This day started with friends and employees seeing me off as I got ready in my hangar and then took off for Oklahoma City. Two videos were done of this departure. One was the actual take off as it occurred filmed my Michelle on her little camera, the second video was taken by Kenny who [...]
Archive for May, 2009
What didn’t work and problems on our flights to and from Leeds, England
May 25th, 2009 by jeffrey
Before I start telling you about each leg of the flight, it’s joys and tribulations, I thought I would list our equipment failures which are amazing and numerous.
No chart data for North Atlantic and Central Europe…fixed before leaving Goose Bay, Canada
No navigational data for the Garmin 1000 past Canada…not fixed yet
Localizer failure in Kevlavik, Iceland [...]
Tags: efb, electronic flight bag, england, Garmin, gps failure, leeds, localizer
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Don Ratliff’s opinion of Jeff Miller’s flight across the North Atlantic
May 25th, 2009 by jeffrey
During this holiday weekend I have had some time to think about my fabulous trip to Europe with my new found friend Jeff Miller in his superbly equipped late model Cessna T182.
Let me begin by saying that I learned a lot about Jeff, starting from the very first day we spoke about the trip, and [...]
A global perspective of lessons learned.
May 22nd, 2009 by jeffrey
The totality of this experience is so immense that it appears I must start first with the global then to the specific.
What have I learned?
How to prepare Miss Behavin’ for the journey.
How to prepare myself for the journey.
What I did not prepare for properly.
How much equipment can fail on one journey.
How to pack Miss Behavin’ [...]
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Intense, Immense, Life Threatening, Life Saving…WAY COOL!
May 22nd, 2009 by jeffrey
These words penned by a poet I don’t remember say it all so beautifully:
From the beginning of a journey
To a trip to the moon
To the start of thing to come
A journey to remember
Till the end of time
To the beginning…
This journey was so intense because of it’s required focus on detail and flying and lessons learned.
This [...]
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Heading Home…
May 20th, 2009 by Lisa
Just a quick update…I spoke with Jeff at about 8:00 o’clock this morning. Yesterday he landed safely back in the USA in Bangor, Maine. Today he is flying back in our direction heading for home in California. We will continue to track Jeff on his journey home and we are all looking so forward to [...]
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The Journey home begins…
May 16th, 2009 by Lisa
I spoke with Jeff at 5:30 this morning, once again from a high altitude, in the middle of nowhere while flying over the North Atlantic Ocean heading towards Iceland. Jeff and Don are only about 1 hour out and they are anticipating a much smoother landing this time as the weather is being more cooperative!!! [...]
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While Daddy is away……
May 14th, 2009 by Spooky
Spooky here…..
I am taking good care of everything in Marina del Rey while my Dad is away.
I spend my days doing paperwork
In the afternoon, I work out my upper body
Which makes me EXHAUSTED!!!!
So I find myself over the rainbow………..Thanks to Auntie Roni!!!
That’s all for now.
I’m off to take a nap!
MEOW~
Spooky
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