If you are up on all things internet you may have heard of a web site hosting company known as “Host Gator.com”. Brent Oxley started the company as a college drop-out and led an army of nerds there until its sale in 2012. Brent took the proceeds and purchased the OX ranch and …
Thursday’s interesting private strip of the day…OX Ranch Read More »
If you are a student pilot flying your cross-country from Austin to T82 (Fredericksburg Gillespie County) it’s likely that you’ll fly near the LBJ Ranch. Now a national park Ladybird Johnson willed the Ranch to the National Park Service upon her passing in 2007. While serving as the 36th President of the United States …
Tuesday’s interesting private airport belongs to Oscar S. Wyatt. A self-made millionaire Wyatt was tried in court for making illegal payments to Iraq under the Oil for Food program. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wyatt
In our last article, You too Can Learn to Fly, we discussed how to get started if you’ve always dreamed of learning to fly. One of the most important tools a new pilot has is a Pilot Buddy. A good Pilot Buddy will help inspire and motivate a new pilot to start training, train efficiently, and …
Learning to fly IFR is an important skill that every Private Pilot should aspire to earn. Even if you start training and never finish, the skills you learn in the process will make you a better and safer VFR pilot.
Have you always had the dream of becoming a pilot but thought it was out of your reach? After all, only rich people learn to fly their own airplanes and you don’t have the desire to become an airline pilot, so learning to fly isn’t for you…right? The truth is far different than this. Learning …
by David J Fill II @davidfill All of us are probably familiar with FAR Part 43 that talks about maintenance tasks an owner can perform without the direct supervision and sign-off of an A&P Mechanic. Of the 32 tasks outline in this part of the regulations oil changes are absolutely the task you as an …
Pilot Partner is pleased to announce the release of the CFI Dashboard module in the Pilot Partner Electronic Pilot Logbook System. This is a tool that will help hard working CFIs manage and track their students in one simple and easy to use dashboard.
This week I had the opportunity to fly out to Lone Star Executive Airport (KCXO), the home of Modaero 2016 Next Generation Aviation Festival. Brian Columbus and Jason Stewart were on site working hard to prepare for the event and gracefully extended an invite for me to stop by one evening. Pilot Partner had signed …
By Ken VeArd How Do You eLog (#HowDoYoueLog) is a new campaign at Pilot Partner to help pilots who have yet to convert to electronic pilot logbook software. Read more at: Starting Electronic with a Pilot Logbook. Since I have started the Pilot Partner Electronic Logbook App, I’ve talked to a lot of pilots about …