Dan Flies

  • Oshkosh 2023: The Journey Day 2

    The replacement starter took longer to arrive than we’d hoped, with FedEx deciding that the best way to get the new motor from London to Reykjavík, on their highest priority service, was via Germany. To save a day or two, as soon as it had cleared customs on Wednesday lunchtime we went to the depot…

    Daniel Foster

  • Oshkosh 2023: The Journey Day 1

    After months of planning and a build up of forms, calls, and bookings over the past couple of weeks, the time for flying had come. We arrived at Hawarden airfield near Chester, where N302MC is based before 10:00 with a planned departure at 11:00. The aircraft was already packed with everything we needed, so just…

    Daniel Foster

  • Oshkosh 2023 outbound route

    Oshkosh 2023 outbound route

    David and I are flying Cessna T310Q N302MC to Oshkosh this year. Starting from the aircraft’s base at Hawarden near Chester in the UK (EGNR), our route west takes us via: This is sometimes known as the Northern route, as it passes over the north of Greenland and its icecap. The views should be stunning!…

    Daniel Foster

  • New blog

    I used to write about flying on an old blog but haven’t done so for ages. Here’s a new blog, let’s see how long I can keep this up for. I’m flying to Oshkosh later this month, so the motivation was to have somewhere to put details of that trip.

    Daniel Foster

I’m Dan. I’m a CPL holding, instrument rated private pilot.

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