Piloting

We both started our pilot training in 2001, but after the Sepember 11th attacks we both were forced to take about a month off, and although we flew some over that winter, when we got our kit Velocity in the spring of 2002 I essentially stopped flying until after the kit was built. Elizabeth kept flying so she'd be ready to test fly the Velocity. She did that (issued 14 September 2010), and I finished my training after the Velocity was basically a solid flying platform, getting my certificate (Part 61 Private Pilot, Single Engine Land) in 27 January 2013, my complex (27 April 2013) in Lebanon's Arrow and high performance endorsements (29 March 2013) at Sporty's in their G1000 182 Cessna, and my sUAS (Par 107 commercial drone) on 15 August 2020. I received my Velocity factory type endorsement on 16 April 2014. I was also awarded the Repairman Certificate for our Velocity on 13 July 2007. I also have 1 hour of turbo prop instruction in the Legend from 24 September 2016.

Brett

My flight career started the same time as Elizabeth's in the summer of 2001, and with a month-long interuption by the attacks of 9/11/01. I did solo and flew a bit more into 2002, but as we headed off to [ Head Start] and started buying airplane parts it became clear that I would not be able to build the kit and finish my flight training.

So, we decided to get Elizabeth fully qualified while I built. When the airplane was done in 2007 she started doing the test flying, and I kept fixing the myriad of things that needed to be tweaked, and then we had our incident. I then had to fix that damage, and we went ahead and painted and installed an interior (and upgraded the instrument panel and electric), and long story short (I know - too late!) I didn't get back to finishing my license until 2011.

Click Here to see Brett's flight logbook.

Elizabeth

Pictures

Brett's Checkride

Airport's We've Visited

Page	ID	Name
I68	I68	Lebanon/Warren County Airport - John Lane Field
KMGY	KMGY	Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport
KMWO	KMWO	Middletown Regional Airport/Hook Field
I23	I23	Fayette County Airport (Washington Courthouse)
KTZR	KTZR	Bolton Field Airport
I69	I69	Clermont County Airport - Sporty's Academy and Flight Shop (Home of EAA Chapter 174)
KHAO	KHAO	Butler County Regional Airport - Hogan Field (Home of EAA Chapter 974)
2OH9	2OH9	Caesar Creek Soaring Club Gliderport
KLUK	KLUK	Cincinnati Municipal Airport-Lunken Field
KDAY	KDAY	James M Cox Dayton International Airport
KISZ	KISZ	Cincinnati Blue Ash Airport
KMIE	KMIE	Delaware County Regional Airport - Muncie, IN
I44	I44	Dahio Trotwood Airport
KOXD	KOXD	Miami University Airport
KCMH	KCMH	John Glenn Columbus International Airport
X26	X26	Sebastian Municipal Airport (Home of Velocity Aircraft)
KOSH	KOSH	Wittman Regional Airport
2I3	2I3	John Glenn Columbus International Airport
40I	40I	Red Stewart Airfield
I19	I19	Greene County-Lewis A Jackson Regional Airport
KSGH	KSGH	Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport
I66	I66	Clinton Field Airport
KRID	KRID	Richmond Municipal Airport
I73	I73	Moraine Air Park
I74	I74	Urbana Grimes Field Airport
I61	I61	I61 Hagerstown Airport
KHGR	KHGR	KHGR Hagerstown Regional Airport-Richard A Henson Field (Home of AOPA)
KJST	KJST	John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport
KWWD	KWWD	Cape May / Wildwood Airport
35D	35D	Padgham Field Airport
3I7	3I7	Dayton-Phillipsburg Airport
OH71	OH71	OH71 (formerly 37I) Troy Skypark Airport
1WF	1WF	Waco Field Airport
I17	I17	Piqua Airport - Hartzell Field
KVES	KVES	Darke County Airport
KIRS	KIRS	Kirsch Municipal Airport (Sturgis, MI)
KPCW	KPCW	Erie-Ottawa International Airport (Port Clinton)
KTEL	KTEL	Perry County Municipal Airport (Tell City, IN)
KFRH	KFRH	French Lick Municipal Airport
TKI	TKI	McKinney National Airport
KCPF	KCPF	Wendell H Ford Airport (Formerly K20)
KHLG	KHLG	Wheeling Ohio County Airport
KAOO	KAOO	Altoona-Blair County Airport
KFLD	KFLD	Fond Du Lac County Airport
KEKX	KEKX	Addington Field Airport
KEOP	KEOP	Pike County Airport
KFRH	KFRH	French Lick Municipal Airport
KCYO	KCYO	Pickaway County Memorial Airport
KCVG	KCVG	Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport
KMLB	KMLB	Melbourne International Airport
KX59	KX59	Valkaria Airport