Planning Your Alternates
You plan to fly Portland to North Bend the next morning. You've been watching the weather at North Bend and are pretty comfortable you can get in without the need to file an alternate. You base this information...
Planning Cross Country Flight into IFR Part 1
Cross Country Flight
In this part one of a three part cross country flight planning series, you will walk through a large cross country trip over that encompoasses some strong planning. You will learn about cr...
The Day That changed My Flight Planning Forever – Icing at FL180
Flight Level 180
We had just finished an amazing trip of business, family and food, typical to a Vegas anything trip.
We were level at FL180 on our flight home from Las Vegas for about 1.2 hours when we saw...
4.4
Black Hole Airport VFR at Night
Recently I had the opportunity to fly with a very talented pilot who was finishing up his commercial license. In order for a student to satisfy the requirements for their commercial license. They must complete ...
4.1
Flying the Cessna 414
I am often asked. How did you like owning a Twin Cessna? In this article, I will share with you the in's and out's of owning and operating this legendary airplane.
Cessna produced two models of Twin Cessna ...
Circle To Land – Danger Will Robinson
Circle To Land - Danger Will Robinson
Today started out grand. You woke up at 7:30am to finalize your plans for today's long cross country. You checked weather last night and everything looked like it is goi...
Commercial IFR Multi Engine Checkride Prep
During my commercial multi training I had a number of opportunities to fly a seneca II in some solid IMC conditions. The morning of this particular flight was toward the end of my training and just prior to my...