Flight 50 – Complex Cross-Country – Simulated IFR VOR 14 KMIE, GPS 19 I68

One more simulated IFR cross-country to Muncie, but this time we did get to shoot the approach to runway 14. I have to say that I like the ILS approaches better than the timed legs of the VOR approaches, but it is what it is. With today’s flight, I just have 1.5 needed to get […]

Preparing to move

Just to keep things interesting, it looks like we’ll be moving soon… but only about a mile… We weren’t looking to sell our house, and it does make me a bit sad to leave the house that we built the plane in behind, but ever since we moved here there was one house in the […]

Flight 49 – Complex Cross-Country – Simulated IFR VOR/GPS Approaches

We went out tonight to some poor weather, the ceilings were relatively high, but there was occasional rain showers underneath and the threat of convective activity. So we decided to fly towards the weather, and then beat our way back home in case it got worse. As it turns out the weather was getting a […]

Flight 48 – Complex Cross-Country – Simulated IFR

SSDD. Today we went out and did another simulated IFR cross-country, but I didn’t have quite as much time, so we popped up to Dayton again and then headed to Lunken field for an ILS to their 21L. It was a fairly uneventful flight, but the winds were up again (it is spring after all), […]

Flight 47 – Complex Cross-Country – Simulated IFR

This evening Pete and I went out and decided to get some real time on my “required” 10 hours for the complex while getting ahead of the game on my IFR ticket, which he knows that I also want to pursue. So we took off and headed for Port Columbus International for a simulated IFR […]

2013 – N101ME – HARRIS PIERCE – Velocity XL/RG – Avon Park, FL – 0

The pilot and the pilot-rated passenger departed for the destination airport with about 50 gallons of fuel on board. About 35 minutes into the flight, they heard a “pop.” They then scanned the instruments and noted that everything looked good. A short time later, they heard additional “pop” sounds. The pilot then began descending the […]