Well, it’s time for our annual insurance renewal, which is never really fun, but has not typically been a big deal. We’ve been carrying hull insurance, which for the uninitiated is like comprehensive on a car, while we were doing our flight testing. This will likely be the last year we carry it, but surprisingly […]
Read MoreCongratulations are in order for our Velocity friends, the Brainards, as they have agreed to buy Hugh Dunn’s Danny Maher original (short wing retract) Velocity N5165U. Hugh built it in the late nineties, and flew it to Oshkosh a couple of times, but has not flown it in a few years. He’s at the point in […]
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I’ll post a full article shortly, but we’ve started the condition inspection. That went pretty well overall, with Jerry and Reiff helping out, but Reiff did notice a tooth on my starter had fractured. I’ve sent that back to B&C for repair. In the meantime I’ve changed the oil and added CamGuard for the first time. I don’t expect to […]
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 […]
Read MoreToday we went back out in the new Cherokee 180 and just got good an comfortable with her. The last flight we pretty much just went to Bolton and came back. Today we did slow flight, power on and off stalls, emergency procedures, steep turns, and short and soft field take-offs and landings. It was […]
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