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Monday, August 17, 2009
Big Sky Airport
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Update!






Thursday, April 9, 2009
SFO Landing
I never get tired of flying into large airports such as San Francisco.
We have the best seat in the house for watching the heavy iron land
and takeoff. I took this yesterday while we were holding short of
runway 28R in SFO waiting for departure.
We have the best seat in the house for watching the heavy iron land
and takeoff. I took this yesterday while we were holding short of
runway 28R in SFO waiting for departure.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Laguna Seca
View of Laguna Seca Raceway from the Piaggio. This was taken on final to Runway 28L in Monterey, CA.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Porsche Crew Car
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Redmond to Rockford

At 1398 nautical miles, this was the longest distance I have flow in the Piaggio. Luckily, we had an average of 60kts of tailwind to help us get to Rockford non-stop. We ended burning 314 gallons of fuel flying at 39,000 ft and the time enroute was it in 3 hours 48 minutes takeoff to landing, which is an average speed of 368 kts (416mph).
We could have gone much faster if we flew a bit lower and were not in gas saving mode, however this is still very impressive for a little turboprop.
Click on the picture for a larger view of the route.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Stratosphere Tower
I was bored on an overnight the other day in Vegas, so I grabbed my camera and took this long exposure picture of the Stratosphere Tower at night. The tower is over five and a half miles away and the light streaks you see is from an airplane landing from right to left.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Bald Mountain
Bald Mountain ski resort in Ketchum, ID.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Flickr Blog Feature
I just found out that I can post pictures to this blog straight from my Flickr account!
Here is a view of downtown San Diego from the Landmark ramp at the airport. The view is awesome at night as you can see.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
East to West Coast



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The company needed a Piaggio II qualified captain in Palm Springs, so tomorrow I am catching a ride in the back of Piaggio N137SL from Camarillo to Burbank, where I will rent a car and drive to Palm Springs to take over N172SL and fly it to Aurora, OR with five passengers.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Six check complete




I also got the chance to test out our new touch screen EFB's (Electronic Flight Bag) which are really cool. In the past we used tablet PC's with a stylus, but these are much smaller and have a touchscreen to access important information easier.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009



The checkride is basically the equivalent of taking your drivers license test every six months (but more difficult obviously) and if you fail, you will be required to do more training. If you fail again, then you may lose your job, so failing is no good.
The first pic is of my luggage under some interesting hotel room lighting, the second picture is from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and the third is from Kalispell, MT.
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