Do I fit this airplane? (perhaps some day) What kind of airplane are you? It’s been said that a dog owner usually looks and resembles traits of their animal counter part. It got me thinking, that if it works with dog owners maybe its translatable to aircraft owners or aviators. Here is the set up, close your eyes […]
Category: General Flying
Are you a plain cheesecake pilot?
What do all of these things in the title represent? They are things that I have yet to do. Other than the 2 hours I have in a Piper Cub (tail wheel), I have never been in a helicopter, never done anything more than a stall in an airplane, and haven’t gotten a tail wheel […]
Addicted to Helicopters
It may be the good ol saying “You always want what yah cant have”. But ever since I started flying airplanes, I have wanted to try helicopters out as well. I usually start day dreaming when ever I see a helicopter, about how I would love to get my copter rating. I then come back […]
Hangar Flying Podcast
As a blogger, I also find a lot of enjoyment in Aviation podcasts. When ever I find myself about to make a hour or longer trip somewhere I usually manage to download a podcast episode onto my iPhone to listen to in the car. The most recent podcast I like to listen to is the […]
Shooting the breeze (pun intended)
I arrived at the airport around 2:30pm this after noon to get an hour lesson in with my instructor on the simulator. Sadly, thats not what happened today. You see for a couple months our Redbird Flight Simulator has been acting up and not wanting to ever work right. One day it will be the […]
Charts Sales
I am pondering opening a mini pilot store on this site, for aviation charts and some general aviation good. If your interested in buying charts on here let me know I could use some feedback. I used to sell charts on eBay and quickly learned that is not the place to sell charts. I guess […]
Blimp o Mania
MetLife Blimp photo by: Steven Roemerman With the Memorial Golf tournament (a PGA Golf Tournement) coming up this Thursday, I will get to go down to Columbus, OH and watch the opening day of the 4 day tournament this year. I thought this was a perfect opportunity to clash my two main loves […]
If only Ice Pilots NWT was in the USA
Ice Pilots NWT is a Canadian show featuring the brave and adventurous airline Buffalo Airways. Joe McBryan is the owner and founder of Buffalo Airways, his fleet consists of old piston pounders. Including the DC-3, DC-4,the Electra, and the C-46 aircraft. The show portrays the daily life of the airline, while simultaneously battling with weather […]
Pilot My-Cast vs. ForeFlight iPhone Apps
I was looking at aviation apps for my iPhone recently and too many peoples surprise there a good amount of them to try out. Of course many pilots have heard of the more popular ForeFlight app for the iPhone/iPad but today I am going to talk about a similar one, The Garmin Pilot My-Cast Weather and […]
To fly or not to fly… that is the question
In Ohio lately we have had rain like no other, with it raining a some 25 out of 30 days in April, its almost on track to do it again in May! With that being said us Private Pilots have trouble finding time to log some quality flight time in weather conditions like these. Today […]