Making Time for Flying

I was in Canberra recently and came across this article on the front page of the local Canberra Times : The nose wheel of a Cessna 182 fell...

Near the end of last year we moved to Sydney, about 1000km down the Pacific Highway from Brisbane. New place, new job, and very little time...

This is the third and final post on my PPL checkride last November, previous posts can be found here and here . Promised, I will go back so...

After taking-off on 18 at Maroochydore, I wrote down our departure time and made a right-hand turn onto the heading which, given the forecas...

So the big day of the final PPL test finally came to pass, 582 days after my first flying lesson. And it was a... success! I’m happy to repo...

Before starting up in Goondiwindi for the last leg of Nav7 I didn't forget to turn the GPS logger back on, so this post will be illustr...

A friend I took on a local flight recently recorded a video of the engine start-up sequence for the Cessna 172SP. It's the regular start...

Remember how a few things went well but how I also busted controlled airspace on Nav 6 last May? As a logical consequence, it was decided ...

The first leg of Nav5 took us from Redcliffe to Gold Coast through the Brisbane Class C airspace. I think I talked to more controllers in th...

Nav4 was my first solo nav. It was very enjoyable, very rewarding and, of course, amazingly quiet in the cockpit. I showed up at the club br...

One week after Nav3 was cut short due to weather , I went with Lee in VH-SPQ to cover the remaining bits, i.e. lost procedures and class D a...