My name is Barry Orlando. This is the new home of my flying adventures for 2008 and beyond.  I will be posting items of interest for the would-be pilot and pilots in general. Family and friends can catch up on my flying here as well. I am a private pilot living in the Finger Lakes region of New York State and earned my ticket in mid-October of 2007 after three years of training, four different flight instructors, and by attending three different flight schools. I moved three times during all of my flight training and during this same time period I married my wife Sherry and together we built a house in the hills over looking Canandaigua Lake. My home base is the Penn Yan Flying Club in Penn Yan, New York and I fly N73450 – a 180 HP Cessna 172 built in 1976. It’s a nice plane and the flying club has various other aircraft to fly.