2014 Flying Seniors Day Recap

Every fall our airport sponsors an event for the nearby retirement community. It’s a really nice deal where they bus between 100 and 150 senior citizens over, and they grill out and serve them in the big hangar while airport residents take anybody who wants to for rides. The airport picks up the fuel bill, […]

2014 Oshkosh Part 2

Part 2 – (I was about to break our hosting software if I continued Part 1 – I won’t bore you with the details) I forgot to mention the night air show and women fly events on the Part 1 page. air launched pyro, what could go wrong? wall of fire Elizabeth and Laurie at the […]

2014 Oshkosh Part 1

Update 1: Congratulations to Andy and Theresa Millin on winning a Bronze Lindy. I’m going to start trying to do more travel reporting now that we’re flying to more interesting locations. First up is Oshkosh, our longest flight to date, and a very significant one. So, without further adieu, Part 1… (continued in Part 2) Thursday July […]

Flying with Dave Bertram

This morning I needed 5 hours dual for our insurance, now I need 3 thanks to our good friend Dave Bertram. He was passing through and agree to go fly with me to get a few of my hours knocked out. It’s been a long week, and I’m tired and losing my voice to a […]

A long day’s flight – Flying with John Abraham

I think I mentioned that our insurance company wanted me to get more time (10 hours dual) before they would cover me as PIC. That’s more than I would’ve expected, having completed the factory training already, but I did want to get some transition in our plane anyway, so it wasn’t a big lay-on. To […]

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 […]