After nearly 3 months of planning, the big day is finally here: we’ve left Toronto and are on our way to the Bahamas. It took a lot of work to get to this point, because planning such a long trip for someone
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Content: flight planning; visas; COVID; more flight planning; getting advice on Bahamas flying; planning food; weight and balance; weather;
Wow, did that near-miss video ever get some attention! I had hundreds of comments from pilots and viewers out there, most of whom agreed with my lessons, but also many ripping into the other pilot. That other pilot actually called me up
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The incidents continue with Mona in the right seat! Back in August we decided to fly down to Sarnia for a fly-in at the airport there. It’s named after Chris Hadfield, and he was going to be there to meet people. It
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Saint Catharines is the main city in the Niagara region, which most people know for the Falls, but it’s also Canada’s largest wine-producing region. There’s a great little airport that about 7 km from the city, and also only about 11 km
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After 4 long months of waiting, my new engine finally arrived at the end of June, and Mo put all hands on deck to get it installed and ready to go as soon as possible. About 10 days later, it was finally
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The bad luck continues. After everything this plane has been through already (propeller overhaul, cracked exhaust headers, flapping oil doors, etc.), I was hoping my annual inspection in March would go nice and smoothly. Sadly, it wasn’t mean to be. My AME,
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One of the first real flights after getting the plane back in the air with the headers fixed, was to fly down and do a tour of Niagara Falls. It turns out it’s not quite as straightforward as the flights I’d done
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Barely a month after I got my license, and when I’d only flown my plane a few times, Mona and I started noticing a smell of gasoline exhaust fumes in the cabin. At first we tried to ignore it, but it got
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