Two Years of Flying
Two years ago today I took my first flight. It was the beginning of a childhood dream come true. Since then I received my Private Pilot License and bought a Mooney. What do two years of flying look like? Total Flight Time: 242.0 Mooney Hours: […]
Redlands For Fun
I had to send a couple of instruments out for overhaul. For about a year now my Attitude Indicator (not he one that shows my mood but the one in the panel) has been dying a slow death. The bearings have been making noise after shutdown for over a year now and recently it has […]
Her First Flight
Not just her first flight in a small plane, it was her first flight in a plane of any kind… Every now and then I have a friend that will say something like “If you ever need someone to go fly with you let me know,” or this one “Saw your recent post on Facebook […]
If you build it, they will come… KPRB Fly-In
So goes the famous line from “Field of Dreams.” What does that have to do with a Mooney fly-in? Allow me to explain… About a year ago we had a fly-in at Harris Ranch. It was my first fly-in and it was a lot of fun. This was followed by an unsuccessful attempt to put […]
Hemet at Night
It isn’t good for an aircraft engine to sit for too long without running, and it probably isn’t good for pilots to sit too long without flying either… Keeping those two things in mind I wanted to get out and back in the air, it had been about 10 days since the last time I […]
Salt River “Flightseeing”
When we were visiting family back in Arizona at the end of January I finally took my dad up flying in the Mooney. I planned what should be a fun little ‘flightseeing’ trip. We would depart north from Chandler (KCHD) staying under the 2,700′ shelf of PHX’s Bravo, then turn East and fly up the […]
Jenny – PilotsnPaws – AZ to SoCal along with some bumpy air
Friday, January 26th The Mooney Time Machine means I can work most of a day in Southern California and be at dinner at my parents house in Arizona for dinner, amazing. The original plan was to fly out Saturday morning but my son didn’t have school Friday, so after checking the weather and sunset times […]
Boring Holes in the Sky at Sunset
Life has been busy… We had plans to fly to St. George, UT today for a day trip but the weather wasn’t going to cooperate. There was a storm that moved in and although it looked like the ceilings might have been high enough to get in and out, there were rain showers forecast and […]
No Brake Lights at 8,500′
You may be asking yourself what I am referring to in the title. Of course there are no brake lights at 8,500′ in the air. Don’t worry, I’ll get to that eventually, but first I need to tell you about some of the most fun I have had flying in quite awhile. Despite wanting to […]
Thomas – PilotsnPaws – Stockton CA to Phoenix AZ
As I am forever looking for excuses to fly, I registered on the PilotsnPaws website a few months ago. It is a very worthwhile organization that works to get dogs out of shelters and into rescues. (I would like to do Angel Flights but I need 250 hours Pilot in Command and I’m not there yet.) […]
Palomar for Breakfast
The last time I flew was two weeks ago, and I really wanted to get back up in the air. The weather was going to be semi cooperative Saturday so a trip was planned to Palomar. Last time I tried to get there for breakfast I wasn’t successful and had to divert to French Valley […]
Minor Maintenance
It has been a few weeks since I have written, but there has been some flying, and work done on the plane. On September 30th I took her up to run the right tank dry. The sump valve under the wing has needed to be replaced for quite some time and after my last flight […]
