From fellow pilot, Tom Thomason: I’ve wanted to fly myself cross the North Atlantic for more than 20 years (or more) and the opportunity finally showed up this year. A good buddy of mine (Joe Casey) mentioned that he would be ferrying several aircraft across the North Atlantic from Saudi Arabia. That sounded like a…
This trip started out badly as I tried to jam too much into one day. I accepted a flight for a client to New Mexico on the same day that I was to depart for Saudi Arabia. My airline flight was not scheduled to depart until 4pm, and I figured I had plenty of time to…
Here’s a link to the route with lots of pics…the written story is below… I’m always excited any time I get a call from Travis Holland for you just never know what adventure he might have in store. The owner of HollandAero, Travis is a bonafide Jetprop/Phenom nut who loves to fly internationally. He’s built…
For some reason the flight over to Italy on the airliner affected me physiologically much more than normal. The Jet-lag was quite intense, at least much more than normal. I never do sleep well sitting up straight on an airliner and didn’t sleep very much on this flight at all. My biggest complaint on the…
Ahh…the Caribbean…a lovely locale. Beautiful beaches, blue-green water, and cool music…what’s not to love? I got to spend a few days in Barbados getting ready to fly a Cessna 421 back to the US, and really enjoyed the island. This particular C-421 had been in service as an inter-island charter airplane, and had spent the…
I got to fly a King Air 200T from Mali, Africa to the US. See the route of my flight here. I was held up in Bamako, Mali (Africa) for about 4 days longer than expected as I awaited the entirety of the aircraft logbooks to be delivered for a King Air 200T. Ridgeaire (www.ridgeaire.com)…
We departed Keflavik in the morning with only a 20 knot wind, which seemed like nothing after the 50 knots from the night before. Since we landed in the dark the night before, we didn’t get to see Iceland from the air well at all. Mid-level clouds were present for much of the climb, but…
(continued from Atlantic Crossing…) At 7am we were eating breakfast at the hotel restaurant in Goose Bay, Canada and then were on our way to the FBO. Determining the weather at the various destinations in Greenland occupied about 30 minutes of our time at the FBO prior to takeoff. The weather in Narsarsuaq was forecast to…
One day at my home airport, the Cherokee County Airport (KJSO) in Jacksonville, TX, a King Air flew in and pulled up to Ridgeaire, an aircraft sales and brokerage firm based at KJSO. The pilot (I never got his name) got out and we struck up a conversation about his flight. I learned quickly that…