The Aspiring Pilot

Aviation Universe Grand Opening tomorrow!

Some of my fellow Chicago area pilots MAY remember AviationWorld O'Hare in Bensenville? Well, when that store was shut down by the Canadian parent company,  two of it's companies didn't give up on the concept of a pilot supply and aviation enthusiast store in the area around O'Hare.  Lora Yowell and Richard Wells are back, and with them comes another store in Bensenville, Aviation Universe! The store caters to aviation enthusiasts and pilots; however, without being run by a Canadian customer, they are able to focus their inventory on what the local demand is and also decrease the time needed to process special order and requests. For more info, see my Examiner.com article on their grand opening: http://www.examiner.com/article/new-store-for-pilots-and-aviation-enthusiasts-coming-to-bensenville

I'll try and increase the number of blog posts, I promise!

Wow, two months without a post! Guess life caught up and snatched away all my free time! I even slowed down on the Examiner.com side, but was able to get 4 articles up this month finally. Need to get this blog active again. I've done nothing with my goal of getting back up in the air since I got my medical in February. Funding got tight, extra time disappeared. Spring is here so that now brings out soccer and me coaching both my kids teams. I've been spending more time at the fire department, which on top of my full-time job eats up the rest of my time! MAYBE this summer I'll be able to get back in the air and start on my flight review to get current; though with a family vacation planned in the middle of summer, that will crimp the budget a bit as well. 

Hoepfully I can get this blog active again, get some decent ad revenue in (still haven't hit the payout threshold on Google AdSense yet, but half way there!) and hopefully get my examiner.com articles flowing regularly again. 

Time for your input as well, if you see the little 'Comment' link just under this post, click it, and tell me what you'd like me to cover, write more about, or even make recommendations for my examiner.com articles on general aviation. I will be covering the Rockford Airfest in June, AirVenture in July and possibly the Chicago Air and Water show in August. Got any other area shows or events, let me know! 

For now, till the next post (no, it won't be two months away!).