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Neighborly Pool
The other day I awoke to the sound of jackhammers pounding away at something. It turns out the neighbors were having some work done around the house, and after asking them about it they said they're redoing their pool.
I volunteered to take a picture of the new pool from the air, but my first time out I was flying and didn't describe the property ( Read more... ) -
Flight Review Day
Having gotten a decent amount of sleep, I went in to work with certificated flight instructor (CFI) Tyler from Volare Helicopters https://www.volarehelicopters.com/. They used to be based out of Marana Regional Airport ( Read more... ) -
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Another hiatus gone by the wayside...
On February 29th of 2020 I did my last flight before my Biennial Flight Review (BFR) expired. While I was planning to have a new BFR in March of 2020, COVID-19 exploded and no vaccinations were available. So I delayed. In mid-March 2021 I got my first of two shots but before I could schedule that flight ( Read more... ) -
LiveJournal Tracks Users
So I was going to type in a post here, and my ad-blockers and tracker-blockers showed me a blank page. I had to disable them (Ghostery and uBlock Origin) to post here. The good news: disabling them allowed me to post. The bad news: LiveJournal is using trackers and I'll have to avoid using LiveJournal going forward
Next step: figure out how to ( Read more... ) -
"I'll be back in the saddle again..." -- Steve Winwood
December 2016 was a dreary month. During one such gray cloud-covered sky hinting at rain and often delivering, my job was to drive to the hangar to hand over the keys to Tango Three's last remaining aircraft asset, N4204X. The buyer had come over from Louisiana earlier, test flew the aircraft, and was willing to meet the requested price.
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Questions are a burden to others. Answers a burden to oneself --The Prisoner
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is charged with a variety of duties, which if you've watched police shows on television usually means investigating crime. Lately the FBI has changed its focus from law enforcement to national security. That means they too are locating the elusive terrorists. So far, the only terrorists the FBI has caught ( Read more... ) -
Wind in my Sales
On Halloween 2008 I took my demo ride/. Five years later to the day I picked up N4204X at Orlando Executive Airport and CFI Kent Stevens and I had an adventure piloting it back to Tucson. On our four day trip we hit a sudden squal line, set down in Tallahassee, which was overbooked due to an NCAA men's basketball game. We made the best of it, ( Read more... ) -
Wind in my sails
Sunday the 11th we talked about the weather. The Navigator had been looking up stuff on Skyvector and NOAA and other sites and said Tuesday was going to really be a windy horrible day. We'd been planning to leave Monday so that seemed fine. I should have checked to see HOW horrible Tuesday would be and what that would be on Monday. My previous ( Read more... ) -
More lessons learned
When I first started flying I was told that there were "plateaus", much as there are in working out, losing weight, etc. and at those plateaus people who know things turn into complete idiots. I was told pilots make huge mistakes at about 100 hours... 200 hours... 500 hours. I could not imagine that I would ever do any of those things, and when I ( Read more... ) -
The six Ps.
The six Ps: Piss Poor Planning Prevents Proper Performance ( Read more... )