“CAVU, baby.” That’s how I greeted my flying buddy, Mike, on Saturday morning when he answered his phone. “How about hopping in the Ercoupe and flying out for a $100 Hamburger?” We had talked about heading to York, Pennsylvania for lunch, but as I was planning the flight I came across two PIREPS saying that [...]
OK, flying the Ercoupe on a windy day is easy but getting the video “right” was not. But this is a first attempt and I used a cheap Flip Video Camera. Actually the camera does a nice job, but it did not like imaging the propeller. I actually shot 20 minutes of video of the [...]
I took Nancy once around the patch a couple hours ago. She says she will go again and work on getting used to it. I had planned on only once around and that’s what we did. I did fly a longer (than normal, for me) pattern to keep the turns more shallow and (fortunately) greased [...]
