Tag "promoting-aviation"

June 7, 2013

Flying with Friends: Tom’s RV-4

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Earlier this week I had the opportunity to fly with my buddy Tom, who built his own RV-4. Tom is a former Air Force instructor, now turned corporate pilot. He built his RV-4 13 years ago and been loving it ever since. He…

June 2, 2013

New Project

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! If you frequent this website, you might have noticed that the cadence that I post articles has slowed over the last month or so. That is because I’m working on a couple of side projects. The first one I would like to tell…

May 26, 2013

50 Tales of Flight: A Review

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! I recently had the opportunity to read Owen Zupp‘s book, 50 Tales of Flight. I have to tell you if you like reading a wide cross-section of aviation, this book is for you. That’s because Owen and his family have a long history…

May 19, 2013

Air Show Love

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Air Show Love One of the unfortunate byproducts of sequestration is the impact it will have on this Summer’s air show season. According the International Council of Air Shows (ICAS), 10s of millions of folks attend air shows annually and it competes as…

May 16, 2013

Batteries included: The simplified future of electric flight

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! When I think about where we will be in 20 or 30 years in terms of general aviation, it becomes apparent that we will need to be adopters of technology. We have thankfully already seen this shift start to occur in GA. The…

May 10, 2013

The Last Bush Pilots: A Review

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! I have two constants when it comes to my book-reading life. I read anything written by a fellow pilot, but I almost never read non-fiction. In this case I am really glad I broke one of my rules to read Captain Eric Auxier’s…

May 8, 2013

12 Ideas You Can Use to Promote General Aviation

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! 12 Ideas You Can Use to Promote GA In the grand scheme of things, most of these ideas won’t really move the needle. We need solutions to several very large issues, but my goal is offer some relatively simple things we can do…

May 3, 2013

Setting Aviation Goals: The SMART Approach

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Setting Aviation Goals: The SMART Approach Having goals is something we should always endeavor to do. Not just for flying, but since we are talking aviation that will be the context for this article. Certainly these ideas can be applied to anything else…

April 30, 2013

10 Myths About Learning to Fly

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Here are 10 myths that I hear frequently from folks that are interested in flying, but don’t think they can pursue it.   I can’t afford it. I despise the word “can’t.” There is simply no such thing. If you really want it,…