by Matt | Feb 7, 2012 | Blog, Fun Flying, Lessons, Multimedia, Videos
Depending on the phase of flight, a stiff headwind can hurt or it can really help. In cruise, you’re hoping and praying that the wind doesn’t fight you too much. You get too much headwind and you might as well be flying backward (maybe you are). That same...
by Matt | Feb 6, 2012 | Blog, Fun Flying, Videos
I know this an advert for Breitling, you can’t really miss it, but the existence of some nice P-51 flying is more than enough to make this worth the 3 minutes it will take to watch it. Anyway, that’s really all I have today. Feel free to check out the...
by Matt | Feb 3, 2012 | Aircraft, Blog, Lessons
I just saw the following story: Micron CEO Appleton dies in plane crash. According to the article, if they got their story straight, his plane was on fire when, based on ATC recordings, he stated his intentions to turn back just before crashing. Unfortunately, it...
by Matt | Jan 30, 2012 | Aircraft, Blog, Videos
When I was a kid, my grandmother used to take me to the airport to watch planes and to airshows. A consequence of this was that I got pretty good at identifying aircraft. This was before September 11th, 2001, so airports were much more accessible than they are today....
by Matt | Jan 23, 2012 | Blog, Videos
Did you ever have a model train set? I had a couple, but my brother and I always enjoyed trying to get the trains to fly off the tracks more than we enjoyed building. Still, I can appreciate the work that goes in to creating detailed dioramas. Sometimes people put in...
