🌍Atlantic Crossing Part 4: The Long Way Home
After an unforgettable few days in Hamburg for the COPA European Migration, reality finally set in. It was time to turn west and begin the long journey home across the North Atlantic. Part 4 of the Atlantic Crossing series is where the adventure truly intensifies. Headwinds replace tailwinds, weather becomes a real factor again, and the […]
🌍 Crossing the Atlantic in a Kodiak 900 — Part 3: ATC Nuances, Deicing Decisions, and One Very Unusual Arrival
ATC Nuances, Deicing Decisions, and One Very Unusual Arrival One of the unexpected gifts of our eastbound Atlantic crossing was time. We built in extra days for weather and mechanical issues, but when everything went smoothly, it opened the door to something even better: exploring Europe from the cockpit. In this leg of the journey, […]
🌊 Crossing the Atlantic in a Kodiak 900 — Part 2: Greenland to Iceland and Beyond
The adventure continues! In Part 2 of our Atlantic crossing series, we take on one of the most exciting and challenging legs of the journey — flying from Greenland to Iceland, and then across to Scotland, officially completing our eastbound crossing. We start the day in Greenland, suiting up once again in those ever-fashionable Gumby […]
AOPA Summit Journey (Part 1)
My trek to AOPA is now well underway! The first leg of this trip was quite memorable. Since I was flying direct over the Gulf, I squeezed as much fuel as I could into the tanks (92 gals). Other than the eAPIS filing, the departure was just like any routine IFR trip anywhere in the […]
Preparing To Cross The Next Border (Mexico)
After my European excursion, I was looking forward to the next challenge, which will be crossing another border on the way to AOPA Summit in Palm Springs. Once again, I enlisted the help of Thierry and Guillaume at Air Journey to help with the route planning and logistics. Here is the routing, we came up […]
Spotting Castles and Crossing New Borders
After a couple of weeks of preparation, I was totally ready for my flight in Germany. While I had read up on the many nuances of flying here, I didn’t really look carefully enough at the map. I didn’t realize how close Baden-Baden was to France. In fact, my hotel was walking distance to the French […]
Things Falling Into Place
Sometimes things just have a way of falling into place… For me, this has recently been the case as I prepared for my annual recurrent training. Usually, I accomplish my recurrent training by attending a CPPP. But this year I decided to do it with a twist. Instead of attending the course in Lakeland or […]
Weekend in Grand Cayman
With great weather predicted for south FL and the Caribbean, this past weekend was the perfect opportunity to make a dent in the bucket list. I decided to fly to Grand Cayman. The flight was a straightforward IFR route mostly over water and directly over Cuba: I was a little nervous about the international flying […]
Bahamas Practice Flight
My international radio license arrived yesterday in the mail. Earlier in the week, I saw online that it had been approved. But didn’t get the official paper in the mail till yesterday. That meant that today was the day for the long overdue Bahamas flight!! It was really perfect timing because the plane is going […]