Carlos works on the AutoPilot

I’ve been wanting to get my AP working for awhile, but it has taken on new urgency as I get ready for my instrument ticket. I made plans to fly to Grand Rapids to get Carlos, a buddy of mine and Andy’s that used to be one of the gurus at GRT to check it […]

IFR Training delay, radio arrives

Story of my life, my shiny new GPS NAV/Com, a sweet GTN650 GPS approach certified beast, arrives today, but my instructor has unexpectedly needed to leave town for about a month. Ouch, man. I’m going to continue to build time, and try to get the Autopilot tested with Carlos this weekend, and get the GPS […]

Reflections

Thanks to Rene’ Dugas for sending us this picture of us departing Oshkosh… It’s easy when you’re wrapped up in the doing of things to not step back and take stock in the moment. We flew our kitplane to Airventure. It still doesn’t seem totally real. The best part was, so did most of our […]

2014 Oshkosh Part 2

Part 2 – (I was about to break our hosting software if I continued Part 1 – I won’t bore you with the details) I forgot to mention the night air show and women fly events on the Part 1 page. air launched pyro, what could go wrong? wall of fire Elizabeth and Laurie at the […]

Andy is an Award Winner

Just a quick note to give our buddy Andy a shout out. He’s won a 2014 Bronze Lindy at Airventure for his XL/FG N114MV! Congratulations to he and Theresa, they deserve all of the accolades as he has spent many years making his fit and finishes superb, and it’s proof that nice guys can finish […]

Airventure 2014

Well Oshkosh is over for another year, and this may have been the best yet. I’m going to write a full travel entry for the trip, but we flew back early on Friday, and the plane performed wonderfully up and back. Driving to Oshkosh is a painful affair, with at least 8 hours of driving […]