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Winds 11 knots, gusting to 18 knots

cowygr8 — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:00:09 +0000

My friend Steve, the businessman passenger during my Swiss Mountain Flight, has been taking flying lessons for a few months. Today we flew in France from Annecy to Chambery to practice landings...

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Home Cockpit

cowygr8 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:00:26 +0000

Many private pilots have logged hundreds, even thousands of hours using Microsoft Flight Simulator. I started flying with this software on my PC many years ago. When I started taking real flying...

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Swiss Mountain Flying

cowygr8 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:00:07 +0000

Today I flew in the mountains of Switzerland (and France). I flew with an instructor and a friend. The instructor helped me navigate because this was my first time flying in the Swiss mountains and...

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50% Off Flight Instruction

cowygr8 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:00:03 +0000

Yesterday I flew again with my instructor from the Aeroclub de Genève from the Geneva airport up to Yverdon in Switzerland. Yverdon is a small town at the southern tip of Lake Neuchatel. It...

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Aeroclub de Genève

cowygr8 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:00:05 +0000

Today was my first flight with the Aeroclub de Genève. It was amazing! Actually, not only was this my first flight with the club, but it was also my first flight in Switzerland, first takeoff/landing...

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Paris Air Show 2009

cowygr8 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:00:56 +0000

Paris Air Show 2009 On Sunday, June 21, I attended the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport. Le Bourget is the airport where Charles Lindbergh landed in 1927 after his 35 hour solo Atlantic...

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Homebuilt Airplane

cowygr8 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:00:42 +0000

I made this video (slideshow) for my friend Nick. He had recently purchased a Europa XS homebuilt airplane from the UK. He had been looking for a while because, as you can imagine, homebuilt...

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Winter Wonderland

cowygr8 — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:00:25 +0000

On final for runway 12 in Annemasse This flight was on New Year’s Eve 2007 … in the afternoon. It was actually a birthday gift for the pilot’s friend so she sat in the front right...

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Red Bull Air Race

cowygr8 — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:00:59 +0000

Red Bull Air Race I attended the Red Bull Air Race in Interlaken, Switzerland on July 15, 2007 and made the video below. The Red Bull Air Race features the world’s best race pilots in a motor sports...

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Mont Blanc

cowygr8 — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:00:51 +0000

This flight was from Annemasse, France (near Geneva, Switzerland). My pilot friend Nick, his friend Matt, and I all squeezed into a French-designed Robin DR400 aircraft. I made this video for Nick...

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