Well, I got a note from the FAA this week asking for some additional paperwork for my medical, which I’m in the process of getting, so it’ll be a few more weeks before I get to fly solo. But, never fear, because I’m back flying out of Lebanon (our home airport). It’s been a strange […]
Read MoreAnother lesson tonight, and we focused on short field and soft field operations mostly, although we did do some slow flight and stalls to try an sharpen my skills after the long break. Overall my flying is OK, though I do need to be sharper on roundout and landing. I still flare a little too […]
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One of these days our beloved airplane will be a motion picture star. We agreed to allow the folks at David Garrison Productions to use our plane in a feature film they are making to support the American Cancer Society, the Last Race, and we helped them film our scenes this evening. They shot several scenes […]
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Our building buddies the Brainards are considering a longtime local Velocity builder/flyer’s airplane as a way to get started flying sooner while they finish their XL/RG. They asked me to come along to check it out with one of their A&P fried of theirs. I’ll be posting pictures on the wiki page for his airplane soon, but […]
Read MoreToday Pete and I did pattern work. My medical is off getting processed in Oklahoma City, and probably won’t be granted for another couple of weeks, but he thinks I’m nearly ready to solo, so he wants to get me good and ready. I’m struggling a bit with the sight picture at Blue Ash. The […]
Read MoreThere’s still no flight school at Warren County, so I’ve started flying (with the same airplane and instructor) and the nearly defunct Blue Ash Airport. The airport is due to close, but nobody has a firm date, and since this school bought our trainer, it’s where I’m at for now. There’s still some chance that […]
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