Things I will never forget if I ever stop flying
I was reading Vincent’s recent post on the things he does not miss while not flying and it made me wonder: what are the things I learned through flying that will always be useful to me, even if I stopped flying? Meteorology: ever wondered what causes seasonal changes in weather patterns? Why drizzle can last for days while showers of rain come and go? Why white puffy clouds grow bigger in the late summer afternoon? And what’s that

The best of 1000+ aviation blog posts
I read a lot of aviation blogs, and feeds from aviation information sources. When everything goes fine, I do it daily. But for the last three weeks, I had less time because job happens, and when I came back to my feeds reader, I saw 1000+ unread items. Ouch. I bravely checked them today and selected the best of them for you. Most of the unread posts were not from personal blogs but from news source like AOPA news, aviation in Google N

Touch-screen Glass Cockpit: Meet the Garmin G3000
Earlier this year I posted about the idea of mixing glass-cockpit and touch-screens. Call that chance, talent or vision, but Garmin announced the G3000 recently, which includes two touch-screen control units. Bad news: the issue I talked about, having the controls far from the display, is not solved. The G3000 is made of two PFDs, one MFD, and two touch screen control units. The PFDs and the MFD are not touch screens… yet. May be the G5000 will integrate that…

Readers Poll – Political orientation
This one has been on my waiting list for a while. This is may be not a politically correct question, but I’d like to know… Do you have a political orientation ? Are you more left-ish or right-ish ? For US readers, Democrat, Republican ? Ecologist ? Without specific political orientation ? And finally, does this impact your flying ?

Not flying – What I don’t miss
I’m not flying for the time being, to save money for the Flying Across America project. I’ve been in similar situations a couple of time and it’s never easy to stop flying, be it because of budget and time constraints. I miss flying a lot… well, most of it. There are some part of flying I miss less than others, the less glorious part of it. Towing and playing hangar Tetris Most of my flying was in a flying club having a hangar for its whole fleet. On the plus side, there was no need for aircraft covers.