Our Beech B-25 Baron Bomber

Carlo’s first instrument flight.  At night.  In IMC.  In a multi-engine cockpit.  Left seat.  It doesn’t get more pressure-laden than that.
     
    
   
     
I’d had my turn.  Two runs.  It was time to give the other Captain a shot at it.
On the takeoff video, Meynard never stops teaching, even as Carlo accelerates to rotate speed.  Meynard [...]

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Twin-Engined Fire Hose

My laptop was stolen in Amsterdam two weeks ago, with all my pictures since 2007.  It turns out I had backed up a few photo albums onto my home computer, which is now yielding these hidden treasures.
One of those albums is from December 23, last year.  T’was the night before Christmas… .
    
     
    
     
Meynard gifted us with a flight in [...]

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Night IFR

Latest in the series on IFR flight.  Carlo and I are completely in the dark.
  
  
Friday the 13th, last April.  Guess what we decided to do?
Yup.  We flew at night!   
We left Omni at 1745, another Omni airplane hot on our tail trying to beat the sunset. 
The dust comes from Capt. Ben’s secret weapon, but that’s another story.
Our plan [...]

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Dusk IFR

This is the third in a multi-part series on instrument flight, following Flying Blind and Busted. 
Carlo and I flew with an Omni instructor on a series of IFR flights in April.  I am building instrument time in RP-C391, Omni Aviation’s Cessna 172XP — a fuel injected, constant-speed prop and instrument-rated limousine!
   
  
We departed Subic as the sun slid [...]

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