Flight Training Lesson 4

Lesson 4, and Pete pulled the first “engine out on take-off” drill. Big laughs had by all. 😉 More slow flight today, along with stalls, both power on and off, as well as clean and dirty. I felt I was doing better today, but I’m still chasing the airplane, at least when I change power […]

Flight Training Lesson 3

Third lesson with Pete tonight, and we started doing ground reference maneuvers (turns about a point, S turns over a road). I still suck, and I totally lost my situational awareness, which I hate, but hey, that’s the way it goes. It’s going to take me awhile to get the hang of the Piper, I’m […]

Flight Training Lesson 2

Flight 2 of my restarted training. I’m still getting used to the Warrior, but I think I’m doing OK. We went out and started by climbing to altitude and trimming the airplane out, then Pete would change the power setting and force me to retrim the airplane. That was all we were planning to do, […]

Flight Training Lesson 1

So spring is officially here, and I want to get started with my training in earnest. I’m planning on flying 2-3 times a week, but we’ll see how we do. Today I did my first flight with Pete, and it was really just to get me familiar with the Warrior. Basically Pete and I just […]

Gross weight testing, part 1

Now that we’re comfortable with the new prop we’d like to revisit our gross weight testing. Before we weren’t happy with the acceleration fully loaded with the Catto and decided to derate the gross weight of our plane until we upgraded to a constant speed prop. She accelerates great now, and we’d like to increase […]

Congratulations Andy

As we alluded to in our last update, John Abraham visited Andy Millin after he left us, and his beautiful N114MV has taken her first flight! Congratulations guys. We got to know the Millin’s a few years back, about half way through our builds as it turns out, and we couldn’t be happier for him […]