flying
John + Dad + B-17 = Love
The family got together and bought John’s Dad a ride on the EAA B-17, “Aluminum Overcast”, for his 70th birthday this year. It took some convincing, but John finally decided that he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to ride along with him. The flight was scheduled for yesterday, out of the airport in Leesburg, VA. [...]
John + $$ = IFR
John took his IFR check-ride last week. It was a grueling four hours, but he passed!
That’s John with his instructor (JJ) and yes, a beer which is oh-so-carefully obscured by his brand new IFR certificate. JJ is the Chief Flight Instructor for the AOPA. He brought the camera, and the beer. And yes, that is [...]
Not So Lucke (Gate)
I completely forgot about this until this evening, when John asked me to take a picture of “LUCKE GATE” on the Washington Terminal Chart.
As we were fueling up the airplane on Sunday, John kept getting “diverted” notices from FlightAware.com, where we both have alerts set up based on our tail number (so I know where [...]
Great Weekend for a Fly
We left the house for the airport early on Friday afternoon, headed to John’s parents house for the weekend. Route 70 was jammed, so it took us forever to get to the airport. Once we were in the air, John wasn’t getting a response from Potomac for our ADIZ clearance code so we had to [...]
Air Travel Musings (and more)
I hopped a plane to Rochester, NY this morning for another business trip. My flight was pretty much the University of Rochester express — the vast majority of passengers were students from the UofR, headed home after the Thanksgiving holiday. I had overheard a student saying this to her mom, via cell phone:
“But [...]
Flying: Ocean City, NJ
John and I met Neil and Jack up at the Ocean City (NJ) airport for lunch today. We passed over Clearview as Neil was doing his preflight. Despite his speed advantage over us he didn’t catch up to us until just a few miles outside of our destination. Jack arrived a few [...]
Four Down, Sixty-Three to Go
John installed the ceiling fan in the sitting room today. It went off without a hitch for once. While going over the instructions for the wireless wall switch, he realized that it used an unusual battery size that we didn’t have on hand, so we were going to end up running [...]
