Back To Normal IFR (Sort Of)
The past 2 weeks have been quite an unusual flight pattern for me. No X-Countries, No IFR or VFR flight plans, not even enough altitude to require oxygen! No the plane was NOT grounded… In fact, I had numerous flights. But they were all short “flight-seeing” journeys that gave me the chance to share the […]
Heading Home VFR
Today the weather in Houston was not bad… But the weather forecast along my route home and in FL was downright ugly. Fortunately, PIREPS showed a lot of the weather did not have very high tops along my route. So my plan was to depart VFR, climb up to 17.5k and if needed get an […]
Ugly Weather (Perfect Day to Fly!)
Today was expected to be a dreary weather day in the whole state of Florida due to a large “cold front” that was passing through. Today was definitely NOT a skywriting day. But what a great day for some recurrent flight training in actual IMC! I had planned a training day with Jason Schappert of […]
Trip To Chicago
This week I had some meetings in Chicago and it gave me a great excuse to put the Cirrus and R9 to the test and land a new state at the same time 🙂 My planned route was fairly simple: KVDF>CTY>KSYI (Fuel Stop) > KDPA. Weather forecast was not very cooperative. (But still safely within […]