Maintenance Update / Florida Trip 2/1/12
Georgetown Aero did a great job fitting in a flap adjustment, new fuel door fastener, adjusted nacelle caps, and of course – ordering and replacing that weak AI. I was…
Difficult Maintenance Decisions – Weak Attitude Indicator
My attitude indicator showed signs during the last three flights of spinning up and erecting slowly. Just last week when I came home from Florida, the AI took 10 minutes…
Flight to Owen’s World
Bev and I slept late today. We had dinner last night with Phil and Marguerite at the Riverfront. This morning, we took our good ole time waking up, and decided…
Looking for a weather solution for the wife’s boat
Looking for suggestions. I need an inexpensive weather device that will support an XM Nexrad service similar to what I have on the airplanes (Garmin 496). Most of the similar…
2012-01-22 Winter Instrument Flight
Flew home from Punta Gorda, FL yesterday after three wonderful days (or parts thereof) in 80+ degree weather. Absolutely beautiful. Found a really wonderful location with a 70’s house that…
January 21, 2012: Punta Gorda Fur Ball
Arriving at Punta Gorda, I asked a few times for the GPS22 approach. They weren’t responding to me as I got closer to the approach IAF, until I sailed passed…
Simplified Filing
Nothing new for many, but watching what others were doing led me to take a different approach to filing with a fast airplane. Charles and I took a day off…
50 Hr Maintenance
In preparation for a Florida trip later this week, N833DF is in for oil change and recurring AD compliance inspections. Only unexpected squawk is that the rotating beacon / belly…
Success! New Glideslope Light
Ordered a new blue replacement indicator light to replace the green one that came with the new glideslope computer. The later was identical to my single gear down and locked…
Angel Flight – Saturday, Jan 14th, 2012
Mission: Move a female passenger from Boston to Wings Field down to Greensboro, NC to somewhere in South Georgia. There were three legs to this mission, and mine was the…