Coast to Coast Mission Tour – Day 6
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Coast to Coast Mission Tour – Day 7 & 8
June 18, 2019 When you absolutely have to be somewhere, drive… The forecast was for some isolated thunderstorms on Tuesday and scattered thunderstorms on Wednesday. I was fairly certain we would be able to fly to Accomack, VA on Tuesday, but was concerned we might not be able to fly back on Wednesday. Kathy had […]
Coast to Coast Mission Tour – Day 9
June 20, 2019 And the trip westbound begins… We woke up in the morning, I pulled out my laptop, and pulled up the weather. Immediately I knew that my plans for the northern route home were going to have to change. There were already storms right across our path along the Appalachian Mountains. The leg […]
Coast to Coast Mission Tour – Day 10
June 21, 2019 What a difference a day can make. The forecast showed that there would be about a one hour window just after sunrise that Key Field would be VFR before becoming IFR for a couple of hours. I did not want to get up that early, so didn’t set an alarm and still […]
Coast to Coast Mission Tour – Day 11
June 22, 2019 Getting close to wrapping up this incredible trip. For the first time in over a week we will be landing at a familiar airport. We had no desire to experience the heat from the end of yesterday’s flight so we got up early. The hotel said it had a continental breakfast, but […]
Coast to Coast Mission Tour – Day 12 (Last Leg)
June 23, 2019 We could have arrived at the airport earlier than we did, but according to the forecast that would have had us arriving in Fullerton before the morning marine layer had burned off. It was going to be about a 2 1/2 flight and I was planning on arriving between 10-10:30am. After saying […]
The Coast for Fun
It is fun to fly, and even more fun when the sights out the window are beautiful. One of my favorite little local flights is to head down to the coast near Dana Point, drop down to about 1,000′ and just cruise along. After working on some wiring that I hoped would fix the static […]
GTX335 Installed – 2020 Compliant, and Preventative Maintenance
Like many other plane owners I have been debating how I was going to comply with the FAA’s 2020 mandate to be equipped with ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast) Out. If you fly withing 30 nautical miles of a Bravo Class airport (for me that is everywhere I regularly fly, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Salt […]
Your Flight Has Been Delayed – Mechanical Reasons
Well, we were going to fly to Utah this weekend, but didn’t. The plan was to leave late Friday afternoon for a two hour flight to St George and then fly to Salt Lake on Saturday. The weather forecast earlier in the week was questionable so everything was ‘tentative.’ Flight plans were filed and a […]
Big Bear, Clouds, and Poppies
After missing a trip to Big Bear a couple weeks ago with a maintenance issue found during pre-flight (I need to write that up) we were able to fly there today to meet up with some other Mooniacs. (Mooney owners for those of you not familiar with the term) We took off into fairly clear […]
“The Green Hills…”
We have been having a great winter rain season here in Southern California and the hills are as green as can be. You only see them green for a couple months (if you’re lucky) and the rest of the year they are brown. A few years back they never even got green. So… when they […]
New Home – Fullerton KFUL
After two years at Corona (KAJO) it was time to move. Corona is a great little airport, but the hangar rent increases and lack of security, not to mention the 91 freeway traffic, convinced me to get on the waiting list for a hangar at Fullerton (KFUL). After about eight months on the list I […]
