Winging It

Sporty’s “Flying With the iPad, iPhone and Android”

June 22, 2011
/ flying
/ By tom

Sporty’s Pilot Shop has introduced a newsletter for pilots flying with iPhone, iPad or Android devices. The first issue of “Flying With the iPad, iPhone and Android” is out now and, while heavy on Sporty’s ads, it does contain helpful hints, tips and news about non-Sporty’s apps too. Since the newsletter is free, it is […]

A Day for the Birds

June 20, 2011
/ travel
/ By tom

International Crane Foundation We get up to the Wisconsin Dells area often and we always see the signs for the International Crane Foundation. We had talked about stopping before but we just never got around to it. Saturday we finally made that long delayed visit. The ICF was founded in 1973 with the purpose of […]

A Day at the Races

June 14, 2011
/ By tom
/ 2 COMMENTS

Sunday was a beautiful late spring day with temperatures in the low 70s and bright sunshine. Too nice to be inside! Georgia and I enjoy horse racing but we hadn’t been to the track for a long time. Sunday looked like it would be the perfect day for it. The first race at Arlington Park […]

Door County Weekend – Part 3

June 3, 2011
/ travel
/ By tom

Sunday was forecast to be a rainy day so we took our time getting going in the morning. As it turned out, the rain and storms that hit so much of Wisconsin and Illinois that day missed us completely and is was another beautiful, mostly sunny day with temperatures in the seventies. We couldn’t have […]

Door County Weekend – Part 2

June 3, 2011
/ travel
/ By tom

Saturday morning we had breakfast at the hotel then got back in the car for more driving. The plan was to drive up the eastern (Lake Michigan) side of the peninsula all the way to the tip then come back down the Green Bay side arriving in Fish Creek about 5 PM. We had reservations […]

Door County Weekend – Part 1

June 2, 2011
/ travel
/ By tom
/ 3 COMMENTS

Georgia’s constant battles with health issues have kept us close to home lately. The Reglan that caused her Parkinsonism last year was effective at controlling her gastroparesis and, now that she can no longer take it, that condition is back. She was hospitalized in late March and again in April. With no other drugs available […]

ForeFlight Updated

February 22, 2011
/ flying
/ By tom
/ 2 COMMENTS

ForeFlight has released a new version of the ForeFlight Mobile HD iPad app. Now, for the first time, geo-referenced approach plates and taxi diagrams are supported. The new charts are ForeFlight’s licensed version of ChartData from Seattle Avionics. The catch? To use the geo-referenced charts you will have to pay twice as much for a […]

AviaFilms

February 8, 2011
/ flying
/ By tom
/ 3 COMMENTS

I am always on the lookout for good aviation web sites and I just turned up an outstanding one.AviaFilms Production is an aviation cockpit video making company that goes beyond the standard cockpit video. Would you like to see what a 737 captain sees during takeoff or get the view from an L-39 Albatross flying […]

The Blizzard

February 3, 2011
/ By tom

Northern Illinois, like so much of the country, was hammered by the blizzard of 2011. My workplace was closed on Wednesday but I ended up spending almost four hours of my “day off” clearing my driveway. Normally, that takes less than half an hour. The drifts were to high for the snow blower to handle […]

Las Vegas – Part 2

January 31, 2011
/ travel
/ By tom

With the wedding over, we now got into vacation mode. Sunday we slept late then had lunch at Red, White and Blue. Later we shared a cab with Steve and Bonnie and went to Bellaggio. After looking around that hotel and playing a few slot machines, we split up again. Steve and Bonnie went back […]

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