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I was recently asked to display some of my collection of WW1 era propellers at a local art show (Waitsfield, VT) with a theme of "Aloft" - mostly birds, butterflies, photography, paintings and anything aerial. I did this once before in another location, and we found that the pilots gave the...

I took a controller friend on a demonstration type flight of my C206 (N246VT) and let him fly the plane and work the radio, so we did a takeoff and landing in Burlington (BTV) where he works. I love the exchange that occurred after landing and taxiing back for another departure. He later sent...

Someone (evidently from the line crew) posted this brief video on Youtube today. I've had a great seasonal retirement gig for the past 14 years. I fly my Cub through Lincoln Gap in the Green Mountains to Sugarbush, where I hop into the Pawnee and tow gliders all day. I call it a gig, but I...

Sugarbush Soaring in Vermont is holding three youth camps this year, each one consisting of 9 campers (age 13 to 18) during the camp week. Three positions are held open for full or partial scholarships that come from a separate but related non-profit organization, Flight Experience for Youth...

A few days ago I took the C206 up for a flight after its annual, then happened to check FlightAware afterwards, which showed an erroneous but continuous flight path. I departed Middlebury (6B0), flew west to check some instruments then flew towards BTV (inside class C airspace) for two touch...

I've pondered this recently, and I've come to realize that most of my 7 logbooks contain "drudgery" that in and of itself just isn't that interesting, even to a pilot - lots of airport names, hours flown, weather conditions, etc., but only little tidbits of what those flights meant to me. It...

I had the weirdest sensation this year while towing gliders in the Pawnee. I had already done about thirty tows and on one of the last ones that day I had the strangest fleeting sensation that the plane wasn't there and that I was just floating in space in a seated position, with the cockpit...

I currently have a G500, GNS 750 and GNS 650 in my panel along with some other Garmin products. I recently tried to download the current database to SD cards and navigated through the options all the way to the final step (which shows the expired databases on those three devices) but couldn't...

There's lots of verbiage that has crept into radio communications, and they seem to update and eventually go away. Two of the more recent ones that seem annoying to me are "last call" and the use of "XXX traffic" at the end of a self announce when approaching the airport. I always thought the...

Anyone know of an approved Pawnee elevator for sale? One of ours is no longer airworthy.

The day before yesterday after 25 glider tows in the Pawnee, we paused for showers moving our way that I could see on the previous tow. Radar was showing a fairly rapid buildup so we scrambled to get five gliders into their hangars or secure tie-downs. I taxied to the Pawnee to its hangar and...

This probably doesn't apply for most people, but for those who fly hand-propped aircraft I thought I'd share this system of chocks I made years ago. They allow you to prop the plane and get into it with the chocks in place then safely remove them once settled. They're easily made with plywood...

I do and started about almost 50 years ago, owning around 100 of them over the years but now down to about 20 rare WW1 and pre-WW1 era props in original condition. Years ago on the advice from the propulsion curator at the National Air and Space Museum I created a web site (woodenpropeller.com)...

In this hypothetical example two planes are of similar make/model, both approaching to land to the south and both are roughly a mile or so from the airport at pattern altitude with "A" on a downwind in the left hand pattern. Who has the ROW and what does the other one do? One of them is NORDO.

I don't know if this has been posted already, as it showed up on my Facebook page today. Two Cubs collided in Novemeber, 2020, at Weslaco, Texas. One pilot sustained minor injuries and one sustained substantial injuries, but the photos are astounding considering that both survived. I'm...

So the FAA site says to keep a copy of your Basic Med documents with your logbook. AOPA hints that you just need to have them available. I still use a paper logbook, partly because I'm on my seventh one and don't really need the log much anymore, except for compliance with the regs. Last year...

This was a perfect windsock the day before. :) Middlebury, Vermont.

Not that I won't do all the necessary DCA SFRA stuff on this upcoming flight (because I'm going through it anyway) but I'm curious how people based at Hagerstown (KHGR) deal with their location basically right on the 60 nm ring, or possibly technically just outside of it. I've landed at...

Does anyone happen to know the current number of pilots who are qualified under Basic Med? (I'm just updating a lecture on medical certification.) The most recent number I can find is 54,000, but I'm not sure when that occurred.

Has anyone fully deciphered the recent amendment to the SFAR issued a few months ago that extended eligibility for medical and flight currency, including a flight review? With respect to a flight review it was clear that if a flight review was due in March, April, or May you would remain...