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	<header class="entry-header"><h1 class="entry-title">Flying and Stuff</h1></header><!-- .entry-header -->
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<p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-44 aligncenter" src="https://pfactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/phil-and-nancy-about-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://pfactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/phil-and-nancy-about-300x225.jpg 300w, https://pfactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/phil-and-nancy-about-150x113.jpg 150w, https://pfactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/phil-and-nancy-about.jpg 320w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p>I’m Phil Verghese, and I&#8217;ve been hooked on flying for as long as I can remember. I&#8217;ve been flying for more than 25 years and have over 4,000 flight hours (including over 900 hours of instruction given, and 350 hours of formation flight time). I&#8217;m a commercial pilot, an airplane and instrument flight instructor (<abbr title="Certificated Flight Instructor - Instrument">CFII</abbr>), and a <a title="Formation Flying, Inc" href="http://ffi.aero/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FFI</a> Formation Lead Pilot (that&#8217;s me leading a 4-ship formation below).</p>
<p><a href="https://pfactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/download_20161022_201047.jpg"><img decoding="async" src="https://pfactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/download_20161022_201047-1024x589.jpg" alt="4 Mooneys in a diamond formation" width="474" height="273" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-1267" srcset="https://pfactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/download_20161022_201047-1024x589.jpg 1024w, https://pfactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/download_20161022_201047-300x173.jpg 300w, https://pfactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/download_20161022_201047-150x86.jpg 150w, https://pfactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/download_20161022_201047-768x442.jpg 768w, https://pfactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/download_20161022_201047-1536x884.jpg 1536w, https://pfactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/download_20161022_201047-2048x1179.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px" /></a></p>
<p>My wife Nancy and I own a wonderful 1977 Mooney 201. Nancy is also a pilot and we’ve published from some of our flying adventures in the <a href="/trips-toc/">Trip Journals</a> section of this site. People seem to really enjoy reading our two different perspectives about our flying trips.</p>
<h3 class="title">What the heck is pfactor?</h3>
<p>P-factor is one of the forces acting on an airplane when the blades of the propeller create asymmetric thrust.</p>
<p>If you’re really interested read <a href="http://www.av8n.com/how/htm/yaw.html#sec-p-factor">this explanation</a>. I liked the name pfactor for this website, since my first name starts with P.</aside>
<h3>Trip Journals</h3>
<p>We&#8217;ve flown ourselves all over the U.S. and a little bit in Canada and written about them in our <a href="/wordpress/trips-toc/">Trip Journals</a>. One of our most popular journals is our <a href="https://pfactor.com/tripjournals/2006-oshkosh-and-beyond-part-1/">trip to Oshkosh and Washington, DC</a>.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a map of some of our bigger flights. The <span style="color:#248a0d">green lines</span> have links to stories about those trips; the <span style="color:#DC7814">orange lines</span> are trips that don&#8217;t have stories written.</p>
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<h3>Flight Videos</h3>
<p>I&#8217;ve posted many flight videos to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/philv0123/">my YouTube channel</a>. Here&#8217;s a sample of a few of them.</p>
<div class="videoThumbnailDiv alignleft"><a class="videoThumbnail" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSmJb2VQTWI" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/eSmJb2VQTWI/maxresdefault.jpg"/></a>Sunset flight over Santa Cruz</div>
<div class="videoThumbnailDiv alignleft clearnone"><a class="videoThumbnail" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrZLChm3eVM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/xrZLChm3eVM/maxresdefault.jpg"/></a>Missing man formation flight for the funeral of a U.S. Army veteran.</div>
<div class="videoThumbnailDiv alignleft clearnone"><a class="videoThumbnail" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYCh7rr0Luk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/zYCh7rr0Luk/maxresdefault.jpg"/></a>Instrument approach to Sioux Falls, South Dakota (KFSD)</div>
<div class="videoThumbnailDiv alignleft clearnone"><a class="videoThumbnail" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Sj9upBcv4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/t4Sj9upBcv4/maxresdefault.jpg"/></a>My shortest IFR flight ever: KRHV-KSQL</div>
<h3 class="clearleft" style="padding-top: 2em">Posts about Flying</h3>
<p>See the <a href="https://pfactor.com/category/flying/">Flying section</a> for stories and articles I&#8217;ve written about flying and owning an airplane.</p>
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