This morning I had the pleasure of taking the left seat with my father-in-law in his Twin Comanche. It wasn't an official first lesson but it sure felt like one. The family is flying up to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh this summer and I needed to learn some basic flying skills to help out the pilot [...]...

Wow - I haven't posted in a while. Been very busy working on starting a business and getting married. Yay! Finally! With that being said, my leisure time for the last two months was stretched thin. Its time to get on with the second chapter of my life. Time for harder work. Hard work comes rewards [...]...

Watch this short clip with Andy Rooney from 60 Minutes on why we shouldn't travel. I agree with pretty much everything he says but my excitement came from the fact that it gives more credence to the importance of general aviation and the push to avoid commercial airlines. Let's face it - airlines must change the [...]...

Last week I had the amazing opportunity the sit in a Gulfstream GV cockpit at Peatchtree Dekalb Airport. It was my future father in law's last flight as a corporate pilot after 38 years with the company and he invited me down to look around. Needless to say I gladly obliged. The aircraft was striking. Not [...]...

Read Orville and Wilbur Wright's Flying Machine patent application submitted one hundred five years ago on March 23, 1903. The patent for the flying machine was officially approved on May 22, 1906. I'm no expert on aviation physics by any means but its amazing to me how much of a grasp these fellas [...]...