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Holding short

A night flight from FME-SBY doesn’t happen, disappointing my neglected wife. I’ve decided to stop flying lessons until I return from my [...]

Out of my comfort zone (flying lesson 28)

Today was going to be a simple review of the basics with my CFI but as is sometimes the case, turned into more of an adventure.

To set the scene, I’m deploying 1 Apr for 100 days or so.  I just came back from 10 days of training, shots, and paperwork, missed a day of work [...]

Night flight (flying lesson 20)

Thanksgiving greetings from Williamsburg, VA.  We drove down Tuesday night and hit traffic that turned a 3 hour drive into a 6 hour drive.  More than once I commented, “if we had a plane, we could be up there cruising along at 120 mph instead of down here parked on I-95″.  If we had a [...]