- Joined
- Oct 30, 2003
- Messages
- 18,373
- Location
- Santa Maria, California
- Aircraft
- Givens Predator
- Total Flight Time
- 2600+ in rotorcraft
I just returned from the Air Venture and the PRA convention experience.
It was two weeks of immersion in aviation and five days of driving 5,152 miles in an Avis Prius that averaged fifty miles to the gallon.
Air Venture is simply overwhelming.
I was able to hear Dick Rutan’s story of flying the Voyager around the world without stopping for gas.
He is a great story teller and it is a great story.
I heard a great talk by Jerimiah D Jackson about his record setting cross country flight in his RV. Jerimiah was the second client I signed off for his check ride in a gyroplane.
There were lots of things to see and do and old friends to see and new friends to make.
After walking a lot of miles I left for the PRA convention at their airport in Mentone, Indiana.
Michael Burton did a great job of a flight review for me at the Fulton County Airport. I will be changing the way I teach S turns over a road making it less of a performance
maneuver and more of a ground reference maneuver. I love to learn.
At the PRA convention there was a lot of gyroplane flying going on and the hangar was full at night.
I saw Dick DeGraw’s new jump takeoff gyroplane and saw it jump and fly. It is remarkably quiet and a beautifully crafted machine.
I saw Denis Shoemaker's beautiful gyroplane, it is kinetic art and he is selling kits now under the name Gyro Technic. He is doing a great job addressing the lower end of the gyroplane market building very beautiful machines that appear for fly very well.
I was honored to be in charge of the judging and saw a lot of beautiful machines and met their owners.
Jeff Tipton and David McCutchen helped and taught me a lot.
I saw a lot of interesting gyroplanes and met many interesting people.
The fireworks Friday night after the banquet were spectacular.
The airport looks great and I am proud to be a small part of it.
Interest in gyroplanes appears to me to be expanding.
It was two weeks of immersion in aviation and five days of driving 5,152 miles in an Avis Prius that averaged fifty miles to the gallon.
Air Venture is simply overwhelming.
I was able to hear Dick Rutan’s story of flying the Voyager around the world without stopping for gas.
He is a great story teller and it is a great story.
I heard a great talk by Jerimiah D Jackson about his record setting cross country flight in his RV. Jerimiah was the second client I signed off for his check ride in a gyroplane.
There were lots of things to see and do and old friends to see and new friends to make.
After walking a lot of miles I left for the PRA convention at their airport in Mentone, Indiana.
Michael Burton did a great job of a flight review for me at the Fulton County Airport. I will be changing the way I teach S turns over a road making it less of a performance
maneuver and more of a ground reference maneuver. I love to learn.
At the PRA convention there was a lot of gyroplane flying going on and the hangar was full at night.
I saw Dick DeGraw’s new jump takeoff gyroplane and saw it jump and fly. It is remarkably quiet and a beautifully crafted machine.
I saw Denis Shoemaker's beautiful gyroplane, it is kinetic art and he is selling kits now under the name Gyro Technic. He is doing a great job addressing the lower end of the gyroplane market building very beautiful machines that appear for fly very well.
I was honored to be in charge of the judging and saw a lot of beautiful machines and met their owners.
Jeff Tipton and David McCutchen helped and taught me a lot.
I saw a lot of interesting gyroplanes and met many interesting people.
The fireworks Friday night after the banquet were spectacular.
The airport looks great and I am proud to be a small part of it.
Interest in gyroplanes appears to me to be expanding.