December 14, 2024 – First Day of Cheyenne Initial Training
What a rush! My training in the Piper Cheyenne is complete and I’m back home preparing to fly passengers. The company is very safety minded, as am I, and is…
December 12, 2024 – Chilly Flights
I’ve had a number of flights in the last few weeks that I really enjoyed. While I have been waiting for Cheyenne training, I’m getting out there and practicing in…
November 20, 2024 – Flight #2 in the Cheyenne
Note: I am referring to a gentleman here using his first initial to respect his privacy. I was able to go fly this today, and it went pretty well. Actually,…
November 19, 2024 – TurboProps Procedures
Writing this post is also a way of studying the procedures I’ll be carrying out tomorrow. It might be interesting for you, and will certainly be a set of notes…
Nov 5, 2024 – Zero Squawks Achieved!
On November 5th, Todd up at Lancaster Avionics found an open spot to fit in my small job of fixing an intermittent right engine fuel flow. I believed, and have…
September 6, 2024 – Chasing Zero
Update to the Avidyne UTC Mismatch Issue: I’m still experiencing this on the first startup of the day. While having Avidyne review the logs, they found an issue with my…
August 30, 2024 – IFD550 Shortcomings
Avidyne Support is Excellent and the IFD550 is amazingly powerful. The upload and download design of this equipment is not very well thought out, however, and is a risk for…
July 13, 2024 – RTC Training in Tampa
With all the airplane drama dealing with the radio issues I’ve had, Bev and I decided to fly down to Tampa on Avelo; rent a car from Hertz; and fly…
June 4, 2024 – Lack of Testing / Installation issues
On my last post I used the phrase ‘all is well that ends well‘. I spoke that phrase prematurely, as I had some serious radio issues crop us to bite…
May 4th, 2024 – Putting out Fires
Let me first say that Life is Good! No Great! My wife and I feel like we’ve been putting out fires, one after the other for most of the past…