N70TB

22/03/2025

Another Class Bravo airport is in the books - this time it was LAX. A fun flight where the taxi time was longer than the flight time!

After ORD, ATL, SFO and JFK, today I'm flying my Bonanza N70TB to another iconic large airport: LAX, Los Angeles International Airport. Come along as my frie...

28/09/2024

This was our flight from Bimini to the US, back in April. Great memories!

Join Martin and Beckey as they head back to the United States in the Bonanza after a few days on Bimini in the Bahamas, and learn about eAPIS and customs pro...

07/09/2024

I just completed a video showing the installation of air conditioning in my A36 Bonanza. I picked the all-electric system from Kelly Aerospace Thermal Systems, and they allowed me to stick around and record the installation, which helped me understand how the system works and also gave me a better appreciation for the effort it takes to do something like this. Beckey and I very much love the result!

We love summer, but boy does it get hot inside an aircraft during the warm season! I recently added the all-electric air conditioning system from Kelly Aeros...

10/08/2024

In this new video you can join me on a flight from Melbourne, FL to Key West. Beckey was already there, and we spent a couple of days there together before continuing to Fort Myers to meet friends there.

The flight was planned to be along Floridas east coast and then along all the keys - a detour, but certainly more scenic than the direct route over the Everglades, and offering more airports along the way for landing in potential emergencies. In the end, ATC routed me much more directly, but at 14,000' I was still in gliding distance of something survivable the whole time.

From the video you can follow a link to FlySto which is the tool I use for data analytics and visualization. You can view the data and replay the entire flight if you like.

Come along on a flight in N70TB, Martin's Beechcraft Bonanza, from Melbourne to Key West in the Sunshine State Florida. Today's flight is at 14,000 feet over...

05/04/2024

Well, THIS had not happened to me in a long, long time: I departed in the Bonanza without loading my flight plan into the GPS. Fortunately, the Garmin GTN 750Xi made this task easy in the air, even with the Tango and Victor airways in my clearance. From then on, Copilot Beckey and I enjoyed a beautiful flight to Savannah, GA.

Well, THIS had not happened to me in a long, long time: I departed in the Bonanza without loading my flight plan into the GPS. Fortunately, the Garmin GTN 75...

18/03/2024

If you needed proof that they'll let ANYONE on a podcast, this is it! Thanks to the nice crew of the Flying Midwest Podcast, I had fun recording this chat!
Here are a couple of links if you want to listen to it:
https://spotify.link/sPdphQF93Hb
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/flying-midwest-podcast/id1601680150?i=1000649517960

23/02/2024

My new video shows a nice flight to Fort Myers’ Page Field. It was the airport I flew to 25 years ago when I first visited Florida. Great airport, great FBO!

Page Field in Fort Myers, FL is a great general aviation airport with a popular FBO, Base Ops. I hadn't been to Page Field in five years, so I was excited wh...

24/12/2023

We had a great time watching the Surfing Santas of Cocoa Beach today!

24/11/2023

Here's another "real-world IFR" flight from October, taking me to the Twin Cities (St. Paul Downtown airport) on a "beautiful" day for instrument flying: low ceilings, no icing, and no convection. As usual with ATC closed captions and close ups of the avionics, so you can see exactly how I deal with all the things ATC throws at me. Come along - let's go fly!

From the "real world IFR" series, this flight takes you to the Twin Cities Minneapolis/St. Paul - specifically, to the St. Paul Downtown airport (KSTP) right...

15/07/2023

I hope you can join us on Tuesday afternoon in Oshkosh (July 25), 4:00 PM for a panel discussion on how to use our airplanes in ways to help and inspire.

YouTube creator, Martin Pauly, will headline the Lifeline Pilots panel at Oshkosh AirVenture this year! He will be joined by the inspirational FlyGirl Kelley and volunteer pilots Mark Hanson and Dr. Warren Bruhl.

You won't believe the fun and creative ways they use aviation to help and inspire others.

Join our panel in the AOPA: your freedom to fly pavilion on Tuesday, July 25, at 4pm.

