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I’ve worn multi focals for years. Your eyes naturally find the part of the contact you need to use. As I’ve gotten older, I need “cheaters” at work to read in dim light, but otherwise they work great.

Landings shouldn’t be the big issue except for the pattern altitude which should be 600 AGL, but pretty tight. I think take offs are harder on traffic flow since the gyro has to sit on the runway while the rotor spools up and it has to be fairly gradual. It usually took a minute or two.

I actually tried to get the sport pilot gyroplane cert two weeks ago. I had hoped to do it in a 5 day, 2 lessons a day, schedule but I came up a little short. Basic air maneuvers are pretty easy and I knocked them out in an hour or two. Takeoffs kicked my butt. As someone mentioned, you...

WAAAM was a pleasant surprise. I lived in the Portland area 17 years before I even heard about it. The planes are in immaculate shape and I think they have the world’s oldest flying Boeing aircraft as well as some aircraft over 100 years old. There’s a fly In every September and they take out...

I was in the cadet program in the PA Wing from 68 to 76 and it was a really valuable experience. Out i it I got my first plane ride (in an Ercoupe), a few rides in a T-34 owned by the wing, first ride in a helicopter during a SAR Mission, got to fly gliders in Great Britain as part of the Air...

I was away from flying 38 years. I got my licence at 18 and flew a few couple of hours a year until I was a married, 22 year old Army 2LT making $730 a month so flying became a pastime I couldn’t afford. I had always wanted to get back to it and two years ago I decided it was time. The good...