I took Nancy once around the patch a couple hours ago. She says she will go again and work on getting used to it. I had planned on only once around and that’s what we did. I did fly a longer (than normal, for me) pattern to keep the turns more shallow and (fortunately) greased [...]
The Susquehanna River provides about 1/5th of the fresh water in the Chesapeake Bay. The river originates at Otsego Lake in Cooperstown, NY, and flows south through eastern Pennsylvania and into Maryland, entering the Chesapeake Bay at Havre de Grace, MD.
We had been looking forward to a clear afternoon/evening in which to catch colorful sights [...]
A while back, on a fairly windy and bumpy day, I was working on finishing up my BFR. Jamie, my CFI, wanted me to take him to a tower-controlled field, which was about the only thing we had not yet covered. An Ercoupe is supposed to have a demonstrated crosswind component of 25 knots. Keep [...]