Joe Davies Heritage and Blackbird Airparks
It was an overcast day (I don’t have my Instrument Rating yet) and my wife wanted to go see the California Poppy Preserve. We had flown over it once before three years ago but she wanted to be able to walk around, and with the stormy skies this would be a great Saturday to make […]
Hazel’s Flight
There are two types of people, those who look up every time they hear a plane and look to try and find it, and those that don’t even notice. Hazel, every time she hears a plane, is looking and pointing to the sky saying “Bampa!” We finally got a chance to take her and her […]
New Years Day – Post Annual
Today was a gorgeous day in Southern California, temps in the upper 60’s, clear skies, light winds, a great day for flying. Having just wrapped up the annual inspection I needed to take the plane up and make sure everything was operating properly before taking anyone flying. I had 16 gallons of fuel in the […]
Mooney Summit VII
The Mooney Summit is an annual retreat for 100 Mooney pilots and their spouses/significant others to provide type specific education and safety instruction to “better the breed.” The complete mission statement can be found here. Since learning about the Summit I have wanted to attend but I did not think it was going to fit […]
400 Hours!!
A Few Stats: 264 Flights 476 Landings 65.5 Hours Solo Flight (Apparently I don’t fly alone often) 297 Hours Cross-Country Time over 50nm (Lots of longer trips) 40 Hours of night flying 60 Airports landed at 38,800 Miles Flown (Approximately) 13 States landed in We flew to Arizona to visit family this weekend and on […]
Riverside Brunch, Nov 16, 2019
I was getting my logbook caught up and realized I’m at 395 hours, a little over three years from my check ride, it’s been almost three years since we bought N78878, and I need to do a much better job at sharing the wonder of General Aviation flight with people. I’ve taken Josh and Sarah […]
Harris Ranch – Oct 19, 2019
It has been a little over two years since the last fly-in at Harris Ranch and there have been all sorts of adventures, taking us all the way across the country and back. Michael Rodgers started up the West Coast Mooney Club and there was a lunch fly-in planned at Harris Ranch for Saturday. It […]
Labor Day – Riverside
Two weeks without flying, time to get in the air again. Typical to Southern California and early September, it’s hot outside, which means flying in the morning (or sweating a lot). We considered a quick hop over to Brackett (KPOC) but when I called Norm’s Hangar Restaurant this morning all I could get was a […]
Camarillo Air Show
A good friend started up the West Coast Mooney Club when he bought his M20F. We had a huge kickoff event in April of 2018 with a fly-in at Paso Robles where we ended up with 53 planes and 125 people. Michael made some arrangements with the Camarillo airport to get us a discount on […]
Made Possible by a Mooney
A little over three years ago the wheels were set in motion. Which wheels you ask? The ones that would make a lifelong dream come true. The catalysts: two grand-kids arriving one month apart, one 674 miles away and one 900 miles away, a good friend that has been flying for a very long time […]
Coast to Coast Mission Tour – Complete
Today at 10:15am we touched down in Fullerton (KFUL) completing our coast to coast tour. It was the trip of a lifetime. Over 5,000 miles flown, 10 new airports landed at, 7 new states landed in, and time with my boys that could never be duplicated. KFUL -> KIWA -> KPVW -> KPBF -> M01 […]
Coast to Coast Mission Tour – Day (Minus) 1
June 11, 2019 It had only been 16.95 hours since the last oil change and I typically change it around 40 hours, but we were planning on putting around 40 hours in on our cross country trip so I went ahead and changed the oil last week. The ground run after the oil change looked […]
