Category Spring 1998

Galley O’ Fun

A few years ago several of my friends and I spent over two months in Austrailia. We were both sad to leave and excited to return to the states. We flew out of Sydney in the late afternoon and were…

Geneva Approach

After spending a lovely weekend with my fiancée and some close friends of ours in London, we lifted off at sundown from London’s general aviation airfield of Biggin Hill for our flight back to Geneva, Switzerland. My friend was sitting…

Pilot Induced Oscillation

With a new Pilots License, a used four seater airplane, and a relatively newlywed wife, I was taking her on her first aviation sightseeing trip over the Oregon Cascades. On our way over to the summit of Mt Jefferson (10,497…

Forward Cargo Hold

Being a pilot and still employed, I’ve had to leave many of the “Flight Statistics” blank! While dead-heading from Italy to the USA, a flight attendant and I decided to make good use of our time. The airplane I fly…

Qualified Instructor

A fellow flight-school student had asked if I wished to fly back with her to visit her parents in North Carolina. After an entertaining day at her parents’ house, we bundled tightly into her father’s pickup truck (this is North…

Entry Into The Club

This was our fourth flight in a series of four. Several other opportunities had come our way, but things never seemed quite right to join the “club,” (despite the comfort of a couple of L-1011 flights that offered easier access…