Dan Moore, Author at Air Facts Journal

Dan Moore

After a successful career Dan sold his business to spend time with his three children (yeah!) and his adoring wife (when are you going back to work?). He has SEL and MEL instrument tickets and a rotorcraft license. He once held a ProCard from FlightSafety for the BE-20, a personal best as a PPL. Dan is partner in a PA-32R, a Citabria 7KCAB, a 1st Lieutenant with a national volunteer organization as a mission pilot, and is building a Just Aircraft SuperSTOL with his son. You can read about his latest flying shenanigans at www.farmerflier.com or his farming misadventures at www.ninjacowfarm.com.

I was there October 25, 2018 October 25, 2018

It was a smooth day until that one big bounce

After eight days on the ground working on behalf of a national non-profit emergency services group running one of their Points of Distribution sites in Wilmington, North Carolina, I was ready for some air time. Lucky for me, one of the final air missions of Hurricane Florence was on the books for the following day and they were in need of a mission pilot.

I Can't Believe I Did That April 5, 2018 April 5, 2018

What are we deviating for?

I should be in bed. That was the thought that was going through my head as I bounced off the ceiling, again, and basically was tossed around like a dog with a toy. Unfortunately, my airplane and I were the toy, not the dog. We’d flown inadvertently into a thunderstorm.