I would request that a fresh pair of skivvies be available upon landing.

(Written on 2018年 07月 14日)(Permalink)

Not in our lifetime.

(Written on 2018年 07月 06日)(Permalink)

I almost fell asleep reading the story. Smoke announced, 172, land.

(Written on 2017年 02月 10日)(Permalink)

Real Easy - Transfer the Warthogs to Army Aviation. Army Aviation has more pilots than the Air Force anyway.

(Written on 2014年 12月 05日)(Permalink)

I'll stick with the dumb-ass comments. I commuted Lake Geneva,WI to MDW every weekday for three years. The main rule: Check weather and get some pireps before taking off. A Cessna 172 doesn't like ice and either do I. I have 200 actual instrument hours, but still worried a lot about weather. If it looked like thunderstorms or icing we'd drive to the train station and get to work at 11 AM instead of 8:30. One day we I knew we had stretched it a little too much when we called a left downwind for 31L and the tower asked us to squawk ident. No IFR light on the tower. I bet my companion it would be turned on as we landed. It was and I was the dumb-ass that day.

(Written on 2014年 11月 21日)(Permalink)

I spent a lot of hours flying my Cessna 310 and later my Mooney over the Dakotas,Montana,Minnesota and the UP. I was always staying as far away from the oil-burner routes as possible.

(Written on 2014年 11月 21日)(Permalink)

I did this in 1975 with my Skyhawk. I was dropping off a charter. Enjoyable, but control kept yelling for more speed. That made sense,.

(Written on 2014年 10月 24日)(Permalink)

Just like flying my Lake Buccaneer LA-400. Well, almost LOL!

(Written on 2014年 01月 26日)(Permalink)

I wish I had known about saying the words unable during an IFR approach to a small Midwest Airport. I was stuck in a cloud layer abut 1,000 feet thick and was picking up ice on my trusty Cessna 172. I explained my icing situation to Center and asked for a 500 foot higher or lower path and I was declined. The controller kept asking if I was declaring an emergency but would not let me deviate. When I finally started the approach some ice stared coming off and when I landed )at full power) the rest of the ice came off. I have never been so scared in my life. I have rethought that approach many time and wish I had told the controller I was changing altitude in spite of his instructions. I was the only traffic at that airport. On the other end of the scale, I was IFR from Fargo to Eau Claire at 11PM at night and my engine failed. I told the controller my engine had quit and wouldn't restart and, after asking my glide parameters and other pertinent questions, in was what seemed lik

(Written on 2013年 11月 15日)(Permalink)

What a great field Meigs was. I loved flying in there at sunset. The beautiful skyline of Chicago. The only downside was the wave coming off of McCormack Place with a strong West wind and landing North.

(Written on 2013年 09月 27日)(Permalink)