Making Time for Flying

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...

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...

Nav7 is the last solo nav before the PPL pre-test and test. Last chance to fix bad habits before it's too late. The plan was to go from ...

I try to always have my camera with me when I come near an airport. Good blogging material may pop out of nowhere and be gone in an instant....

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 ...

Relating what happened to me on Nav6 is going to take more than one post. It’s not that this flight was any longer than the previous ones. I...

Aviatrix just recently posted a story about towing airplanes with the hand brake on, and how this could result in a nasty flat patch on th...

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...