MSFS – IFR Approaches

Have microsoft flight simulator and would like to practice various IFR approaches.  Anyone have some experience here that I could lean on?   Thanks, JT

N9421D Sale

N9421D went up for sale on 4/1/2021. As of yesterday we signed a purchase agreement to sell our Cessna 172RG Cutlass to Jeff Air Pilot Services in Greenwood Indiana. Closing is expected to take place early next week, 4/12 or 4/13. We plan to replace this aircraft with...

Web Site Statistics

We’ve been running a “statistics” app on our website since I redid it a few years ago. Some of the stats are interesting, in my opinion. First, here’s the number of page hits and different visitors (discrete IP addresses) that we’ve had visiting our site. Note that I...

New Mission, Vision and Core Values Statements

One of the items that came out of our annual board meeting in early February was the desire to develop Mission, Vision and Core Values Statements for our club. These “ideals” describe who we want to be (vision), what we are doing to get there (mission) and...

New Maintenance Data Avialable via Web Site

Our newly-minted maintenance officer, Michael Turik, has been busy since he was elected in December. He and our club secretary, Bill Smith have resurrected, revived and reworked a maintenance tracking spreadsheet for all of our aircraft. We’ve posted a read-only...

New Fleet Photos & Picnic Success

Saturday, 9/29, we held the Sky-Vu picnic in the Cirrus’ hangar at UMP. We estimate about 55 attendees, and all seemed to have a great time. We also assembled all 5 of the Sky-Vu aircraft on the ramp at UMP for a photo shoot. I’ve created a...

N9421D Interior Upgrade is Complete!!!

Well, it took about 160 man-hours, but we’ve finished the interior upgrade on 21D. I think Ron Diamond, Bill Smith and I are all in agreement that the Airtex materials are top-notch. Everything fit very well. The sidewall panels were challenging to fit, cut,...

Progress on N9421D’s Interior!!

Ron Diamond, Bill Smith and I are about 70 man-hours into the upgrade of 21D’s interior. We completed the tear-out, and last night we finished the seats. They look GREAT!  They aren’t perfect, but they are darn close. Additional thanks to Jon Gillam for repairing and...

New Front End for Schedule Master Web Portal

Hey Guys! Schedule Master has been working with a new “front end” user interface for their scheduling page for quite some time. You may have played with it, as it has been available as a “beta” interface over the last year or so. I’ve...

9421D Interior Refurbishment Has Begun!

We’ve ordered the interior materials for the seats, floor and walls of in N9421D.  The picture above represents the colors and materials that were chosen for this upgrade. One difference is that we’ve chosen to go with vinyl flooring in the foot-traffic...

SOLD! Garmin GNS 430W Units From N716CD

Most of you probably already know that we recently completed the avionics upgrades in N716CD to bring her up to ADS-B compliance as we’ve done with the rest of the fleet. This involved replacing the Mode-S transponder with a Garmin GTX 345 ADS-B compliant...

New Interior Ordered for N9421D

Well, guys…it’s happening. We have placed the order for the new interior (seats, wall panels and carpet) for N9421D!! We are expecting delivery of the materials in about 10 weeks and intend to do the bulk of the install during the annual in late March....

Garmin GNS 430W WAAS Units For Sale

Update – 4/11/2018 – Both units were sold back in January.  We are getting an occasional “hit” on these through web searches…guys emailing to ask if we still have them. We do not, they’ve been sold.  Sorry!! Hey Guys!  N716CD is in...

69th and 70th Membership Spots Filled

Warm welcomes to Tom Ronan and Alex Stark, who represent our 69th and 70th Sky-Vu members. Both were oriented this week and are excited about joining us! Tom is a private pilot who has been out of flying for a couple of years and is anxious to get back into the...