Lancair-school is pretty fun! My class poses in front of my new bird. The Lancair (oh… I am supposed to call them “Columbia Aircraft Manufacturing”) guys […]

OK so I finished my work for PFC (Sacramento), getting the X-Plane 8.60 FAA-approved version of X-Plane tweaked just right for them, and then it was […]

So, compared to the Cirrus SR-22, what is the Lancair Columbia 400 like? Well, as you preflight it, you see the Cirrus has a nice big, […]

The Sled From Hell (June 2007) OK so my 2007 Corvette, when I first got it, started with a chugga-chugga-puUuUuUuUuRrRrRrR… just a nice smooth loping, purring […]

“The Only Way To Damage a Lancair Is To Leave It On The Ground So It Can’t Get Away” (July 2007) Why does God hate Lancairs? […]

Bermuda! (August 2007) In 1505, a Spanish captain named Juan de Bermudez was on his way from Spain to other parts, and stumbled across some tiny […]

OK so here is a quick follow-up for you! People have been asking about the Vette mods and the Lancair repairs, so here we go! Corvette: […]

“Rough-Running” (June 2008) “You can take that pickup truck into town if you want. Here’s he keys.”, said the mechanic. OK, I guess I need to […]

“Dalhart, TX” (June 2008) “No taxis. No rental cars. But some hotels in town. You can take that pickup truck into town if you want. Here’s […]

“Hangar-Final” (June 2008) OK 842X is finally fixed and flying, and here is the post-mortem on the whole thing. My hangar was built like crap. It […]

Oshkosh 2008 (July 2008) OK so I jumped into 842X to take her to Oshkosh 2008 to work the X-Plane booth there and sell X-Plane and […]

428X 2008 (November 2008) OK so it was taking too long to get 842X fixed, but I needed to travel to get to customers! So I […]

Oshkosh 2008 (December 2008) OK it was time to take 428X (successor to 842X, successor to 248X, all identical columbia-400’s right down to the color options) […]

Shawano->Columbia (February 2009) OK this flight deserves a narrative.. I apologize profusely that my camera was in my suitcase in the back, inaccessible. The flight was […]

French X-Plane Conference (June 2009) OK so a bunch of guys in France decided to have an X-Plane conference in a remote area outside of Paris. […]

“The Bear You Do Not Climb On” (July 2009) On vacation with friends to Mackinac hotel near Canada, we took the ferry to nearby Mackinaw, the […]

S428X (August 2009) OK so I ran to a tiny little private grass strip in 428X to meet some friends for lunch and then dinner later […]

“Techno” (September 2009) Quick note: Go here to see music by Jay Oliver… an amazing musician and X-Plane-a-holic.. it is not techno, but it is amazing! OK now […]

“State of Flight Simulation” (October 2009)

“Avanti” (May 2010) Randy Witt with friends and family right after our Avanti flight: OK so X-Plane biz-manager Randy Witt knows a guy that flies his […]

“Honeymoon” (May 2010) OK so I just got married so here are some pix of our wedding and then honeymoon through Europe: BOND! JAMES BOND! JAMES […]

“Racing” (June 2010) Ok so it was time to take a short vacation from X-Plane 10 development, and Randy’s wife (Randy of all your tech support […]

I have been flying Columbia 400’s for a while, and they are great, but married with a baby on the way and the desire to travel […]

“Endeavour” (May 2011) 20 years of manned flights to orbit and I have never made the time to go see a Shuttle Launch. Ridiculous. So the […]