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Excerpt from a brief email conversation today regarding Chip, my dad’s C172 airplane, and my friend, who flew it: Me: How’d Chip do today? Get some good flight time for your logbook? Friend: Chip did great. I added air to the tires. Took it up to 10,500. Me: Wow! 10,500! Is that even legal in …

I was due for my biennial flight review in October 2010. “I’m afraid I’m going to flunk!” I said repeatedly to my flight instructor friend. “It’s not a test. You can’t flunk. You don’t lose your certificate,” he said. He is completely used to my over-zealous concern with flunking things. Just about all of the …

In order to best illustrate the security protocol at the local airport, of which I have been freshly renewed as a private pilot and more, I have created a video.

I attempted to attend one of AOPA’s very good webinars that was scheduled for this evening. I figured learning about thunderstorms would be pretty good, since this area of the country is prone to volatile weather in the summer. There’s no quicker way to a coffin, insurance mess, comprehensive understanding of both prayer and gravity, or …

Fly-in breakfasts at airports tend to smell like av gas and maple syrup. This morning I flew across the river to Mandan’s fly-in event in my Cherokee… Jeep Cherokee, that is, and not Piper. My dad’s airplane hasn’t been here since last fall. The weather wasn’t too bad. There were some clouds and overcast moments, but …