Matthew

The best way to prepare for a flight to a new area: Is the weather good? Is the airplane good? Is the fuel level good? Am I good? Fly...

The way forward for me (us) was to learn the I have a life, she has a life, and we have a life together. Knowing how to separate &...

I’ve used this one a lot for VFR and am pretty happy with it. The hardest part is figuring out how to print it on both sides in the...

We’ve managed 39 years now. Nobody said it would be easy. But once you finally realize it isn’t “you” (singular) and “her” or “him”...

My primary CFI trained me to pencil in the approach direction onto an airport diagram so I could get a better feel for that.

Same here. I’ve flight planned a lot of trips. I do have a good time with that. I guess that’s my version of playing around on a...

Same here. This is one of the things I usually do, too. But I’m also careful to verify the info on those AOPA kneeboard docs against...

Yes, definitely…now that I know how.

Flying an approach often makes this a lot easier… :)

Another vote for checking Google Earth. Just for fun and titillation I've planned MANY more XCs than I've taken or likely will ever...

https://www.aopa.org/Kneeboard/Kneeboard/GeneratePdf?airportId=KTGI These printouts work well on a kneeboard, writing frequencies and...

I tried very hard to fly to unfamiliar airports as often as I could. Biggest worry for me was finding an airport in ground clutter...

Pssshhh… *I* can do THAT!

Years ago my supervisor sent out Christmas cards to everyone in the department…except me. Months later I got a package in the mail. It...

Most of the time. I judged on a day it was so cold the ink in my pen froze. Another time the ground was so soggy from rain my chair...