I can’t believe it, but an entire year nearly slipped by before I wrote up one of our criss-crossings (two of our crossings!) of the country. Part of the problem is that I was posting photographs from the trip along the way and that sated some of our usual desire to get the trip documented [...]
How exciting! My first article for Plane & Pilot magazine is up on their website. It will be in the physical magazine on August 10th. Obviously, I already wrote here on the blog about the wonders of the iPad as an electronic flight bag, but it was fun to write blurbs for a bunch of [...]
We have just spent the night at the Days Inn in Liberal, Kansas. This was a really nice FBO, super-friendly and gave us a car for the night. We hopped from Santa Monica, California to Sedona, Arizona. On to Santa Fe, New Mexico and then here for the night. We are hoping to make the [...]
This is technical, about the avionics in the airplane. Avionics are the electronic instruments in the plane, some of which sample air pressure in the pitot-static system, or sense the earth’s electromagnetic field. The very first airplanes only had a compass mounted on the panel and a spring-loaded device to suggest the airspeed. N971RD is [...]
This is about as cool as technology gets. For now, I guess. One of the people that I took flying with me was the father of a friend of mine. Tom flies a lot of interesting planes just sitting in the right seat. Antique warbirds and Civil Air Patrol planes. One of the things he [...]
I love when reality final catches up with my future. Apple and Foreflight have delivered the Electronic Flight Bag that I was waiting for ever since I bought my first NACO book of instrument approach plates. Why was I dragging around all this paper? Why was I sitting in the run up area flipping through [...]
Sunday, August 23 KSPI – KRVS – KBGD – KABQ Part of the lost trip report. Nell is great at finding us something interesting where we are. Bob and I flew in and out of Springfield, Illinois and, other than debating a visit to the Lincoln museum, saw nothing but the Outback Steakhouse. I know, [...]
Monday, August 24 KABQ – KDVT – KSMO Part of the lost trip report. The last day was easy flying. I think we all slept well, but I don’t know because I stumbled into dreamland, tripped over something, and came to eight hours later. The breakfast at the hotel was not horrific and we headed [...]