Practice Short field landing before leaving 8S5 - Day VFR trip with Dana to Mountain Air at 4400 MSL 2900ft rwy, 2 go-arounds for 1st time landing. Too high on first approach, 3rd time was a charm
VFR Trip to Atlanta with Jimmy Regan and Pierre to see Thrashers game - Had trouble finding PDK at night went passed 20L and then ATC brought us in on 20R - Should have used a Appr on the GPS to show extended centerline from FAF - Signature at PDK gave us two free tickets to game - Flew back to 8S5 before fog set-in
VFR with Joe to 50J for fuel - then to JZI for ILS approches 2x ILS Rwy 9, IAP to misses and repeat - Touch and Go on Rwy 4, back to 8S5 - Joe Kramer - Safety Pilot
Took Dana and Boys to Ocracoke for day trip - Nice flight and great place for day trip - took photos of sveral airports - Went to Howards Pub for Lunch - Bike Riding - Beach
VFR - Pick up Mom and Jack in Charlotte - Wilson Flight Service - To CLT appr didnt hand me to Tower early enough on final - 1st trip into Class B airspace
VFR trip with Zimmy to Orange Bowl in Miami - Landed at TMB 27L Spot Landing - Mazda MPV rental - Stayed at the Avalon in South Beach - VFR Following the whole way
VFR to Interstate Turbine Service Center at CHS - 15kts winds, gusting to 20 at CHS - Headwind landing on rwy21 spot on - Light to Mod turb at 600 feet
CSIP insurance checkout with Mike Wachey from Aero Atlanta - Mike flew to CHS in a 172SP - Ground work on 22 systems and 1.3 in flight going over procedures, engine out, no flap landings etc...
VFR to SRQ with Andre via Flight following - worked on LOP procedures at 9500 feet - FF levels were low - Spot Landing at SRQ - return to CHS with JK - LOP at 9500 with 12 gal FF
CHS to LRO with 15 know x-wind at LRO- then VFR flight to Hurricanes Hockey game with Matt Epstein, Paul, and Matt's Son - Dinner at Damons - Carolina Vs Buffalo - Perfect VFR night for flying on way back - Worked on LOP engine management
Trip to NY with Joe and Boys, VFR at 9500ft with 20 knot headwind, 3 hours 51 minutes to HPN - flight to Groton at night to visit Mohegan Sun, stayed at Best Western, lost $600 - Sim IFR, Joe K, Safety Pilot
VFR from GRO topick up Dad at DXR - VFR to Lake Placid, lunch and scenic flight over Whiteface - back to DXR to pick up JK - VFR to GRO to Mohegan Sun - back to HPN
VFR to pick up Dad to go to Quassy Amusement park to see boys, back to DXR for Drop off - to HPN and then back to CHS - Bumpy day with great x-wind landings - 3hr 11 minutes back to CHS Night VFR with 25 knot tailwinds - JK Safety Pilot during Simulated IFR
VFR to CHS for maintanance - 1st flight for new engine so extra caution was needed - High speed taxi and full power run-ups were completed to look for any problems - Wake turbulence vector behinf C17 at CHS
VFR with Dana and the boys to Dollywood #2 - Gusty landing with decent x-wind component, on 2nd touch bad nosewheel shimmy occured all the way until full-stop - back to LRO with 8kt x-wind and nosewheel was fine after extended wheely
Tough VFR day to get to SRQ - Mid Florida had low level broken layer and had to stop in Hernando Co. to wait - SRQ went MFVR and I decided to try and get in, but while on approach to Rwy 14 at SRQ Tampa informed me that SRQ went IFR - Amended destination to VNC even though I could see SRQ from the coast - Upon landing at Venice, the Linemen (Bill) made a call to SRQ tower and ask for VFR staging into SRQ from VNC - I quickly left VNC & contacted SRQ tower direct and allowed visual for runway 4 - Tower put me in as a Helo to avoid any issues with Tampa - Very interesting and educational trip
VFR to GYH with boys for Tae-kwan-do tourni - A busy convective day throughour SC and we had to go around numerous cells - Left GYH during a break in the cells and proceeded to use XM weather to avoid busy areas - 200kts over the ground on the way back - Worked with ATC to avoid and issues
Burn of fuel before flight to RDU - VFR flight with JR, Matt Kelly, and Pierre to the Stanley Cup finals game 1 in Raleigh. Avoid isolated storms via XM, landed on 32 at RDU - Night flight back to RDU - No skywatch on way home, error 429 on the 430's
VFR to PDK to 57th Fighter brunch with Tracy and Jim, Pick up at Gwinnette - Squaks, MFD flickering began on flight from LZU to PDK and continued all afternoon, #4 CHT was reading yellow and red, Transponder went down shortly
VFR to RDU to watch Game 5 of Finals with Jimmy R, Andrew Miller, and Brett - MVFR conditions on way to RDU following tropical depression Alberta - Night VFR return - Spot Landing
