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Archive of posts regarding aviation

Moving Human Blood Around Arizona

Published 2021-08-06

I'd never thought about the logistics of moving donated blood around. The actual donation part is known to be a universally good thing to do, but I'd never searched out what happens next until I heard a fellow pilot talk about volunteering to move pl… [read more]

Austin or Bust: A Post-Y'allhands Adventure

Published 2020-11-01

Due to a variety of factors, Mozilla changed venues for our 2017 winter all-hands meeting to Austin, Texas, and Austin being a city with relatively poor commercial airline connectivity, ticket prices were fairly high even for me to fly there from Pho… [read more]

Berlin By Air

Published 2020-10-05

I have had business dealings requiring me to visit Berlin regularly for the last 5 years, and in 2018 I finally made the trip outside of the city to Strausberg Airport to rent a Cessna 172SP Skyhawk.… [read more]

Watching Hawaii Boil the Pacific Ocean

Published 2020-09-29

I've had a lot more opportunity to travel since I joined Mozilla, and it eventually occurred to me: I could rent aircraft in some of these places I was visiting, and see those places in a different way.… [read more]

Long Instrument Cross-Country Training Flight

Published 2016-09-08

I'm training to be able to fly in clouds and other poor visibility situations. Part of the requirements for this "Instrument Rating" is to fly cross-country, on instrument rules, and do instrument landings at three airports, a task I undertook last F… [read more]

Utility of an Instrument Rating

Published 2016-08-11

I am training right now for my instrument rating add-on to my private pilot certificate. For years I said that there was little point to me having this rating, because in Arizona, when there is weather, you don't want to fly in it. [read more]