Finally, at long last (redundancy intentional), a lunch mission planned for six different dates was successful. The previous five attempts were all scrubbed because of family, life effects and plain old Mother Nature not playing nicely with her winds and precipitation. Bob is based in New York State along the Hudson Valley and I am [...]
The title of an old Gene Autry tune came to mind as I fired up the Ercoupe yesterday afternoon. In my younger days I did get to ride horseback occasionally - and, it’s true, you never really forget how, you just get a bit rusty. So, just how rusty was I likely to be with [...]
A couple evenings ago I received an email from Bob, a fellow pilot, who has an interesting Web site about his flying experiences, The Joy of Aviation. Bob has begun the intensive work (fun) required to become instrument rated. Admittedly, all flying is fun to some of us “hard cases,” but some of the training [...]
