Every time I hear someone use the words general aviation and China in the same sentence, I can’t help but think back a few years ago to the early days of the Cessna 162 Skycatcher. Remember the bombshell announcement, when Cessna told the world the only Read More...
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Jetwhine
on Mon, Mar 14 2011
Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, Business Aviation, Flight Training, Cessna, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, Cirrus, announcement, caiga, cash, china, chinese, purchase
To my deep frustration, I've not done much flying for these past few months. I was doing so well in the autumn and built on my solo with my first dual cross country flights. My last scheduled training flight was to be my solo cross country from Martin State Airport (KTMN) to Cambridge-Dorchester...
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Eclectic Current
by
General Eclectic
on Sun, Feb 20 2011
Filed under: Aiport, AFSP, flight training, Archer, C172, Cessna, flight school, Piper, Flights, Piper Archer, Student, Solo
For those skeptics who just a few years ago tore into Cessna Aircraft as the development of the Skycatcher began to move ahead comes this photo of the mighty Cessna 162 going nose to nose with one of America’s finest F-18s in the ultimate stare down contest Read More...
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Jetwhine
on Thu, Sep 2 2010
Filed under: The Buzz, Cessna, SkyCatcher, 162, mighty, nose, swear, wichita, yingling
Recently I had my first post-TSA clearance flying lesson from Martin State Airport (KMTN) in a Piper Archer II (PA28-181). My pre-TSA clearance trial lesson had been in a Cessna 172S and my aircraft choice was to aide my high wing - Low wing decision going forward. A new aircraft type in my logbook and...
A quick recap for those new to this Blog: I have recently moved to the USA and almost my first task was to sign up with a flight school to start training for a Private Pilot's Certificate. As with many things in life, however, all is not as simple as it might be. As a Permanent Resident Alien I must...
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Eclectic Current
by
General Eclectic
on Sat, May 29 2010
Filed under: AFSP, flight training, .flightschoolcandidates, Archer, C172, Cessna, flight school, PA28, Piper