courierguy

?! No one else going to comment on this? Turning into the wind direction causing a rise in airspeed? Not in anything I've ever flown, the...

I have no interest in them myself, but no one is holding a gun to the head of those who do choose to participate, still a free country.

I landed at 8800' the other day, and since I was already leaned out "just right", didn't mess with anything for the takeoff. Now that I think about...

Of course no one EVER flew under it, even before base jumpers started calling from it. That would be wrong.

The 500' rule....,what if one approaches and lands an area much further away than 500', but than slowly taxis closer to " man made structures etc." ...

Evel's jump site is (you can still see remnants of the ramp, and it will make you pucker up just looking at it) is within a mile or two of the...

I'm told by a friend that the base jumpers falling (they probably call it launching) off the Perrine Bridge in nearby Twin Falls, have taken the fun...

Luckily, I think most people won't automatically reach for their phone to video us, and than go to the bother of following up with a complaint to the...

Mine is both, on the chart and registered, all 400' of it. It even has a courtesy car, and security, if he isn't chasing the cat. I would have loved...

I guess I'm glad to have gone to the trouble to get my private strip on the charts, as a "established airport." Maybe...., I think. Seems like it you...

While setting trusses on a house in a nearby rural area the other day, I affirmed that the guy I was craning for also owned the adjacent big field. ...

Yeah, too many neighbors, too close, too chopped up. He should have bought a larger chunk of land, sad to say. I've got 40 acres, wish I had 160....

I never lock my hangar, no telling who could access my plane and take it for spin, so to speak, without me knowing about it. The dog ate my logbook.

I was greatly surprised to find that when I asked for a liability quote on my homebuilt, after I told the agent my age, about my 400' strip, hours,...

"Also, painting that kitfox up like a dang 'murica flag - that's a pretty unique color scheme - hard to deny who it was. I want my ship to look like...

Just a couple days ago, a mile after takeoff and just a couple hundred feet up, on the mountainside I live on, I had to divert a bit to avoid flying...

Afton WY has (so it seems, I've never used it) a nicely maintained grass strip to the west of the main runway, but it is, as you say, too far to taxi...