I recently had a bad experience within C airspace locally. We have 3 within our area. RDU, GSO and FAY. I was doing touch and goes, was cleared to land by the tower. Had four jets waiting for departure and a Cessna 182. I was cleared to land post departure of the 182. Cleared to [...]

There seems to be a lack of common sense lately. Fuel mismanagement and weather are the leading causes of accidents again this past year. People do not get it after all these years of education and insurance statistics. *The FARs(61& 91) are written from observing experiences or ‘lack of’ from years of compiling data from [...]

We have begun again a new private pilot ground school on Tuesday nights. We have 11 people enrolled and it is going smoothly. Last year, Wayne Webster and myself taught four sessions of ground school and had not one person fail the written. Yay for the instructors/student work ethic. We still need to get better [...]

Well just the other day, N5144L arrived back on the field from the damage occurred in November 05. It has been a long time coming with extensive repairs from a bad landing by a instrument rated, 250 hour pilot. It has caused great stress and expense (new firewall, engine, hardware, painting, etc) getting it back [...]

Well a new year has arrived with the weather that accompanies January flights. Wind, some ice and MVFR is here and will be here until mid May. Those low pressure systems that come up from the Gulf or off our NC coast normally cause all kinds of trouble this time of the year. Get good [...]

We have had a number of checkrides this year with about 8 more pending before the end of the year. Checkout the latest passes in the gallery link in the site navigation to the right.