by Rich Pickett | Jul 7, 2016 | Airplane Cross Country, Featured, Float plane, Flying, Flying Adventures, Mountain Biking
920 NM Flying – 3 days/nights Music/Dancing – 93 miles Mountain Biking We’ve been flying to Quincy CA – Gansner Field (2O1) since the early 1980s and it never fails to be a magical place to visit. Located in Plumas County and the Sierras...
by Rich Pickett | Jun 4, 2016 | Airplane Cross Country, Featured, Flying, Flying Adventures
Flying to the Grand Canyon – KMYF – KGCN Four weeks after breaking my ribs while mountain biking in Sedona , I was back on the bike in the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Biking the South Rim of the Grand Canyon is quite different than Sedona....
by Rich Pickett | Jul 10, 2014 | Featured, Flight Training and Instruction, Float plane, Flying, Seaplane
If you haven’t thought about adding a Seaplane rating to your license, you should! I’ve considered it for years, however it wasn’t until this summer, 2014, that I put my plan in place. My only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner!...
by Rich Pickett | Apr 29, 2014 | Bahamas travel, Featured, Flying, Greater Good
A Little Background In 2010, over a span of 3 weeks, with the generous support of aircraft owners who gave me access to their planes, friends who helped financially, and those that helped with flying, I was able to make over 70 flights in support of earthquake relief...
by Rich Pickett | Mar 5, 2014 | Featured, Flying
In March 2014, I had an opportunity to visit Alaska for my aviation consulting with a friend in a Citation CJ3. Flying up to Alaska offers some of the most stunning scenery I’ve seen. Our departure point for the last leg to Anchorage was Hillsboro...
by Rich Pickett | Mar 4, 2014 | Featured, Flying, Mexico travel
We are fortunate to have a great country just to the south to visit, Mexico. I’m writing this on our trip from MYF (Montgomery Field, San Diego) to Puerto Vallarta (MMPR), a 4.5 hour flight with friends in their Piper Meridian with one stop in Ciudad...
