Mark’s APRS Unit

I’ve been encouraging my friends to get APRS trackers for their airplanes for awhile now. Some of them have even gotten their HAM licenses. Mark is a special case, as he has an AVMap mounted in his airplane, which means he could hook up a mobile radio and track airplanes in flight! So, he’s first […]

Flying nose pant MKII, NACA VGs

Well, it’s a long time coming. Seriously. I was just looking back, and it’s been 4 YEARS since we flew with a nose pant. Hard to believe. We took that first flight with the nose gear pant on 8/24/10, and within a week (where we took 1 trip with pictures) had shattered it. We had noted a good speed increase, […]

GTN-650, Condition Inspection 2014

Work has been eating my lunch lately, but I did get this year’s condition inspection over the last couple of weekends, as well as mounting my new GTN-650. Having the Approach Fast Stack really made that pretty straightforward, although there is a fair amount of setup to do in the GRT to get it fully […]

Carlos works on the AutoPilot

I’ve been wanting to get my AP working for awhile, but it has taken on new urgency as I get ready for my instrument ticket. I made plans to fly to Grand Rapids to get Carlos, a buddy of mine and Andy’s that used to be one of the gurus at GRT to check it […]

IFR Training delay, radio arrives

Story of my life, my shiny new GPS NAV/Com, a sweet GTN650 GPS approach certified beast, arrives today, but my instructor has unexpectedly needed to leave town for about a month. Ouch, man. I’m going to continue to build time, and try to get the Autopilot tested with Carlos this weekend, and get the GPS […]

Reflections

Thanks to Rene’ Dugas for sending us this picture of us departing Oshkosh… It’s easy when you’re wrapped up in the doing of things to not step back and take stock in the moment. We flew our kitplane to Airventure. It still doesn’t seem totally real. The best part was, so did most of our […]