From Pro Basketball Player to Twin Commander Pilot
John Hummer says he’s on his third life. The first was as a professional basketball player, then as a pioneering venture capitalist, and now as a retiree who gets to fly around in his cherry 1985 Model 1000 Twin Commander. Given the airplane and how he uses it, it seems like Hummer is having as much success in his third life as he did the first two. Hummer is perhaps best known for his first life, that of professional basketball player. He grew up in Arlington, Virginia, and excelled as a high school athlete. That success took him to Princeton, where he is still regarded as one of the best players in the school’s illustrious basketball tradition. He was the…
From the Flightline
ADVENTURE TRAVEL To the Land of Evolution
In February a customer decided to fly his Turbo Commander from Florida to Panama and Ecuador, heading for the Galapagos Islands on an Air Journey trip to South America. We departed from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, heading first to Panama for…
GARMIN TIPS AND TRICKS How Glass Works
Aircraft with modern glass cockpits no longer need vacuum pump-driven spinning gyros to determine attitude. Instead they have Attitude and Heading Reference Systems (AHRS) to determine the aircraft pitch, roll, and yaw, and have Air Data Computers (ADC) to provide…