by EAA | Nov 6, 2024 | Bits 'n Pieces, Bits and Pieces, EAA, EAA member, Member Stories
By John Wyman, EAA 462533, Chapter 266, Montreal There is a dynamic to two people working in a cockpit. For a long time now, the modern airliner has only had two crew members. Days gone by it had three or four. Today, on a wide-body airliner, the CARs (regs) stipulate...
by EAA | Oct 1, 2024 | Bits 'n Pieces, Bits and Pieces, BNP, EAA member, Member Stories
By Mike Davenport, EAA 89102, Langley, British Columbia The Thursday night dinner special at Mary’s Bleue Moon Café was fish and chips. What better reason does one need to take two airplanes and five hungry people to Victoria on Vancouver Island? Five of us mounted a...
by EAA | Oct 1, 2024 | Bits 'n Pieces, Bits and Pieces, BNP, EAA, EAA member, Learning to Fly
By John Wyman, EAA 462533, Chapter 266 Montreal For the longest time, I have been contemplating the hurdles to get a pilot license and FLY! It seems that the endeavour should be straightforward and well mapped out. I realize that it is NOT the same for everyone. No...
by EAA | Oct 1, 2024 | Bits 'n Pieces, Bits and Pieces, BNP, EAA, Member Stories
By Michael Baranowsky, EAA 1381366, Oshawa, Ontario, CYOO Builders like details. A lot of details. Reading an article about a triple redundant avionics panel without knowing the Mil-Spec of the Tefzel cable is … well, it is just wrong. Part 2 was called for, and so...
by EAA | Sep 4, 2024 | Bits 'n Pieces, Bits and Pieces, EAA, EAA member, learn to fly, Learning to Fly, Member Stories
By Tristan da Cunha Monday, July 17, 2023, is a day I vividly remember. The VFR flight conditions were textbook perfect. It was on this day that I flew my first solo in a general aviation aircraft, a 1978 Cessna 152 (C-GMZW). I completed my solo at Pitt Meadows...
by EAA | Sep 4, 2024 | Bits 'n Pieces, Bits and Pieces, EAA, EAA member, Member Stories
By John Wyman, EAA 462533, Chapter 266, Montreal My father, Bill Wyman, passed away a year ago this past August. He was 87. A year later, I am left with many cherished memories of him and our missions we had together. I spoke of some of those at his funeral but since...
