Flight Opportunity: Carson City → Bend Oregon (CXP → BDN) We’re looking for a qualified club member to ferry our Beechcraft Bonanza F33A from Carson City Airport (KCXP) back home to Bend, Oregon...
Carson City → 25 hours We’re looking for members who enjoy purposeful, by-the-book flying to help us complete approximately 25 hours of engine break-in flying following the installation of new...
We pulled it off! The High Sierra Pilots Flying Club’s first overnight fly-in! Eight planes with 19 people flew from our home base in Carson City (CXP) to the Kern Valley Airport (L05) on Saturday...
A Student Pilot Recalls A Night Flight with a CFI and a CFI-in-training into KRNO After a couple months of doing hardly anything but touch-and-go’s, sporadic flights, and passing my written exam, my...
Ten years ago, I got a Pilot’s Certificate for one reason: to fly the backcountry. I’ve always loved the outdoors. It recharges me, and it’s a source of sanity and peace. I know a...
For years I’ve had the opportunity to fly over these lands and marvel in their changing colors, textures, and reflections, many times finding myself lost in the processes of enjoying these moments...
I replied, “negative on the instrument approach Timehri, and we only have the one VHF operating and no other navigation aids available due to the fire.” “Fire, Captain”! The co-pilot yelled. He turned...
It was warm, the doors were off, the ride was smooth, and I was flying a helicopter for the first time. To me, it was like a weekend cruise in my 79’ Jeep CJ-7. Just a bikini top, no doors, and pure...
People claim that the airline industry is too consolidated whether due to airline alliances, the airlines themselves or other things. So how consolidated is it?...
