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News! Read the latest story of myclimbrate.com in the september edition of SkyNews.ch (aviation magazine). They even have an app for your iPad - click here. The article is about the fly-out to Greece I talked about last time. I apologize for not blogging...

Back from 11 days of flying: From Switzerland to Greece. The journey is 20.4 hours in my logbook and I have many stories to tell. Coming soon.... ;) Approach to Losinj Croatia

No, this was no lazy sunday! :) After an incredible Muse concert on saturday... ...my father had the brilliant idea to go flying! We flew to a small grass field, called Sitterdorf (LSZV). It had a short runway of just 1570 feet and both threshold were...

The Franklin engine roared to live and accompanied us with its distinctive galloping sound, while taxiing to runway two five. I gave the girls a quick passenger briefing and took off into the blue skies. Crossing the alps will always amaze me. :) The...

I have passed the practical test - the final piece to complete my conversion! =) =) =) My grin will not disappear for the next days. I am so happy now... All the hassle is over. I finally hold two stand-alone pilot certificates. Winter went on into the...

In class delta airspace, does air traffic control ensure separation between IFR and VFR traffic? The answer is no. Curiously enough 75% of private pilots and 70% of airline transport pilots believe it is not their responsibility. A survey revealed this...

Yesterday my car had a flat battery. My girlfriend's dad helped to get it running again. Later, on the way to work, I found out the cooler fan and radio didn't work anymore. Oh I love this Ford Fiesta.... after work the radio came back to life (who needs...

One of the easy-to-accomplish tasks toward my commercial pilot licence is the cross-country flight time as pilot in command. I need 50hrs and I think I almost got it. Since I work toward a licence the flights have to cover at least 50 nautical miles in...

During the grey fall days it is hard to believe that there's blue skies - anywhere above. One lucky Saturday the clouds opened up a bit to let us catch a bit of sunlight. Knowing there weren't any clouds in the alps, we headed toward them for a $100 fondue....

Private Pilot Checkflights are very thoroughly planned by the students. A day before mine my examiner told me to plan a flight from Seattle over the mountains to Wenatchee. I spent a half day on this flight plan. I would follow a river and a highway towards...