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I'm moving to Michigan at the end of the month. I'm building a house in Ypsilanti and have a temporary rental in Novi while we wait. Gonna be hangaring at Y47 while we wait for the house to be built, and at KYIP or KARB once the house is finished, and my turn comes up on the waiting list for a...

Flew my 1976 PA-32-300 Piper Cherokee 6 into KHWD yesterday and had a new interaction with ATC in my 300 hours flying this thing over the past 2+ years. Normally, I call up as "Piper" 7008F, with no problem. When it matters, ATC has tended to ask, or if I'm doing flight following, I mention...

The shelter-in-place order for California disallows all "non-essential travel" and asks folks to stay inside their homes except when necessary to go outside. We are permitted to go outside for "outdoor activities" such as walking around the neighborhood and such, so long as we observe the 6...

This local article came out yesterday: https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2019/08/21/county-san-jose-explore-options-for-closing-reid-hillview-airport/ Stories like these make me really want to get more involved in local politics to fight against stuff like this. The value that KRHV provides...

Got my plane back from annual and took it up for my usual post-maintenance flight from KRHV to O22 in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. Picked up friends and went over to Castle to go to the air museum, then back! I was also testing out a new camera mount so I could actually watch my...

Having the day off work on July 4, I decided to call up my instructor and put some more time into learning to fly my PA-32-300. After a couple hours of adequate landings, my instructor had me land and told me "We're done. You're good to go!" That evening, I grabbed my partner and we flew down...

After two months of training, my instructor finally gave me the green light to go fly. (Life, scheduling issues, and me having some things to unlearn made it take longer than I wanted, but we made it!) Anyways, I've been wondering about the balancing of the plane. When we did a flight at 95%...

As I've been doing my transition training into my very own PA-32-300, I have been STRUGGLING with landings. They keep getting better as I work with my instructor, but I'm 12 hours and about 20 landings in, and all but 2 of them have been bouncey as heck. It's probably a result of the fact that...

We closed on my plane today! My first one! You can see it here: http://airmart.com/aircraft-for-sale/172/piper/n7008f-1977-piper-cherokee-6-300/n7008f It should be in my hands in a few weeks once the ferry pilot is available to fly it from South Carolina to California. Aaaah! I'm excited! I...

I had to buy a house and do a bunch of other stuff before I could do this, but now I am finally in the process of buying my first plane, a 1977 Cherokee 6 300. It looks like a great plane, though we'll see the reality of that this Friday when I get the pre-buy done. I'm going to be keeping the...

I'm about to start seriously pursuing purchasing an airplane in the next month or two. I'm trying to decide between the Cherokee 6/260 and Cherokee 6/300 right now, and want to see how various missions I might run will fit into both. I know both are haulers, but I want to get a good picture of...

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A friend of mine is celebrating her 40th birthday, and my friends and I are surprising her with a visit to the Exotic Feline Breeding Compound in Rosamond, CA this Saturday. I'm offering to fly her and another friend down to add to the fun and surprise of it all, but there's a few concerns...

Flew out of KSQL today, first flight with a new club. Lots of weird departures and arrivals that I'm unfamiliar with there. I was wondering if folks could give me a bit of information on the approach. When I came from the south west, they asked me to cross midfield at or above 1200, then...

Driving down El Camino Real in Sunnyvale, CA, passed the Tesla dealership that I see on that road sometimes. Sitting out in front of the dealer was what looks like a Cirrus SR-22, with its doors open. Very odd thing to see there, and couldn't see any indication of what was going on to...

As some of you may know, I got my license last year, and have been taking it *very* easy on my flights. Sticking close to areas I know, staying well within my limits, only doing 1-2 hour flights each way. This summer, I'm going to go on my longest flight yet. 560 nm from KPAO to S03 and back...

My roommate made a couple videos of us flying near clouds and set them to pretty music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4KagVQioc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_2g-tmkmUI It amuses me how much closer the clouds look in her videos than they actually were. :)

When I was training for my PPL, I found it hard to handle landings. But since finishing my training, it feels like my landings have been improving a great deal. During training, I was flying 2-3 times a week with my instructor. After training, I fly maybe once a week with family and friends...

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Plane-Makes-Emergency-Landing-on-San-Jose-Street-226308891.html Looks like the pilot landed on the expressway just beyond Reid Hillview Airport right after takeoff. Anyone know anything about this?

I was wondering if anyone knows of good resources for doing VFR flight planning beyond the next few days. I plan to fly from KPAO to 1O2 (Lampson Field) and back this weekend, and noticed some predictions of possible clouds and rain in the ordinary weather reports. But of course, they don't...