Flying with Pete Sweemer

I’m now “officially” a Velocity pilot. Although I’ve been ‘signed off’ for awhile, the insurance wanted more dual time, and I finished that tonight with Pete, for a total of 15 hours dual Velocity time (5 at the factory, 5 in N44VF with John from the factory, 2 with Dave Bertram in our plane, and […]

Flying with Dave Bertram

This morning I needed 5 hours dual for our insurance, now I need 3 thanks to our good friend Dave Bertram. He was passing through and agree to go fly with me to get a few of my hours knocked out. It’s been a long week, and I’m tired and losing my voice to a […]

A long day’s flight – Flying with John Abraham

I think I mentioned that our insurance company wanted me to get more time (10 hours dual) before they would cover me as PIC. That’s more than I would’ve expected, having completed the factory training already, but I did want to get some transition in our plane anyway, so it wasn’t a big lay-on. To […]

Brett’s Factory Checkout

I blogged this too, but for folks that may not read that I’ll summarize here. I took the factory checkout from April 14 to 16, 2014. The course consisted of 5 hours of flight time and 3 hours of ground instruction. If you built the airplane, the ground school will be a bit dry, but […]

Flight Training Audio

Now you can listen to my flights by clicking the links (as if you wanted to listen to hours of my messing up flying a Warrior 160!). Flight 0 Familiarization with the Piper Warrior and Instructor Flight 1 – 05/05/2012 Starting my training for real this time Flight 2 – 05/08/2012 Climbs, trim, slow […]

Flight 51 – Complex Cross-Country – Simulated IFR 22 KLEX

Today was kind of cool, not only did I get my complex endorsement, but also visited a new airport for the first time, Lexington’s Blue Grass field. We got up early and transitioned Cincinnati’s Class B airspace and got the ILS for Runway 22, which I did a pretty good job of flying if say […]