It sounds like I have a decent shot at landing a summer internship with that famous four letter aviation association you’ve probably heard of. You know, the one that has more than 400,000 members and represents many of the pilots and aircraft owners in the country.
As a requirement for my communication degree from college, […]
I had a unique flying experience last night…
A friend of mine (Keri) had a friend visiting her this week. This friend of Keri’s came all the way over from Norway to hang out for a while. His name is Joar. That’s pronounced like “You are” in case you’re like me and aren’t […]
I finally took my 140 up again yesterday after not flying it for nearly a month.
Why the downtime? Aside from getting busy with work and school, my plane was in the shop for a couple weeks.
It all started when I decided to upgrade my electrical system and convert all the fuses over to circuit […]
I apologize for my last few blogs being pure text. Text is boring. To make up for it, I’ve decided to go the other direction with this blog and post a video. A friend and I took my plane out to a little country airport in the middle of nowhere and had […]
While working at my skydiving job this afternoon, the boss caught me between loads and complimented me on how pleased he’d been with my work for him.
I was flattered and a bit surprised. I didn’t think I’d done anything out of the ordinary for him.
What surprised me most, however, was the reason for the compliment. […]
The other night I met a guy who is learning to fly near me. Really nice guy, almost ready for his private pilot checkride.
I forget how it got brought up, but he started talking to me about my pay rate for freelance flight instructing. When I told him I charge $45/hour, he bluntly told me […]
The strangest thought hit me yesterday. As I sat at my computer, aimlessly checking my e-mail and reading the forums at Jetcareers.com, I thought, “I wonder if I meet the minimums for humanitarian flying?”
I have no idea where the thought came from. I pulled up Google and started searching for information on companies that do […]
I just realized I wrote a blog several weeks ago, but never posted it. I wrote this in the Dallas airport while waiting for my flight to Seattle when I was traveling from Lincoln, Nebraska back to Walla Walla. I didn’t have internet at the time, then I got busy flying my plane across the […]
Happy Labor Day everyone.
I just wanted to say that, contrary to what my blog may look like, I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth. I’ve just been without internet access for a few weeks, as well as too busy to post anything even when I finally set up internet access at my house.
I […]
Last night I went out to the airport to clean my plane’s windshield and get the bugs off the leading edges of the wings.
I ran in to a friend who owns a Sonex experimental kit-built aircraft. Here is his plane:
We had talked in the past about the Sonex’s features and how it fits a lot […]