I can't believe it, but an entire year nearly slipped by before I wrote up one of our criss-crossings (two of our crossings!) of the country. Part of the problem is that I was posting photographs from the trip along the way and that sated some of our usual desire to get the trip documented somehow.

How exciting! My first article for Plane & Pilot magazine is up on their website. It will be in the physical magazine on August 10th. Obviously, I already wrote here on the blog about the wonders of the iPad as an electronic flight bag, but it was fun to write blurbs for a bunch of applications I...

This is technical, about the avionics in the airplane. Avionics are the electronic instruments in the plane, some of which sample air pressure in the pitot-static system, or sense the earth's electromagnetic field. The very first airplanes only had a compass mounted on the panel and a spring-loaded...

This is about as cool as technology gets. For now, I guess. One of the people that I took flying with me was the father of a friend of mine. Tom flies a lot of interesting planes just sitting in the right seat. Antique warbirds and Civil Air Patrol planes. One of the things he said when I was about...

I love when reality final catches up with my future. Apple and Foreflight have delivered the Electronic Flight Bag that I was waiting for ever since I bought my first NACO book of instrument approach plates. Why was I dragging around all this paper? Why was I sitting in the run up area flipping...

Monday, August 24 KABQ - KDVT - KSMO Part of the lost trip report. The last day was easy flying. I think we all slept well, but I don’t know because I stumbled into dreamland, tripped over something, and came to eight hours later. The breakfast at the hotel was not horrific and we headed to the...

Sunday, August 23 KSPI - KRVS - KBGD - KABQ Part of the lost trip report. Nell is great at finding us something interesting where we are. Bob and I flew in and out of Springfield, Illinois and, other than debating a visit to the Lincoln museum, saw nothing but the Outback Steakhouse. I know,...

Saturday, August 22 2009 KMMU - KCAK - KCMI - KSPI (Part of the lost trip report.) MORRISTOWN Our departure out of Morristown was our first return-to-field event as a family. (I had done this once with Art in the plane taking off out of Long Beach after service.) The truth is, I expected the plane...

Friday, August 13 KTVC - KACB - KGKJ - KMMU (Part of the lost trip report.) After our incredibly, almost-theme-park-like stay in Traverse City, we needed to return to New York City, where Nell would meet us. We had a small cooler of salmon to drop off at TW’s, definitely worth driving to the...

Wednesday, August 12 KACB - KTVC Part of the lost trip report. It will take longer to write this blog entry than it took to fly from Antrim County to Traverse City. More to the point, it took longer for TW to drive us up to the first airport than it took to fly down to the next. This was one of...