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Mike Much and I are starting a new Cirrus flight and social club at the Marion C17 airport in Eastern Iowa called Executive Aero Flight Club. The market demand is strong for a Cirrus club in the area, and momentum is growing fast! We had our first open house and grill out in our hangar last...

This year one of my goals as a pilot and instructor is to complete my ATP training. The first step in becoming an ATP rated pilot is to complete the ATP CTP training. Since FlightSafety International in Atlanta, GA offers this course with 10 hours of level D sim time in a CRJ700, I knew this was...

Last week I had the opportunity to take my ATP CTP training at FlightSafety International in Atlanta, Georgia. Since the Signature FBO at ATL is just a short 5 minute walk to FlightSafety and my hotel, I thought...why not just fly my Beech Bonanza into Atlanta Hartsfield for the week? The fees...

What a day yesterday. Started off pretty terrible: furnace broke, stress at work, and a trip that I had spent 5 months preparing for nearly fell through. I was pretty beat down but decided that I would still fly with a student to Mason City MCW for the monthly Third Thursday fly-in. Then while...

One of the things I find most enjoyable about owning my Beech Bonanza is the maintenance planning side of things. When I first bought my airplane, I created a catalog of nearly every part number installed on the airplane; poured through the logbooks capturing what had been replaced when, what...

Ever heard of 178 seconds to live? A few weeks ago my friend Martin Pauly and I went out for breakfast in his A36 Bonanza and we decided to make a video demonstrating him flying "by the seat of his pants" to see how long he could fly before getting into an unusual attitude. Martin is an in...