A Sunday Afternoon
My last flight was a week ago, just over to Riverside to get some fuel and some time in the air. My wonderful wife was game to come along even though it would just be about 15 minutes each way. It was late afternoon, the air was smooth, and westbound on the way back to […]
Negative Ghostrider, the Pattern is Full
The Friday after Thanksgiving was windy. It wasn’t “terrible” and was definitely flyable. I have flown in much stronger winds, and if I was planning to go somewhere like Arizona or Utah to see family I would have flown, it just would have been bumpy until we got above probably around 5-6,000 feet. However, to […]
You Fly, We’ll Buy
It goes without saying, 2020 has been a crazy year. “Mostly” caught up on things at work I took Wednesday off for I think 5th day off this year. We caught up on some things at the house and headed to the airport to fly somewhere for lunch. As we pulled through the gate I […]
Chasing the Sun
In 1979 I was seven years old when the Muppet Movie came out and I loved it. Among all the songs there was “Movin’ Right Along” that they sang as they launched out on their road trip and towards the end of the song Fozzie Bear sings “Hey, I’ve never seen the sun come up […]
Phoenix and back in a day… It’s for the dogs.
I know what you are thinking. Who would fly to Phoenix, actually Chandler (KCHD), from SoCal and back in a day, and why? Well, it was literally for the dogs, two of them to be precise. Keep reading, and by the end, just like a Paul Harvey broadcast, you will know “the rest of the […]
West Coast Mooney Club 2020 Summer Conference and Retreat
Back in February 2018 we were trying to organize a fly-in for the California Mooney owners. After a fun fly-in to Harris Ranch in May 2017 there was a long dry spell. Enter Phil Corman and Michael Rodgers. Phil offered to host a fly-in for “a few” Mooney’s in Paso Robles which turned into a […]
Mooney’s are for Travelling
**A note: These flights are from June/July 2017. The post was mostly written three years ago and just recently polished up and the slides and video put together. I hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane. We bought the Mooney to go places, and we have been going places… I have a new high […]
Two $100 Burger Runs in a Day
Ok, so to be honest, it wasn’t two $100 Burger Runs. I only had a burger on the second run, the first one was for breakfast… A favorite past-time for pilots is to hop in the plane and head to a neighboring airport to have a meal and then fly back. When you add up […]
4th of July Flight
I took a “Social Distancing” flight along the Orange County coast on the 4th of July. The State Beaches were closed and were deserted, a very odd sight to see on the 4th of July. This is my first attempt at a video including in-cockpit radio recordings. Doing the editing was a long, learning experience, […]
New Transponder? Crackling/Popping in Your Headset?
Are you one of the many who had to upgrade their transponder to be ADS-B compliant? Do you hear a crackling/popping sound in your headset now? It just might be the location of your transponder antenna. I was flying around with an old Narco AT-150 transponder. It had served me well for almost three years […]
Window Tinting
*** Updated 06/12/2020 with pictures of the windshield brow, scroll down for those pics. Here we are in the middle of the “Dog Days of Summer” which makes for some high temps inside the cabin. I made a post a little while back about building a home-made AC Unit which helps tremendously. Another thing that I […]
Flying – Coupon Style
Who has heard the line, “Look how much money I saved buying this!”? Everybody have their hand in the air? I have heard it, and am guilty of using it myself… Everyone who owns a plane knows that you are not saving money, so how does that relate to flying you ask? Well… Last Saturday […]
