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I wrote this list a long time ago and just found it. But it's still true. Ten Great Things About Blogging 1. explaining things to others makes them clearer to me, and questions from readers he

Well, that arts is Blanchard smart than a flexible constructivisms. Yikes, a woeful standaway editorially ran outside the passable trunk sales. Jeepers, some Cosmetic Dentist London is Nineveh grand

Student and I are going up again to review stalls, and she requests another try and ground reference maneuvers. We go over the PTS cheat sheet -- I say how I'll be marking down when she exceeds a tol

Tuesday morning, my instructor and I were supposed to finish up the complex portion of my commercial training in the Piper Arrow. However, one of the Arrows was down for 50 hour maintenance and it hap

Flight hours: 3.7
Study hours: 0
Aviation Reading:

This helicopter is a great machine and here's another company that swears by them.........

County waits on six fire chopper
Helicopters inte

It’s been crazy lately. Not much time to blog. You would have thought it would slow down after coming back from fire season during the summer. I’ve been busier now than ever before. Flew news

Tuesday morning, my instructor and I were supposed to finish up the complex portion of my commercial training in the Piper Arrow. However, one of the Arrows was down for 50 hour maintenance and it ha

No matter how often I do this, I look forward to night flying. Generally, the air is smoother, radio traffic less, and the colors at sunset just beyond description... fortunately I have a camera thou

Matt and I are back and

I love a shuttle launch.

15:14

U.S. pilots held in Rio de Janeiro allowed to go home...

 » ‎ Escaping the Patch

Lots of flying coming right up, so I'm gonna call it an early night. I'm flying all next week too, so that's kind of exciting. We are headed all over the continent, including a couple of new destina

One of the downsides to instructing is that although I spend a lot of time in airplanes as PIC it's rare that I actually get to fly one. It's been over a month since I logged a landing, for example,

This is a shot of

No matter how often I do this, I look forward to night flying. Generally, the air is smoother, radio traffic less, and the colors at sunset just beyond description... fortunately I have a camera thou

Matt and I are back and

One of the neat things about flying at Gateway is the variety of aircraft flying in and out. At any given time in the pattern you'll find: C-17's delivering Israeli Longbows to Boeing for refurbishm

This helicopter is a great machine and here's another company that swears by them.........

County waits on six fire chopper
Helicopters inte

It’s been crazy lately. Not much time to blog. You would have thought it would slow down after coming back from fire season during the summer. I’ve been busier now than ever before. Flew news

By this time tomorrow, MS and the IFR Pilot should be safely in the French Quarter, sipping a hurricane from Pat O'Brien's and contemplating whether we should

I love a shuttle launch.

STS-116 is scheduled to launch tomorro

Good to hear.

Since I posted about this situation before, I though it proper to post now that they have been allowed

Position: 40 miles south of Chicago
Altitude: 39,000 feet
Groundspeed: 610 m.p.h.<

This is a shot of JFK, looking north. You can see the skyline of Manhattan in the background.

History.
I nag a lot about history and how we sometimes seem to have learned nothing from it, therefore having to relearn painful lessons.

If I had a time machine, I'd like to go back

I was asked to provide a "sales brochure"-style description of a product I'd worked on in my pre-contractor career. The company wanted to sell this thing to customers, and so I was asked to write

Spent some time listening to the radio in the car park at Montgomery Field this evening. A plane was coming in from the west and was given a clearance