Ron's Adventures

We covered weather theory in such detail last week that we didn’t get to all of it. After going over last week’s quiz (I did fine)...

Woohoo! I’m now officially checked out in the club 172s. The weather was great. It was a little bumpy, but otherwise beautiful on the ground and...

This one was a no-brainer. The weather was awful… 800 foot ceilings, half mile visibility and rain pretty much all day. I’ll try again next Monday....

Bummed about my canceled flight, I still had instrument class to look forward to… sort of. We had our second quiz and I didn’t prepare as...

I knew the forecast winds were pushing it for part two of my 172 checkout, but I figured even if I couldn’t finish what I needed,...

A club friend and I planned a flight to Charleston, SC and up the SC/NC coast to Ocean Isle and back to Sanford for today. By...

After months of thinking about it and talking about it, I finally took step one of getting checked out in the club’s Cessna 172 (Skyhawk). After...

Tonight we covered a lot of basic pilot material that I’d already learned as a VFR pilot like aerodynamics, airplane performance, instrument systems and failure modes....

Hunter and I finally made it to Wilmington, but not without delays. Wilmington is a towered airport, and though we were nervous about it, we’ve been...