above: a mid-way fuel stop, not much going on in McCook, Nebraska Last week we hopped in a Cessna 172 and flew across the midwest to visit Mark’s family in Iowa. It’s something we’ve dreamed of doing for years now so it was pretty sweet to finally be doing it. We may have only moved at a fraction of the speed of a commercial airliner but Mark let me bring more than 3...
For years Mark & I have talked about him getting his private pilot’s license, yet I never completely grasped exactly what it would take for him to earn that title. In the most simplified terms, you basically need to put in enough time in the air and in the books to pass a verbal test on the ground and an in-flight test with an examiner. The FAA requires a minimum of 40...
You know how certain days of your life are so monumental that they will be ingrained in your memory until the day you die? Yesterday was one of those days. Growing up I’ll never forget the framed cut up shirt that hung in my dad’s office. It was from the day he soloed on his way to becoming the pilot I had always known him to be. Unlike most kids, my family never went on road...
