We had a nice, almost uneventful flight from EGHH via KATHY and GARMI to LFRC. Flying with Garmin G1000 cockpit is a whole new experience comparing to regular “steam” gauges. Ivan flown the outbound leg and he landed on deserted LFRC about 4pm local, the only a/c on the ground was PA28 from flying club [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pilot’
Checkout
On my way to EGHH for checkout flight in DA-40TDI as well as channel crossing flight to France to get used to seeing only water under my wings. If WX permits we will also take WI, a C172 to Shoreham later on.
The EuroTrip
After months of planning and conversations we have a go… Soon There was a few wonky points, like oh which aircraft to take, countless adverts skimmed, some tough decisions. After all, we decided that we are going with G-SLYN. Slightly underpowered diesel a/c which we know pretty well. However last Sunday we had bad news, [...]
flightComputer Update
I’ve updated the flight computer to version 1.0.2. It irons out issues with incorrect ground speed reported. If you have not seen version 1 before it also features dynamically updating fields, no more clicking “calculate” to get the numbers. I can’t remember if I’ve released before version with working distance to time converter, well it’s [...]
Wondering around AeroExpo 2011
So last Friday I’ve decided we are going to AeroExpo 2011 in Sywell ( some village in a middle of England ) . It was a bit smaller than 2010 in Wycombe and was missing Cessna. However Beechcraft was still there with their amazing aeroplanes, so was Diamond, as well as Piper ( why do [...]
EuroTrip plan
For long I wanted to do a coast to coast in USA or around Europe flying my self and enjoy the aviation. Since I’ve finished my PPL, another pilot Ivan Horsky and I were talking about doing the Euro Trip. It went through some highs ( like Ivan almost scored a sponsorship for the whole [...]
Short visit in the air
I’ve spent last Sunday travelling back to Bournemouth. Met my former PPL instructor Dean who is now working with BFC and we went back in the good old G-SLYN for BFC checkout and a refresher for me, as I haven’t flown since January. I really missed flying and it was a joy to do all [...]
