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 […]

Transition Training Update 4

I’ve been in Sebastian since Monday morning, with Pete my flight instructor who was kind enough to share driving duties, working on transitioning into the Velocity with John in N94VA. We were also behind Pier, who was looking to buy Larry Coen’s SE/RG and fly in home. The flying had been good, and although I’d […]

Spring Velocity Visit, 2014 Edition

So, I’m really, really late posting this, but it’s understandable since I just finished my trip to Florida. The Thursday before I left to get my factory flight training my buddy Andy called wanting to fly down for the weekend as we were forecast for great weather. This is what owning airplanes is about, so […]

Transition Training Update 3

So, I still plan to have Dave Bertram up to fly with me in our plane in May, as soon as he can get here, but I’m now also planning to travel to Sebastian for the Factory check-out program. This way I’ll get the endorsement in case our insurance wants it, and get some quality […]

Flying to breakfast with the Stockman’s

Bill and Terry Stockman’s standard elite fixed now has it’s new Garm G3X panel up and running, so we met them at Urbana’s Grimes field, home of the MERFI fly-in, for breakfast. It’s far enough to be a somewhat interesting flight, a bit over 20 minutes, but close enough to be fairly stress free. I’ll […]

Transition Training Update 2

Looks like I’ll be inviting Dave Bertram back to Ohio to fly with me. Dave’s out of the test flying business (except his own airplane – it looks like he’s having some of the same MoGas issues that Bill Mulrooney recently discussed), but is willing to help me out as a personal favor. Elizabeth and […]