New home

Not that most of you care particularly, but this is what has been keeping from doing much flying, or my transition training… we are now in the new house, though it’s still pretty disorganized. I hope to get back to the airplane in the next couple of weeks, but until we’re comfortably ensconced in the […]

Preparing to move

Just to keep things interesting, it looks like we’ll be moving soon… but only about a mile… We weren’t looking to sell our house, and it does make me a bit sad to leave the house that we built the plane in behind, but ever since we moved here there was one house in the […]

Flying the Fox

I won’t lie to you and pretend this was the first time I flew my airplane, our good friend Dave Bertram gave me that honor awhile back… but I wasn’t a “real” pilot back then and… ahem… the airplane didn’t have many hours on it, if you know what I mean, so I was really careful with it. […]

AOPA Magazine Features the Velocity Twin

Check out this month’s (January 2013) AOPA magazine for a cover story on the Velocity Twin by Dave Hirschman. It’s pretty positive, and is the only time that I know of the Velocity being featured in what is, essentially, a GA (read as not experimental) magazine. In fact I don’t recall any experimentals getting this treatment, though […]

PTS passed – Private Pilot Certificate Awarded by Martha Lunken

I don’t normally post flight training stuff here on the blog, because it’s not of interest to everybody (some folks are just interested in stories about the airplane), but I thought I’d just give folks the heads-up to check out the “Flight Training” section on the lefthand side if you are interested as I was […]

Winter flying

My flight test for today was scrubbed and moved to tomorrow, so instead Elizabeth went out and got current in our plane. It was just a few patterns, but it was good practice as she hadn’t flown the Velocity on snow before. The winds were light, and the sun was out, and she looked uber-cool […]