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so today i celebrate my 29th birthday. i rolled out of bed with sore legs, and i haven't even done anything.
my thoughtful wife woke me up this morning at 3:55 am, completely destroying my idea t

I’ve not flown a real aircraft in far too long…approaching a month now, actually. I’m half anxious to get airborne again, and half dissapointed at the fact that it’

For those of you who know Shantanu, he passed his private checkride today.

I have been a lousy father lately. Working a job that requires weekly travel and going to school full time pretty much insures that.

Sunday morning I decide to step up and take all three

I have been a lousy father lately. Working a job that requires weekly travel and going to school full time pretty much insures that.

Sunday morning I decide to step up and take all three

I have been a lousy father lately. Working a job that requires weekly travel and going to school full time pretty much insures that.

Sunday morning I decide to step up and take all three

Again I must apologize for the length of time it's been since I added anything to my blog. The summer has been busy, and my free time

My spiral notebook since I got off the bus has been not so much a daily journal as a collection of lists. Things to do, people to call, things to tell my ex-boss if I ever get a hold of him, and a

I was doing a preflight one day and exited the jet way to go down to the ground level for an exterior check of my aircraft.  We do this on every flight.  This flight happened to be

One year ago I decided to get my pilots licence, actually on Aug. 27th it was one year to the day that I took my first flight in a small GA aircraft.

I remember being handed control of the

I once said that, like Jimmy Buffett in "The Wino and I Know," I would like to live my life like a song. As I mentioned in my previous post, a job change is in the works, so the next song would be "Ch

The flight home from New York was good, the weather is beautiful in Toronto today. The passengers were happy, and I really have nothing to report.

Tomorrow, I'm heading back to New York c

The flight home from New York was good, the weather is beautiful in Toronto today. The passengers were happy, and I really have nothing to report.

Tomorrow, I'm heading back to New York c

Final preparations have begun for the 2006 Cleveland National Airshow.

Seen so far today:

Arrival of Blue Angel #7.

Low P

Final preparations have begun for the 2006 Cleveland National Airshow.

Seen so far today:

Arrival of Blue Angel #7.

Low P

Final preparations have begun for the 2006 Cleveland National Airshow.

Seen so far today:

Arrival of Blue Angel #7.

Low P

Final preparations have begun for the 2006 Cleveland National Airshow.

Seen so far today:

Arrival of Blue Angel #7.

Low P

HOORAY! Yesterday I had my first visitor. It doesn't sound too promising that he entered my aviation related blog from Terrorism News site. It seems t

I was doing a preflight one day and exited the jet way to go down to the ground level for an exterior check of my aircraft.  We do this on every flight.  This flight happened to be

One year ago I decided to get my pilots licence, actually on Aug. 27th it was one year to the day that I took my first flight in a small GA aircraft.

I remember being handed control of the

I grew up in Pheonix, and then lived for five years in Colorado, so my whole life has been spent in dry climates with less than green foliage. Now living in Mississippi, the humidity has taken some g

One aspect

One aspec

Final preparations have begun for the 2006 Cleveland National Airshow.

Seen so far today:

Arrival of Blue Angel #7.

Low P

Final preparations have begun for the 2006 Cleveland National Airshow.

Seen so far today:

Arrival of Blue Angel #7.

Low P

Anytime we went flying in one of the practice areas, we were supposed to look out for a little yellow airplane. Apparently, this guy is a cropduster. If we ever saw him, even if we were 3,000 feet u

"Climb thrust..."

And so anoth

I'm giving serious consideration to exporting all my flying and aviation related entries to a a new blog altogether.  I know I'm not posting much but it just seems to make more sense to push th

Sorry, I haven't posted many pictures recently, but I've been on vacation and have been away from my source. I still don't go back for a while and when I do, I'll be off on a 12 day Asian trip. So f

HOORAY! Yesterday I had my first visitor. It doesn't sound too promising that he entered my aviation related blog from Terrorism News site. It seems t

"Climb thrust..."

And so anoth

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