Dead Reckoning

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before but I know how to skydive. Actually, jumping out of perfectly good airplanes is my main bread and butter these days. And with around 20,000 jumps in m...

https://kerrymccauley.com/wordpress1/2022/08/25/200-way/

I like flying twin engine aircraft. I like the extra speed you (usually) get by doubling the engines. I like the extra complexity you get by having twice the buttons, dials, knobs and levers to f...

https://kerrymccauley.com/wordpress1/2022/08/24/single-engine-operation-vmc/

Marcio stabs off the autopilot and gently raises the nose of the Phenom. Then the white centerline appears in the hazy beam of our landing light. “It looks like we’re going to live today.” ...

https://kerrymccauley.com/wordpress1/2022/08/20/committed-part-3/

I wasn’t terribly surprised. Our alternate airport at Pevek was north west of Anadyr and would be getting the bad weather sooner that Anadyr. “What do you want to do man? What do you think?�...

https://kerrymccauley.com/wordpress1/2022/08/19/committed-part-2/

I think I might have mentioned once or twice that I’m an international TV star. OK, “star” might be a bit of an exaggeration. I was, for a brief span of time, on the DIscovery Channel serie...

https://kerrymccauley.com/wordpress1/2022/08/17/committed/

Number One Son finally took his checkride last month and got his Private Pilot’s License. It’s been a long journey to the finish line. Connor started his flying career sitting on my lap at th...

https://kerrymccauley.com/wordpress1/2022/08/16/checking-out-the-new-guy/

Well, I finally got off my lazy rear end this last winter and spring and wrote another book. DANGEROUS FLIGHTS is about the ferry trips and experiences I had while on the Discovery Channel TV sho...

https://kerrymccauley.com/wordpress1/2022/08/15/dangerous-flights-2/

Back when the earth was cooling and dinosaurs still roamed the upper midwest I was a young man learning the art of aviation in two very non-traditional ways. The pilots and mentors who influenced...

https://kerrymccauley.com/wordpress1/2022/08/14/quazys-takeoff/

No, I’m not talking about the whole censorship controversy going on these days. I’m talking about all the attention my book “Ferry Pilot” has gotten over the last few weeks. (For the reco...

https://kerrymccauley.com/wordpress1/2022/02/02/free-press/

It seems that no matter how hard I try to forget that I have a blog, (and the obligation to sit down and post) some of you won’t let me forget it. Fine. I’ll keep posting if for nothing else ...

https://kerrymccauley.com/wordpress1/2022/01/30/ok-ok-ill-keep-posting/