Bill and Terry Stockman’s standard elite fixed now has it’s new Garm G3X panel up and running, so we met them at Urbana’s Grimes field, home of the MERFI fly-in, for breakfast. It’s far enough to be a somewhat interesting flight, a bit over 20 minutes, but close enough to be fairly stress free. I’ll […]
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Elizabeth had some folks in from out of town from her work staying the weekend, so she took them for a quick ride out and over King’s Island and around. They hadn’t flown in small aircraft before, so it was a treat for them. For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci […]
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One of the things you realize once your airplane is “done”, there are lots of people that you really, really want and mean to take for rides, but coordinating a time when you’re ready and able to go somewhere that they’re also available is much more complicated than it would seem. Happily we’re working our […]
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We made a run for it last night, with the possibility of weather for Sunday (low clouds at least, maybe some rain). I’ve posted more pictures though. We had a great time, staying in the big cabin again with Dave Nelson. We were sad that Ali couldn’t join us this year, but Bob Bittner stayed […]
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This was the first year that we were able to work the Mid-Eastern Regional Fly-In (MERFI) into our schedule. It’s a shame, since it’s so close to us, but that’s the deal. We took the short flight a bit after lunch time and arrived at just exactly the wrong moment – just as the Sport […]
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This weekend we decided to fly to Columbus to visit Elizabeth’s sister Amy and her boyfriend, and take them for rides. The flight to Columbus’ Bolton Field was one of the “longer” cross-country flights during my flight training, but is a very easy 20-25 minute flight in the Velocity (versus nearly an hour and half […]
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