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Had a really bad bit of Spatial Disorientation today. It’s usually pretty rare for me to get affected by the leans, but today it was pretty bad. The weather this morning was pretty lousy with few at 200, scattered at 700, and broken at 1100 at San Jose (KSJC). Stockton was reporting Low IFR...

Had my flight review this past Friday. The CFI threw in some under-the-hood unusual attitude recoveries. Now, in the past when I’ve done these, they’ve always followed a similar script — close eyes, chin to chest, hands off the controls, CFI puts the plane into an unusual attitude, then says...

Okay, I had an interesting situation today that puzzles me, and I wanted to see what others think about it. I filed IFR from San Jose (KSJC) to Reid Hillview airport (KRHV) this morning. I was going for the purpose of flying Young Eagles at an EAA Young Eagles event at KRHV. These two...

This past Saturday I was flying the family from San Jose with a planned destination of Wenatchee, WA. We stopped first in Livermore to refuel (No way I'm paying San Jose fuel prices) and then headed off Northbound. Added to the circumstances was that my 18 year old son needed to be in...

Had an interesting thing happen to me this weekend. I was given my IFR clearance on the ground at SJC. Launched and then was handed off to NorCal. Given a couple of vectors and climb instructions. Just a little North of Monterey, I was given a frequency change. This is how it went after...

I had an interesting thing happen to me this past weekend while flying back home from Long Beach to San Jose, and I thought I would share the experience and perhaps get some ideas on what was happening. I was cruising along in my Bellanca Super Viking at 8000 ft at about 160knots TAS. The...