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This blog and others like it represent the updates I’ve been sending to my teammates as I go through the training required to get a type rating in the Gulfstream G280 corporate jet. These are intended to help them understand … Continue reading →

This blog and others like it represent the updates I’ve been sending to my teammates as I go through the training required to get a type rating in the Gulfstream G280 corporate jet. These are intended to help them understand … Continue reading →

This blog and others like it represent the updates I’ve been sending to my teammates as I go through the training required to get a type rating in the Gulfstream G280 corporate jet. These are intended to help them understand … Continue reading →

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Good Morning Everyone. It’s Ground Hog Day – Again. N833DF is in the midst of having its engines taken off today. The crates are due in anytime, and they’ll be off to Penn Yan. Props are on the way to … Continue reading →

I’m am stressing about getting ready to leave home and train on a new jet. Bev’s mom is in failing health, which is a long term thing. Her siblings, for the most part, can’t be relied on to be there … Continue reading →

It is difficult to correlate myriad opinions, all of which you trust, when they disagree vehemently. Overhauling Engines: As you know from my previous writings, I have been running down a vibration problem in the engines that is annoying. It … Continue reading →

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I’ve been experiencing vibration from my engines dating back to 2015, just before the long downtime to deal with the gear bulkhead issue. I first became aware of it when the GoPro that was suspended from the ceiling could no … Continue reading →

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Synopsis: Deferred camera work; Autopilot repairs yield some unexpected benefits; and Inadequate flows cause holding troubles. Suck it up, buttercup:  The weather lately has been hot and humid, with constant cloud cover and the perpetual chance for thunderstorms. It hasn’t stopped … Continue reading →

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You already know I didn’t fly to Canada, but you didn’t know I had a friend, Mike, coming to town for his Flight Review the very next day I was to go. Mike hadn’t flown for a few years since … Continue reading →

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Please Note: The events I describe may not all be in the correct order, and the details not exactly as described. That is what happens when time marches on and only memory is relied on. For example, there may have … Continue reading →