A more traditional plane.

Well, the owner of the little yellow plane below has decided to sell it so I can't fly it anymore. Therefore I am flying a Piper Cherokee like the one above. It costs me $10 per hour more to rent but its probably going to save me money in the end as its actually a lot easier to fly then the one below and is faster so those mandated cross country lights will go allot quicker. I logged another 1.2 hours on Saturday in the Cherokee. Hopefully the rain we are getting now will let up as we are scheduled to fly our first cross country to Shafter Airfield on Friday. If the weather cooperates I will get a flight physical at that location.

Flight training.

I am back in the flying saddle again. This is the nice little plane I am currently training on. Its classified as a Light Sport Plane but its really pretty nice, has fuel injection, glass cockpit flight instruments (all the flight instruments are displayed on a computer screen) and even an auto-pilot. Its a fun plane to fly, takes off in about 100 feet and climbs like you wouldn't believe. I put in 2.6 hours flying it this week-end. The weather was gorgeous, clear with no wind and about 70 degrees. In other words just another ridiculously beautiful Central Coast day.

Say goodbye to my third airplane project!

Well its sort of sad but I am selling my Soneri experimental aircraft project. As much as I enjoyed working on it I realized if I sold it I would actually have enough money to get my pilots license. It seemed kind of silly to be working on my third airplane project (forth if you count my ultralight) and yet not actually have a pilots license. So I stuck an advertisement in Barnstormers and what do you know, it sold. The guy is coming by tomorrow to pick it up with a U-haul truck. I will miss the airplane but it will be great to be able to rent an aircraft and fly Suzette and the kids somewhere fun.

Here's the progress on the truck, diamond plate steel is going on.