A funny thing happened on the way back from Columbus this weekend. Actually, it’s the sort of thing that’s only funny in retrospect, but anyway. We have onboard traffic, supplied by the FAA’s ADS-B program, and it’s pretty awesome. You get these little markers showing all of the airplanes around you, with the direction of […]
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This weekend we decided to fly to Columbus to visit Elizabeth’s sister Amy and her boyfriend, and take them for rides. The flight to Columbus’ Bolton Field was one of the “longer” cross-country flights during my flight training, but is a very easy 20-25 minute flight in the Velocity (versus nearly an hour and half […]
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Wow…. Long time without updates, and I’ve probably lost 98% of my readers! Sorry about that. We’ve had a long dry spell driven by the new house, and all that that entails, and we’ve just returned from a (commercially flown) trip to California. Just before we left I’d pulled our LightSpeed ignitions out of the […]
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Not that most of you care particularly, but this is what has been keeping from doing much flying, or my transition training… we are now in the new house, though it’s still pretty disorganized. I hope to get back to the airplane in the next couple of weeks, but until we’re comfortably ensconced in the […]
Read MoreNow you can listen to my flights by clicking the links (as if you wanted to listen to hours of my messing up flying a Warrior 160!). Flight 0 Familiarization with the Piper Warrior and Instructor Flight 1 – 05/05/2012 Starting my training for real this time Flight 2 – 05/08/2012 Climbs, trim, slow […]
Read MoreToday was kind of cool, not only did I get my complex endorsement, but also visited a new airport for the first time, Lexington’s Blue Grass field. We got up early and transitioned Cincinnati’s Class B airspace and got the ILS for Runway 22, which I did a pretty good job of flying if say […]
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