Currently, I am the pilot of a 1964 Cessna 150, nicknamed the Fargo. Yes, it is an airplane and can defy gravity, but it cannot do so very quickly nor with many passengers (being a two seater airplane seriously lacking in horsepower). Nonetheless, it is an airplane and it is mine and it allows me to fly...and that is what is most important.
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Winter seems to have settled itself in our little northern town. It's an inevitable fact that I personally hate. I am not a winter fan in the slightest as there is not much I do in the winter that I actually like. Mostly because anything you do in the...
There is one profession that I have sworn I would never want to do, or involve myself with. That is farming. Why you ask? Because with farming you are completely and utterly dependent upon the weather. Obviously I mean grain or crop farming, not the...
While I was training for my private licence, my instructor informed me that I do not have the typical pilot's personality. What he meant was, I was a scatterbrain: I rarely had my papers in order, I never carried a watch with me (and no, I was not...
I went for a flight the other day. It was cold, miserable and gray, but I hadn't been flying in a few days and was suffering withdrawal. I was simply going to go up, see how the clouds were (they were pretty low) and then come in and perhaps phone...
My instructor almost ran over the lights along the runway today. I'm sorry, I mean tonight, as it was my first lesson on night flying. I'm pretty sure, as he was telling me how perfectly he was lined up with the centreline, that the wing of my plane...
