Wednesday, October 22, 2008

PAX Flight #3: Rod

Flight #: 107 [Commercial VFR61]
Aircraft: Schweizer 300CB
Aircraft ID: N61482
Duration, as PIC: 1.2hrs
Cumulative Time: 132.7hrs


My college computer science professor / adviser / good friend Rod, and his wife Anita were in Portland for a business trip. Weather was nice enough to get Rod up for his first helicopter flight.

"First few minutes were a little weird, but then it was amazing."

'nuff said.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

PAX Flight #2: Becky

Flight #: 106 [Commercial VFR61]
Aircraft: Robinson R22
Aircraft ID: N2223P
Duration, as PIC: 1.0hrs
Cumulative Time: 131.5hrs



Got a chance to take my high-school / long time friend Beck up for a spin. Beautiful day!

Friday, October 10, 2008

Back in the saddle again.

Flight #: 105 [Commercial VFR61]
CFI: Kristie E.
Aircraft: Robinson R22 Beta II
Aircraft ID: N2548S
Duration, as PIC: 1.2hrs
Cumulative Time: 130.5hrs

With the birth of my son, Addison, I've not been doing much flying recently. But, since he's doing really well, and actually letting us sleep reasonable stretches, I got a chance to go up for a bit of a refresher.

Nothing earth shattering to speak of this time, just a nice morning flight to get back in the saddle again.

ps: Just to be clear, I'm skipping a lot of flights in the blog... not because I'm not in to this anymore, but there is a lot of repetition in training, and you don't really want to read about it. So, when something cool happens, I'll be here to post about it. Commercial training is mostly hour building and fine-tuning your skills. IFR is just going in circles (well, pill shaped paterns) with your eyes closed. Really.