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Calgary City Center


1413 Local
105 NM Northwest of Edmonton

Only two more days before the surgery (well, 1.5). I've been lucky to have a few beautiful California days to go flying this past week, since it will be a while before I can fly again. I'm now the p

Once again Michigan's weather is at it's finest. In my previous post I mentioned traveling all over the northern portion of Michigan and even part of the Upper Peninsula while searching for snow. Ever

Howdy. I’m sure everyone is as relieved as I am that January 3, 2007 came and went without a terrorist event in Alaska. I’m sure the seemingly neurotic fellow in my previous post was instrumenta

The pictures are

I keep intending to write technical posts, knowing that I've been too heavy on the travelogue and personal soap opera of late, but things keep happening. You read yesterday's entry. Well more things h

Well I'm finally back to the grind.

Monday morning school got off to a start leaving me wishing I could still be lounging around at home with nothing better to do. The morning began at abou

An article at AVweb says it all. The

Calgary City Center


1413 Local
105 NM Northwest of Edmonton

Will someone please tell me why the FAA Commercial Pilot Knowledge Test includes 14 questions relative to ADF, but NONE about GPS?

Mind you, those 14 questions include a serie

Aviation legend Bill Kershner, renown throughout the GA community as an instructor and author, has died. Dog-eared copies of Kershner’s

Update: According to the COPA non-members page anyone can fill out the survey, there is a link from COPA to the survey so no need to wai

Flew with my instrument student the other night. We hadnt flown in a couple weeks so we figured an easy IFR trip somewhere would be in order, with approaches at both ends. We departed Leesburg at ni

Forgive me for a short post. The x-c went very well, I got in 3.0 hours and 2 landings at controlled airports, so I've now satisfied all of my solo requirements.

Husband's grandfather pass

Warning: May be Habbit Forming.

If you work in an open source software shop, have people who carry Blackberries activated on your company Blackberry Enterprise Server you want to push data

Lisa sent me a few pics of our Christmas cheer from a couple of weeks ago. These were taken at her parents house in Goderich, Ontario. There is still no snow there, which is getting really freaky.