Monday was quite a lot for me. Not only did I have a great flight, I also turned 27, had my 1-yr anniversary living in the Portland area, and Tuesday brought 1-yr working at my job. What an awesome day. I’m now soloed at all three of the non-towered airports around Twin Oaks. Those are […]
After waiting a number of days to finally get the weather to cooperate, I was finally able to perform my solo take-offs and landings at Stark’s Twin Oaks Airpark!
Yesterday, after a few weeks of trying to do so, I was able to finally fly a cross-country flight down to Corvallis (CVO), up to Salem (SLE), and back home to Twin Oaks (7S3). The flight was one of my longest to date around two hours, but great to be able to check off my […]
I went over to Twin Oaks today expecting the wind to stay around five knots, but as we took off to fly, the winds increased. I was only able to do a couple landings that day, but since I was working to solo at Twin Oaks, I wasn’t able to do much more than that. […]
This last weekend I was supposed to fly with Rick on a cross-country flight from Twin Oaks (Hillsboro) to Corvallis, over to Salem, and then back home to Twin Oaks. And to my dismay, it was another rained out weekend. L And even though I didn’t get to fly on Friday or Sunday (as scheduled), […]
My flight this Monday was both fun and humbling. And most of all it lead me to seeing a double rainbow! I’m sure a number of you have seen the video below with the guy who saw a double rainbow. Now whether he was on something or not is besides the point. All I want […]
I went flying yesterday after work over to Aurora (UAO) with my instructor. He had me learn about soft and short field takeoffs. Rick showed me a short field takeoff on Monday, but I never had a chance to perform it myself. This flight we started my flying with this. Short Field Takeoff The idea […]
I went to Twin Oaks expecting to make a trip to McMinnville and then head over to Salem for more pre-cross country practice. Instead, I ended up flying to McMinnville and soloing there! Before heading over to McMinnville, Rick and I flew around Twin Oaks and did a landing. Landing went well and we were […]