As part of my Commercial Pilot training, I decided to use a beautiful sunny and windless day to build some more command hours. I’d been flying to some familiar places recently, the Hunter Valley, Mudgee, places which I knew well and could almost get to without referring to a map (disclaimer: not that I ever […]
Flight Over Hawaii – a clockwise loop around the Island in a PA28 Cherokee
Today I hired a Piper Cherokee 140 from Anderson Aviation at Honolulu International Airport for a flight around the Island. It was the first time I’d flown an aircraft outside of Australia but apart from being unfamiliar with the local procedures (which my Instructor Kristie helped me out with) everything was very similar and it […]
Stall warning alarm Piper Cherokee
So I was due to take some passengers up to the Hunter Valley at the weekend but the Piper Cherokee that I had rented had a faulty stall warning system. The small metal tab on the leading edge of the Port wing was moving correctly and I tested it as part of the pre-flight. But […]