A Day at Glasair Aviation

Earlier this summer, I had the opportunity to take a ride in the company’s CJ3 up to Glasair Aviation. We are currently training a second pilot so there wasn’t an empty seat in the cockpit for me to join my CFI. I was certainly bummed, but there are worse things. Nevertheless, the CJ3 is a…

Less than a week, for more than just $1000

When I first started flying, I was strapped for cash. Heck, who isn’t strapped for cash when it comes to flying? I had quickly caught the infectious passion for aviation and knew that it was never going away.  I saved enough to get started in my training but needed help continuing forward. Thankfully, my CFI’s…

Stop and Go’s Never Stop

And we’re going, again! In the last post, I discussed what Stop and Go’s are in the aviation community, and then started to share the story of my checkride. After multiple cancellations, we had set on a date for the oral portion. I passed the oral and then signed a letter of discontinuance due to…

Stop and Go’s

In the aviation community, a “Stop and Go” is a situation in which you land on the runway, come to a full stop, then power back in and immediately take off again. Typically, when working in the pattern, pilots will do Stop and Go’s or Touch and Go’s (landing and immediately taking off again without…