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Snow!
We haven’t had much of a winter but now we are getting smacked with the heaviest snow of the year. The season isn’t over just yet!
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Sporty’s Webinar Series
Thanks to Sporty’s Pilot Shop for presenting a very good aviation webinar series. I have only seen the first two webinars as of the date of this post but, they have both been excellent. They are: Video Cameras in the Cockpit: How To and How Much? and Flying with the iPad: Apps & Accessories It […]
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Flying with ForeFlight and iOS 5
Foreflight has issued some cautions (http://blog.foreflight.com/2011/10/14/flying-with-foreflight-and-ios-5/) about using the new IOS5 on your iPad or iPhone. It seems the new version can remove app data from your device if disk space gets low. You have no control over what gets removed so there is the potential to lose charts or flight plan data. The best […]
Continue readingiPad Proficiency
iPad Proficiency for Pilots from ForeFlight on Vimeo. Thanks to Gary for calling this to my attention.
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Georgia was hospitalized four time in August and September for gastric pain. It appears the gastric bypass hasn’t fully solved her problem. Right now she has a tube in the bypassed portion of her stomach that comes out through her abdomen. It is there so a gastroenterologist can do an ERCP and look for possible […]
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Pilot Kevin Mossey of Marion, Iowa has made it easy for us to express our opposition to the proposed $100 per flight user fee (payable to the FAA) for flight in controlled airspace. Mr. Mossey has created a petition opposed to the fees on the White House web site We The People. Read more about […]
Continue readingThe Flightline
If you can get The Flightline TV show in your area, I highly recommend watching it. Hosts Mark DeJoy and Paul Jackson do a great job of presenting a wide variety of aviation stories. The show is based in Minnesota and has a heavy midwest emphasis but will still appeal to aviation enthusiasts everywhere.
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