the new approach plates and charts options, but folks always want to see a combined set of final panel pictures. Low Altitude Approach chart left, sectional right, Geo-Referenced! I68 GPS Runway 1 Approach Plate CO Guardian and Pulse Oximeter reads out on our HX screens This is the screen […]

Transition Training Update 5

Signed off and home now. It was a great, but very busy week for us (Pete my instructor and I). We drove straight through on Sunday to get to Sebastian from Cincinnati by midnight, started ground school on Monday along with Pier (a potential Velocity buyer), flying twice on Monday, once on Tuesday (Pier was […]

Brett’s Factory Checkout

I blogged this too, but for folks that may not read that I’ll summarize here. I took the factory checkout from April 14 to 16, 2014. The course consisted of 5 hours of flight time and 3 hours of ground instruction. If you built the airplane, the ground school will be a bit dry, but […]

[VIDEO] Pete’s Velocity Flight

My instructor Pete went with me to Sebastian (X26), I got the full factory checkout and sign off, but we got Pete some flight time in N94VA too. Here are his first take off an landings.