Search results

I want to find a 2-person kit or commercially built ultralight floatplane (or better yet - amphibian) than can be broken down and trailered. I have relatives with an up-north lake cabin and I want to be able to take a small floatplane up there to tool around. The simpler the better; open...

A flight I often like to do with new passengers is the 'Detroit Loop'. A large circle around Detroit Metro's airspace that takes me right over downtown. I've done it dozens of times, but while flying down the Detroit river I will often 'bust' Canadian airspace by a couple of hundred feet or...

I'm going to be moving into a hangar at a different airport soon. The new hangar is older, dingier and smaller than my current one, but it's cheaper and way closer to home. There's going to be a 4 month long overlap, and I want to use this time to prep the new hangar. The concrete floor is in...

I took my Vans RV-10 up on its first flight this past Saturday. I was talking to ATC on their frequency and to my father on the ground with a handheld tuned to 123.45 ('fingers'). Mostly I was keeping my father informed as to what I was doing and how the plane was behaving, but 10 minutes in...

Today I made a VFR flight to an airport I've never been to. To keep my nav skills sharp I decided to fly the route old school using VOR vectors in our club 1972 Skyhawk, keeping mu iPad and GPS as backup. I called WX Brief just before takeoff and got a weather briefing, and nothing significant...

I live in the Detroit area, and when I take friends and family on airplane rides I fly this standard route around Detroit Metro's class B airspace. I'm never in controlled airspace at any point and there usually isn't much traffic. It's been my habit to ask for flight following from Detroit's...