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Just a quickie blog post to make my New Year's resolutions. In the year 2007 I will: Avoid needing the services of any hospital emergency room (or morgue). Qualify for FAA ground instructor privil

2006 was a blur. It started out with a huge family cruise vacation to the Caribbean, a change of schools for my two oldest children and then

We've had a long stretch of bad weather around here, so it's been nothing but ground school. It's also been warm, but anytime I've had free time to go fly IFR Warrior, the weather has been too low.

Among my favorite Christmas presents this year was a framed certificate commemorating my first solo. It was dug up out of my parents' basement and long forgotten by yours truly. Because my original l

This great video from

New Year's Day, 2007

The first day of the year....
We've watched retrospectives of 2006 on different networks-
One I enjoy is on TCM, the "Turner Classic Movies" old movie networ

My ten possible options for celebrating the New Year shrunk to two.... and they are not very exciting until later tonight, so once again I'm bored. Now I'm listening to back episodes of

I've always been afraid of handguns, and of the people who own them. A handgun provides its owner the power to kill another person instantly with the press of a button. As with presidential candida

During the Christmas break, I have managed to do a lot of flying and completed a few significant milestones in my flying hobby. Here are the numbers:

Total hours: 101.5 (I passed the magic

Ok, its 2007, time for this year’s new year’s flying resolutions, presented roughly in order of likely completion: Stay PIC, night and instrument current all the time (night can lapse for

Momma Nature did not cooperate and allow the IFR Pilot to complete the night solo requirement for his commercial license. Fog, haze, and mist all blew into Northeast Ohio last night and caused the fli

The week between Christmas and New Year's Eve was set to be a slow one. The week started out with poor weather and the few instructional flights I had scheduled on Tuesday were cancelled. Wednesday, t

I love Day by Day!

A fellow Milblogger, SPC JR Salzman of Lumberjack in a Desert, was injured by an IED and had to have an arm amputated. He seems to be doing pretty well

Hey, I'm on holidays.

I'll start posting daily again as of tomorrow, starting with a story that has remained burned into my consciousness since it happened.

Having seen mention of a few folk's 2006 flying stats, I thought I'd drag out the logbook and take a peek to see what I'd find.

Totals for 2006:
124.1 hrs total, all of it PIC in the A

During the Christmas break, I have managed to do a lot of flying and completed a few significant milestones in my flying hobby. Here are the numbers:

Total hours: 101.5 (I passed the magic

You knew this couldn't last, didn't you? I wrote my Signing Off entry because I thought I couldn't post the next entry (

Single engine plane (Cessna Caravan 7 seats) coming from St. Barthelemy SBH. It went down on approach approx. 5 miles from the field in the ocean. Only the pilot on board and he has been rescued!