Flight 46 – Starting my Complex Endorsement

I’m now starting to get my complex endorsement, not really because I need it, but it’s good to have, but rather mostly because it puts me in a different airplane. I’m going to try to fly as many different airplanes as I can before inviting John from the factory to come up and do my […]

Flight 45 – High Performance Endorsement

Well, for weeks I’ve been trying to get my high performance check out with Aviator’s Flight Academy/Blue Ash Aviation, but they just don’t have enough instructor time available to get it done. Luckily Elizabeth finally recommended I check out Sporty’s, and it turns out they too do have a Cessna 182 for rent. Also, they […]

2013 – N33SV- Owens – Velocity SE/RG – Maricopa, AZ – 0

Engine power failure (Subaru). On March 25, 2013, about 1310 mountain standard time, an experimental Owens Velocity 173 airplane, N33SV, experienced a loss of engine power during cruise and made a forced landing on a dirt road near Maricopa, Arizona. The pilot/owner operated the airplane under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part […]

Flight 44 – Starting my High Performance Endorsement

It is somewhat fitting that flight “44” would be the beginning of my transition to high performance aircraft. I need this for insurance on the Velocity, and so I want to get it completed before I start my transition work in the Velocity. It is also useful in that I think training in many different […]

Pursuing a High-Power Endorsement

I’ve pretty much settled on using Blue Ash Aviation/Aviator’s Flight Academy (now at Dayton Wright Brother’s) for my high power rating, they’re just about the only ones locally that have a plane in the category to rent. Of course I’ll need to use their instructors, and I’m finding them extremely difficult to schedule on the […]

Flying the Fox

I won’t lie to you and pretend this was the first time I flew my airplane, our good friend Dave Bertram gave me that honor awhile back… but I wasn’t a “real” pilot back then and… ahem… the airplane didn’t have many hours on it, if you know what I mean, so I was really careful with it. […]