flying

30 by 30: Learning to Fly [Siloam Springs Flight]

February 15, 2012

As a part of my 30 by 30 list, I’ve decided to learn how to fly! More on the how and why in my Learning to Fly posts. More flying! Last week we flew over to Siloam Springs (a neighboring city) to practice taking off and landing more.  As I’m sure you can imagine, those two things [...]

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30 by 30: Learning to Fly [Steep Turns]

February 8, 2012

As a part of my 30 by 30 list, I’ve decided to learn how to fly! More on the how and why in my Learning to Fly posts. Sooo… an alternate title for this video would be: The Time I Almost Puked on My Instructor. I don’t get motion sick easily and I have no trouble doing [...]

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Big Rocks and Long Props Vol. 5

February 3, 2012

Last week I mentioned that our company, Nflightcam, was teaming up with Bent Prop Productions to film Vol. 5 of Big Rocks and Long Props. We picked Patrick up at the airport on Monday night and he has been working furiously to get the footage edited.  You can see a short promo video here:   [...]

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30 by 30: Learning to Fly [Climbing and Turning]

January 26, 2012

As a part of my 30 by 30 list, I’ve decided to learn how to fly! More on the how and why in my Learning to Fly posts. I’ve gotten a little behind on my flight lesson videos since Patrick is out of town. He’s been the main video editor around here so I had to teach [...]

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Big Rocks & Long Props Teams Up with Nflightcam

January 23, 2012
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Patrick has been crazy about these videos called Big Rocks and Long Props for years.  Any time fellow pilots would come over, out would come the DVDs and they’d all gather around and oooo and awww over the amazing flights. Well, you can imagine Patrick’s excitement when the opportunity came along to join Greg Miller [...]

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30 by 30: Learning to Fly [Practicing Stalls]

January 13, 2012

As a part of my 30 by 30 list, I’ve decided to learn how to fly! More on the how and why in my Learning to Fly posts.   So, yes, I’m still taking lessons. I didn’t give up the first week, so that’s a good sign, right? I’ve been taking 2 or 3 lessons a week [...]

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30 by 30: Learning to Fly [The First Lesson]

January 8, 2012

You know, being married to a pilot, I’ve been asked on a regular basis, “So when are you going to learn to fly?” My answer was a firm, “No thanks. I like being a passenger.” But when I started making my list of 30 Things by 30, I just knew that learning to fly had [...]

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To get your blood pumping…

November 29, 2011

Take 2 minutes and watch the following promotional video for Patrick’s air show partner, Brian Correll.  Patrick will, most likely, not be flying air shows next season since he’ll be starting his Air National Guard training.  This video shows off their daring flying skills and the awesome cameras! I don’t always write a lot about [...]

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a few pictures (finally)

March 29, 2011
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So, on our 10 day epic plane trip across the country I took about…. oh… 10 pictures. And most of them were on my iPhone. I’m in some kind of picture taking slump, I guess. Jessica would be so ashamed. Anyway, I mentioned in my last post that while we were stuck in a snowstorm [...]

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Adventure Pilots:: They’re Off!

December 27, 2010

My husband, Patrick, along with his friends Aaron and Alex left yesterday morning on their trip around the Caribbean circle. The guys will be flying in a Cessna 180 appropriately dubbed “Charlie Banana” as you can see in the picture above. They stayed in Texas last night and crossed over into Mexico this morning.They will [...]

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