I’m back from vacation, and show is Pete (he’d flown to Florida in an RV-7 based on the field)… so, it was time to get in my required night cross-country. The days are getting shorter, so we were able to knock it out without being out too late. We took the relatively easy flight up […]
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Vacation is over, the annual is done, and as it happens it’s my company’s day out at the amusement park. I’ve been telling my coworkers about the airplane for years, so after checking out the airplane around the airport I thought it would be cool to give some of them a chance to see us […]
Read MoreMy flying is going to be winding down for a little over a week as we near the long Labor Day Break (we’ll be vacationing in Myrtle Beach), so we wanted to get in our required long cross country. Flying direct from Lebanon to Muncie, Indiana, then to Butler County (where my EAA chapter resides), then back home […]
Read MoreI’ve just about got everything I need pulled together to send back to the FAA for my medical, and I’ve got a couple of flights to get in before our Labor Day vacation, so tonight we went out and did some night flying. I’ve always enjoyed flying at night. It’s so calm, typically very few […]
Read MorePete and I moved on to another new skillset today. We did both unusual attitude recovery and simulated instrument (IFR, or hood time) flying. We started with some soft and short field work as a recap of the previous flight. I did OK, but still need some work there, the last couple being pretty good, but the […]
Read MoreWe beat the storms tonight to do some more precision airplane work, mostly soft field take-offs and short field landings. We did a couple at Warren County, including a failed engine on take-off simulation, then headed over to Middletown. MWO was buzzing with activity, and we did a couple of short field landings there before […]
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