14/07/2023

From the "sacred-cow-hamburger-tastes-best" series with Doug Rozendaal, today we address the dependency (or lack thereof) between bank angle and stall speed.

Another aviation myth busted by Doug Rozendaal: the relationship between bank angle and stall speed. Private pilot students learn that the stall speed of the...

08/07/2023

In this conversation Dr. Blue explains how pilots can get into trouble due to alcohol and drug abuse as well as mental health issues, and shows paths for returning to the cockpit after a bump in the road. Hopefully this guidance will never be applicable to you - but just in case, here it is!

Dr. Brent Blue, a Senior Aviation Medical Examiner (AME) from Jackson, WY, explains how pilots can into trouble as a result of alcohol and drug abuse as well...

23/06/2023

My flight home from the Beech Bash 2023 was into a stiff (40+ knots) headwind, which not just slowed me down but also required a strategy for avoiding icing (a bit unusual this time of year). Still, it was a fun flight concluding a fun weekend in Madisonville, KY (2I0).

On the last day of April, we are usually enjoying spring weather and mild temperatures. Not so on this flight: wind greater than 40 knots from the northwest ...

19/05/2023

The Beech Bash in the Bluegrass 2023 was a big success! I recorded the flights to and from - here is the flight to Kentucky on a beautiful Friday night. (Spoiler alert: the flight back home on Sunday was more difficult.)

Join me on a flight from Cedar Rapids, IA (KCID) to Madisonville, KY (2I0) for the "Beech Bash in the Bluegrass 2023". It was a great flight and a fun weeken...

21/04/2023

Getting an IFR clearance at a non-towered airport is easy, right? Either they have a transmitter on the ground, or a phone number for ATC published in the Charts Supplement. Or... it can get messy.

Beckey and I were returning from St. Simons Island on a low overcast day - and needed our instrument clearance from ATC before take-off. Piece of cake, right...

26/03/2023

Here is a list of events where you can find me during Sun 'n Fun 2023. Maybe one of my forum topics is of interest for you, or if you'd just like to chat, join the meet & greet on Friday afternoon at Gardner Lowe Aviation Services in Hangar C.

17/03/2023

My panel upgrade is complete - the FAA has approved Aspen's new software for the Evolution PFD, and with that the avionics shop could reinstate the digital autopilot interface between the Aspen Evolution MAX PFD and the Garmin GFC 600 autopilot. At last, I have arrived at the end of this upgrade journey, after about 13 months.

What you see here is what I believe is the very first (and maybe still only, at the time the video was made) airplane which has this new digital autopilot interface between Aspen and Garmin. It allows altitude preselect, native GPSS support, and all those things a state-of-the-art autopilot setup should be able to do today.

A big thank you to the fine people at Gardner Lowe Aviation Services in Peachtree City, GA, who installed my avionics.

My panel upgrade is complete - the FAA has approved Aspen's new software for the Evolution PFD, and with that the avionics shop could reinstate the digital a...

04/03/2023

My recent trip to Gardner Lowe Aviation Services took me back to Falcon Field (KFFC), just south of the Atlanta Class Bravo airspace, and I was itching to find out if I could get a chance to enjoy scenic aerial views of downtown Atlanta and Hartsfield International airport. My plan was to fly the Tango route T319 which crosses KATL north to south, but Air Traffic Control had other plans for me that day. I still got the tour I wanted, but had to cancel IFR and proceed over ATL with a Class Bravo clearance.

I got a video completed from that flight, showing the progression of the clearance from T319 (filed and originally cleared) to the BUKHD3 arrival, to canceling IFR and getting vectors which would take me over downtown and KATL.

I've flown the BUKHD3 arrival before to KFFC, and while in theory it could take one right over KATL, at least that time I was vectored way out to the west. So on this recent flight, I offered to cancel IFR, and I suppose that did the trick for ATC.

Can you fly over downtown Atlanta and Hartsfield International in a small airplane? You sure can - join the flight in this video which takes off from Nashvil...