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A rampee picks me up at six, which doesn't give a lot of time for me to get everything ready for a six-thirty departure. I have to do a weight and balance and flight plan, preflight inspection and r

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My car decided to begin acting up a few days ago, misfiring on one cylinder. Since I’m automotive savvy I started with the obvious - check the ignition system. As time went on, things got progre

The Royal Air Force at play:

OK, so I've built an APRS Tracker to show where the airplane is flying. It uses the amateur radio APRS network and operates on radio frequency energy. It'll show our travels to any Amateur Radio APR

A buddy of mine told me today that a squatter had registered flywithblake.com. I'm not sure if I should feel honoured (that my site is la

I said in an earlier post that Milen and I would be going somewhere to a "far away destination" this week. Perhaps I

The window people are here ripping out one of the upstairs windows and replacing it with vinyl. The window is over the pool, so they've devised a complicated system of boards and ladders over the poo

I’ve been very busy recently and haven’t had time for posts. The summer flying season is a busy one! I have a number of things aviation-related that deserve some discussion and I’l

I'm in Nassau, Bahamas. It was a 3 1/2 hour trip, and when I left Toronto I was wearing my fleecy vest, but when I stepped off the plane in Nassau, I had to change into shorts and sandals immediately

I'm in Nassau, Bahamas. It was a 3 1/2 hour trip, and when I left Toronto I was wearing my fleecy vest, but when I stepped off the plane in Nassau, I had to change into shorts and sandals immediately

I came across an issue of Popular Mechanics from 1929. Wow, I didn't even know these parts were populated with literate people then. It must have come in by dogsled. Looking through the pages, I di

A CFI from another airport has a couple of students who want to work out of ANE in a Warrior. Someone from the skool was nice enough to refer him to me for the aircraft checkout. We'll use IFR Warri

This weekend will be my first one off this month. Our squadron tracks the hours we have flown in the last 30, 60, and 90 days. I have flown over 60 hours in the last 30 days and almost 110 in the la

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