Quite a few years ago, I was flying my Mooney on the short hop from San Antonio International Airport to Kerrville Municipal Airport. It was a typically hot, humid, and bumpy day in Texas. Back then there was an afternoon airline service from San Antonio to Austin, which was probably just a 15-minute flight at […]
A few years ago, I was flying to Henderson, Nevada, in our Cessna T206H with my wife, two daughters and one of their friends. During the evening descent, my passengers were talking excitedly about the Colorado River rafting trip we were to embark on the next day and pointing out the sights and brightening lights […]
Cirrus Certifies SR10 Trainer Cirrus has obtained U.S. type certification for a new trainer but it doesn’t seem likely it will produce the SR10 in the U.S. anytime soon. The type certificate was filed in April of 2023 but Cirrus spokeswoman Ivey McIver told AVweb the company has not pursued a production certificate, largely because […]
Mood Music for Sim Challenge I always enjoy your Sim Challenges and often punish my students by loading them up in our sim. I particularly like the trip around Hawaii in August’s “Island Hoping [SIC].” In fact, to set the mood for this challenge with my students, I had some Hawaiian music playing in the […]
New LSA Rules Coming The FAA proposed new rules governing the approval and operation of light sport aircraft. The initiative has been in the works for more than 10 years with a move away from the current specifications-based qualifications. “Changing the limitations of LSAs from an arbitrary weight to performance-based metrics will allow for larger […]
While I was flying into Boeing Field to pick up my Angel Flight passengers, I was on the ILS for 32L, which is a long (10,000 feet) runway. I was meeting my passengers at an FBO off the north end of 32R, which is a much shorter runway (3700 feet) roughly aligned at the north […]
