Archive for October, 2007

FlyBlog 4 Fly-In - not!

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

A couple of times a year, a group of flying Dutchmen who also keep a blog about their aviation related hobby meet face to face and of course travel to these meetings by air, preferably as pilot-in-command… :) This time I was actually able to fit the event into my schedule.

Timing instrument for my IBIS instrument panel

Monday, October 8th, 2007

As of today, I’m yet one more step nearer to finalising my RJ.03 IBIS instrument panel specification - this time by getting the flight timer (that had been on order for quite some time…) delivered to my doorstep.

Cessna 172 crash at EDXR - both elderly pilots unharmed.

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

October 2nd 2007 became a sad day for the local flying club I was a member of at the time. A Cessna172 crash ensued after not aborting a touch & go that should have been aborted. One of the photo’s further down this page shows what the results looked like after the Cessna Skyhawk had come to a grinding halt.

Checkout flight training on two IBIS’es

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

During the weekend of ‘le grand jour de la grande nation’ I had the pleasure of spending some time in Vichy and Roanne.
During this weekend, I visited the RSA fly-in and also met one of the IBIS designers, who invited me to be checked out on two of these birds.