Transition Training Update 4

I’ve been in Sebastian since Monday morning, with Pete my flight instructor who was kind enough to share driving duties, working on transitioning into the Velocity with John in N94VA. We were also behind Pier, who was looking to buy Larry Coen’s SE/RG and fly in home. The flying had been good, and although I’d […]

[VIDEO] Mark’s Zoom

Riley Velocity N929X departing I68, Lebanon Warren County Airport, zoom to altitude…. For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur. Quis aute iure […]

2014 – N114MV- Andy Millin – Velocity XL/FG – Allegan, MI – 0

A very minor incident in the scheme of things, but worth tracking now that there has been another main gear failure in a XL/FG. On landing Andy got a bad vibration that he thought was a nose wheel shimmy, so he applied very hard braking. As it turns out, the torsional wrap on the main […]

Spring Velocity Visit, 2014 Edition

So, I’m really, really late posting this, but it’s understandable since I just finished my trip to Florida. The Thursday before I left to get my factory flight training my buddy Andy called wanting to fly down for the weekend as we were forecast for great weather. This is what owning airplanes is about, so […]

Transition Training Update 3

So, I still plan to have Dave Bertram up to fly with me in our plane in May, as soon as he can get here, but I’m now also planning to travel to Sebastian for the Factory check-out program. This way I’ll get the endorsement in case our insurance wants it, and get some quality […]

Flying to breakfast with the Stockman’s

Bill and Terry Stockman’s standard elite fixed now has it’s new Garm G3X panel up and running, so we met them at Urbana’s Grimes field, home of the MERFI fly-in, for breakfast. It’s far enough to be a somewhat interesting flight, a bit over 20 minutes, but close enough to be fairly stress free. I’ll […]