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Dear Hotel Room Neighbor, I’m writing to say “Thank you!” for your continued help. Without unfailing effort on your part, I would actually have gotten a normal amount of sleep during my

I worked my ass off today trying to get these two bugs fixed before I left. I ended up coming out 12 hours after I got to work. I tried to put my key in the lock, and somebody had punched it out. A

It's not often that I'm dumbstruck. I can think of only two or three occasions in my life that I've been rendered speechless.

Back in the days I was flying an

I found a guy who wants a ride from Muskegon to Oshkosh, so at least I’m going to have somebody to help me with the Fisk approach.

Wednesday was the last night of woodworking class. I had to spend some time patching another knothole, so was behind everyone else for the rest of the evening. The main goals for the evening were to

Yesterday I decided that my poor plane needed to fly, or it was going to rust, so I took one of my students who had never been in a high performance airplane up to Boonville for lunch. Or at l

Well hello to the net,

It's been a busier week than normal. I actually got to do a little powerline patrol work on Monday. There was a big storm that came through and I guess some lines tri

Now is not the time to be thinking about going to the airlines as they are furloughing pilots and cutting their fleets and routes. It is also probably not the best time to go into Flight Instruction

Wow, I'm going to Oshkosh! It's very last minute, and I'm only going to be there for three days, but I will be at the EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh this

A Qantas Boeing 747 flying the London - Hong-Kong - Melbourne route had to make an emergency landing in Manilla. The NTSB initial press release mentions: “The airplane, Qantas flight 30, a B747-

Five Airports One Flight For those of us dreaming of flying the London Airports, this video of Five Airports One Flight is astounding to watch.

I waited too long to request an IFR reservation for Sunday for Oshkosh (I should have been on the STMP site yesterday afternoon) and now there aren’t any arrival slots in any timeframe I could r

In addition to the NOTAM, here are two articles by Rick Durden that should be required reading for anyone flying into Oshkosh. Rick

Listening to - Tempo I (subito) - Mahler's Symphony No.5

In my last post I mentioned some stuff going on that I was unable to reveal full details on. I can now safely expand on what was goi