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Notes from the rampat PDK.
How the trips actually go, where the airplane lands, what we would tell a friend. Written by the people who fly the airplane. No filler.
September 17, 2026 · 6 min
Two years and 204,487 miles in the Epic E1000 GX. It does more than the book says.
Speed, range, payload, short field: pick two, they tell you. Here is what two years, 442 flights and five Atlantic crossings in ours actually looked like.
September 16, 2026 · 5 min
Atlanta has sixteen private airports. Here is how to pick yours.
Hartsfield is one option, and usually the wrong one. A plain guide to PDK, Falcon Field, Cobb, Gwinnett and the fields most Atlantans have never used.
September 15, 2026 · 4 min
Leaf season from PDK: Highlands, Asheville and the Blue Ridge in under forty minutes
October in the mountains without the four-hour crawl up 441. Which airport for which town, and why the small ones are the point.
September 14, 2026 · 4 min
30A and Destin from Atlanta in an hour
The Emerald Coast is a five-and-a-half-hour drive or a sixty-minute flight. How the beach trip works from PDK, and which airport to use.
September 12, 2026 · 5 min
Game day by air: Athens, Auburn, Tuscaloosa and Knoxville from Atlanta
Southeastern football weekends without the interstate. Where the airplane lands, how long it takes, and how the day goes.
September 10, 2026 · 5 min
Why we fly a turboprop instead of a jet
People ask, politely, why a charter company in Atlanta bought an Epic E1000 GX and not a Citation. The short version is runways and arithmetic.
September 8, 2026 · 4 min
Called at two, dinner on Sea Island at six-thirty
What a same-day private flight from Atlanta actually looks like, told through the trip that made us write it down.