Slick Wing Aviation

All good things come to an end! With Robs departure from active duty and my pending retirement, it was time to let Slick Wing fly off into the sunset. All flight operations have ceased and N-46211 has already found her new home in Chicago. She was a solid workhorse, allowing us to fly 1000.7 hours over the last 34 months....a 29.4 hour per month average! This included 4 new Private Pilot Checkride, and one CFI checkride. We could not have asked for a better airport too, as we gained lots of friends at the Monroe County Airport (M40). We would finally like to thank all those that made Slick Wing possible, and we wish all of our friends enroute tailwinds and smooth landings!

Cheers,
Shot and Hoser!

Proud of Kaelan B passing his Private Pilot Checkride today!!! Wishing you lots of enroute tail winds and smooth landings!!!

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We also hope you enjoyed some time off....we sure did!

Starting the New Year off with a passed CFI checkride...congrats to Pete R...we know you will teach well!!!

Busy weekend!!

O where, O where has my little plane been? Try a 1800+ mile journey to Albuquerque NM! Longest trip to date for Slick Wing!!

After a 100 inspection complete with oil change, two new main tires, and a wash, 46211 flies again!! We took advantage of the great weather and flew a XC to BHM and two XC's to 15M...one dual and then one solo (flown by Kaelan toward his PPL requirements)...a solid 8.1 hours this weekend!

N-46211 is down for a 100 inspection...lots of flying since the annual in July. She will be back in the air starting this Saturday!

Congrats to Dougg on knocking out a large portion of his Instrument Rating requirements in one weekend....950 miles, 11.9 hours flight time (half of which was actual IMC), 9K max altitude, 4 instrument approaches, 3 different airports (TYS, GSO, VPC), 1 Tennessee flyby, 1 Smoky Mountain crossing, 1 high aspect taxi merge with a RJ, and 1 real work divert (planned destination weather below mins)

Today's schedule:
1) Ron P: Commercial Maneuvers
2) Stefan M: Private Maneuvers
3) Michael O: Checkout
4) Scott M: ROTC Cadet getting hours for UPT Board
5) Connor T: ROTC Cadet getting hours for UPT Board

What a GREAT day of flying!!!!

M40 runway is freshly repaved and back open for business!!

During our stay at GTR, the FBO folks at AVFLIGHT COLUMBUS were AWESOME! Great line service, beautiful FBO, and you can't beat the free ice cream sandwich either! If you can't make it to M40, we recommend you stop by and see them.

While we were gone, our PPL lessons continued, and we would also like to congratulate Hans K on finishing his checkout with us.