Cockpit Crosswind Hangar 
Plane and Pilot
MARCH 25, 2025
She walked me through the foyer to the spotless, freshly painted hangar. Keeping with the American theme, Wichita, Kansas-produced Garmin G3X Touch instrument packages come standard for the front and rear cockpits. The GameBird is right at home on the grass, pavement, or TacAeros clean hangar.
Pilot's Life Blog
JUNE 23, 2025
Types of Flight Simulators Basic Flight Simulators These desktop systems offer a simplified cockpit layout with essential controls—yoke, throttle, pedals—and visual displays for instruments and scenery. Why Use a Flight Simulator Cost-Effective Training Flying real aircraft means fuel, maintenance, and hangar fees.
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Plane and Pilot
OCTOBER 29, 2024
The glass cockpit overshadows the cooperative, complacent RV-9A’s character. Kentland has a 4,000-foot runway, east/west, with a crosswind straight out of the north. Just to be clear, although I avoid flying in “hard” IFR, all of my IFR practice includes approaches to minimums, go-arounds, and holding patterns—just in case.
Photographic Logbook
JULY 5, 2025
My hangar neighbor Steve was on short final at SDC in his Bonanza. When I arrived, Northeast Philly Airport was not only extremely busy ("Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full") but everyone was landing with a gusty 20 knot crosswind. We'll see how that goes. My first solo flight post-diagnosis, SDC to PNE.
Plane and Pilot
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
The J-4’s cockpit is wider than the more common J-3, and the second generation brought about the replacement of the open cowl with exposed exhaust ports with a fully enclosed cowl. The plane has no internal radio, so cockpit and external communications were running through a portable intercom plugged into a portable radio.
Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
When you’re starting to feel human again after major surgery, what’s a good plan for getting safely back into the cockpit? There was a nice crosswind, and I demonstrated landing on a concrete expansion joint, offset from the runway centerline. I had a total knee replacement. I could tell that this had the CFI’s full attention.
Air Facts
APRIL 10, 2024
He was thrilled and sent me a picture of her by the new hangar. The new owner was thrilled and sent me a picture of the Cardinal by its new hangar. Like many local GA airports, we have a group of pilots (mostly older, retired aircraft owners) who congregate most days in one hangar or another. The reason is that it is time.
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