Zenflyer's comment on mandated placards in view of the passenger reminds me that the official warning on Lite Flyer's dashboard is missing an R.
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An ultralight airplane is an airplane. Like any airplane, it has capabilities and limitations
and, like any airplane, it must be maintained and flown properly. Unlike a certified airplane it
may b
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The province of Nova Scotia is a gigantic hammerhead-shaped peninsula that attaches to New Brunswick at Moncton, northeast of Maine. A straight line from our present position to the aerodrome that wil
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The next phase of our journey is a little different. We're not meeting Lite Flyer's Fredericton family here. We're going to them. I have her mark the location on the chart, because it's not a register
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Next morning in Maine the weather is grand. The cold front that has been bearing down on us overnight has raced through while we slept, leaving nothing in its wake but a bit of scud cloud.
The coast
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Maine, it turns out, has mosquitoes. They're not the northern Canada swarms where naked skin
instantly has a density of at least one mosquito per square centimetre, and they're not very big,
but t
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For best results, read Clunk, Part I first.
There continue to be no control difficulties, engine changes, or ai
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Despite local doubt in our ability to progress, we taxi out at Oneonta. I get Lite Flyer to make the call, and she says something reasonably similar to "backtracking" before we enter the runway and ta
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The Maryland flight follower, Washington Center, I think it was, knew that we were just talking to him to stay away from anything related to the supersized restricted airspace. He released us to our o
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At the apron in Hagerstown we were greeted by an FBO employee who marshalls us into place and
lays out a red carpet. As we are a two door airplane he had to pick which side to place it, and it
was
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I bid farewell to the folks at W90 via Unicom, just in case they are monitoring it, and start
watching for some slightly higher terrain. I'm thinking we might have to go around some hills, and
thi
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Wednesday morning the hotel clerk does not have as dire a view of the town's one cab as the airport manager, so to avoid having to impose on airport staff to pick us up, Lite Flyer calls him. The cab
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The low cloud that dogged us on the Florida coast is gone, and we can get slightly better winds
at a higher altitude, but I have to sell the higher altitude to Lite Flyer. The demo flights she
too
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We continue north up the coast to Brunswick, then continue north while the coastline
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I don't sleep very well. I was blaming the hotel pillow, but I think there's only so much a
pillow can be expected to do to counteract stress. There's a lot more here than in my regular job. Here we
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I don't know if a picture is worth a thousand words, but posting one takes a lot less time
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We weigh and load our few belongings, verify the weather and take off with only a few wild
swerves on the runway. If anyone asks, I'll pretend Lite Flyer was at the controls. Once airborne
the air
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Lite Flyer is right where she said she'd be, at the baggage carousel. She rents a car and we step out into the familiar hot muggy August summer weather (why can't anyone ever fly me to Florida in Febr
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Lite Flyer and I are moving north (yes, this is live) but discovering that hurricane dodging and husbandry of the little bug are a full time job, not leaving much time for blogging. I'd rather give yo
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My next contract is a little different than what I've been doing lately. I'll be flying with a client, as usual, this time in the client's airplane. The biggest difference is not in who owns the airpl
