Winging It

Back in the Air Soon – I Hope

November 23, 2008
/ flying
/ By tom
/ 2 COMMENTS

I haven’t been doing any flying for several months now. But, that should be changing soon. I submitted my membership application to The Stick & Rudder Flying Club yesterday. Once approved, I plan to start working on my instrument rating. Thank you to the readers who have stuck with me during this lull. I should […]

New Wish List Item

October 30, 2008
/ flying
/ By tom
/ 4 COMMENTS

Garmin has just announced two new portable aviation GPS units. They are the GPSMAP 695 and 696. The Garmin press release can be read athttp://garmin.blogs.com/pr/2008/10/garmin-gpsmap-6.html?activeBranchId=newsroom. These new units are significantly different from previous Garmin portables. These are tablet computer style devices with a 7″ screen. The two units are essentially the same except that the […]

O’Hare Flooding Videos

October 1, 2008
/ By tom
/ 2 COMMENTS

For those of you who are not in the Chicago area, we had some major flooding here in mid September. The videos below show the ramps at O’Hare airport on September 13th. The airport ended up being closed for much of that day.

Baltic Cruise Part 4 – Sea Days, Amsterdam, Back Home

September 6, 2008
/ travel
/ By tom

August 27-28 – Sea Days Two sea days in a row to relax and just enjoy cruising! The seas were the roughest of the trip but not so bad as to be really uncomfortable. We slept in both mornings, spend time on the balcony, did some duty free shopping in the onboard shops,lost a little […]

Baltic Cruise Part 3 – Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Tallin

September 5, 2008
/ travel
/ By tom

August 23 – Helsinki I was on our balcony as the Splendor sailed into the port of Helsinki. My first impression, as we passed pine and fir covered islands, was that it looked a lot like the south coast of Alaska. Indeed, Helsinki is a little further north than Juneau and the climate is similar. […]

Baltic Cruise Part 2 – Sea days, Copenhagen, Warnemunde

September 4, 2008
/ travel
/ By tom

August 19 – Sea Day Our first full day on board the Splendor was a sea day. We used the morning to explore the ship and attended cruise director John Heald’s first port talk covering Copenhagen, Warnemünde and Helsinki. Lunch on the Lido deck was followed by more explorations and some quiet time on our […]

Baltic Cruise Part 1 – London and Dover

September 2, 2008
/ travel
/ By tom
/ 1 COMMENT

August 13 – 14 – Chicago to London I worked a half day then got home in time for Georgia and I to take our prearranged cab to O’Hare. We were there the required two hours before our flight, cleared the security checkpoint relatively quickly, sat in the gate area for an hour and boarded […]

Back Home From Europe

September 1, 2008
/ Other
/ By tom

We are back home after our Baltic cruise. It was a trip to remember. Especially interesting was visiting countries that were, not so long ago, part of the Soviet Union. I will write about the trip in more detail over the next few days. Right now, we are just spending the day unpacking and re-adjusting […]

Social Networking for Pilots

August 12, 2008
/ flying
/ By tom
/ 2 COMMENTS

If you have been listening to just about any of the GA podcasts, you have probably heard about myTransponder.com. If you haven’t already been to the web site, you should take a look. The idea is much the same as other social networking sites like MySpace and FaceBook except that this one is for pilots […]

More AirVenture 2008 Photos

August 9, 2008
/ airshows flying travel
/ By tom

Click the picture to the left or go to http://picasaweb.google.com/tclough1/Airventure2008 to view an online album with a few more AirVenture 2008 pictures. I also added a link to a Harrier video to the opening day post and a JetPack video link to the JetPack post. Look for the links within the posts or click the […]