Time Flies Slower in the South
Trip report to New Orleans While Atlanta is certainly an important city in the south of the US, you can still go deeper, you can go more southern. You then Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Flying
Breaking Altitude Record
Last Sunday I flew a typical GA IFR profile from Kortrijk (EBKT) to Deauville (LFRG) and back: climbing as fast as possible with a non-turbo single engine piston through and Continue Reading →
Visiting Dassault in Bordeaux
Dassault, the French manufacturer of the Rafale fighters and the Falcon business jets, was so kind to invite some industrials to their factory in Bordeaux, France. As I had just Continue Reading →
Thundering Carolinas
Planning Atlanta called me in for work again, and I had again another weekend there to waste. I had sweet memories of flying to the east, so I checked again Continue Reading →
OpenAirplane Checkout
I discovered a new interesting service to renter-pilots in the USA: OpenAirplane. This service overcomes the well-known problem for pilot-renters to have to be checked out by a local instructor Continue Reading →
How I became the first European pilot to “convert” my ICAO Instrument Rating to an EASA IR via the CB-IR route
Introduction For years I am looking to convert my American ICAO FAA instrument rating (IR) to a European one (EASA). This was impossible until new legislation came about early 2014, Continue Reading →
High Performance in Virginia
Work called us towards the Washington DC area in the fall of 2013. While waiting to attend an aviation related trade show, two colleagues and myself added two extra aviation Continue Reading →
Vol Provençal
In 2013, I re-made myself member of the Aéroclub de Rouergue on the airfield of Villefranche-de-Rouergue (LFCV), a small provincial town in the department of the Aveyron in the southwest Continue Reading →
And the Alternator Gave Up
My first stop on my business trip was Washington DC. I had a meeting with the FAA headquarters over there, but I was arriving the night before. So I squeezed Continue Reading →