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A flight to the San Juan Islands for a cuppa Joe on a lazy summer morning.

what agency? FAA? ;)' No, Department of Energy, just next door to the FAA.

You could fly into Manassas (KHEF). It's inside the SFRA, but outside the FRZ. The Virginia Railway express has a stop just outside the perimeter fence. The VRE stops at L'Enfant Plaza and Union Station. VRE doesn't run as often as the Metro, so you'd have to coordinate arrival times better. I...

My electronic logbook is just an Excel spreadsheet I created. I can add of delete features as I see fit. It only took 10 minutes to create the original outline. I've changed it s couple of times since then to add features I was interested in. I will keep a paper logbook and scan the pages from...

Washington State DOT operates a number of grass strips up in the Cascade Mountains. These runways are typically closed by NOTAM from October 1st until June 1st. This year, spring was dryer and warmer than usual, so many of these airports were opened early. Skykomish State was one of the lucky...

I think pacificnorthwestflying.com died (in part) because of the heavily marketed Facebook group called Flights above the Pacific Northwest. It is soooooo much easier for the forum administrator/manager to maintain a Facebook group than it is to keep up with the site management for a purely HTML...

I've seen and have participated (unsuccessfully) in a number of STOL (Short TakeOff & Landing) contests. STOL events typically take place on a longer runway with the vast majority of the pavement (or grass) unused. This STOL stunt had a wildly limited space to try and land on. The discussion of...

This is one of the reasons I have given up on keeping IFR current. I have the rating, but I've chosen to stop using the privileges it offers. I found flying solid IFR to be a lot of work, partially because I don't have an autopilot. Even with an autopilot, flying single engine IFR over the...

The last time I flew to Sun-N-Fun and camped, no outside cars were allowed access to the airplane camping area. Some folks pulled cars up to the fence on the SW Side of runway 10 (Kelvin Howard Rd) and threw gear over the fence to pilots on the other side. That only works if you are camped in...

I try to delete as much boring filler as possible without killing whatever story I'm trying to share. Flying, and videos about flying should be amazing, not boring!

Here's another coffee stop - I flew to Olga Rising coffee shop on Orcas Island in the San Juans

50 knot winds out of the south created some spectacular lenticular clouds over the northern edge of the Olympic Mountains in Washington State. This stack was close to Jefferson County Internaitonal Airport and it was "sporty" up there!

They also have a fuel management system that is more complex than most singles. A lot of the accidents in SVs were from mis-managing the fuel system and running a tank dry. Early versions had as many as 5 fuel tanks and two fuel selectors.

OK, Jerry Seinfeld has his YouTube Channel called Comedians in Cars getting coffee, and it can be funny. The cars they drive can also be interesting. Still, its just about 2 people driving to a local coffee shop and swapping stories along the way. Nothing out of the ordinary in any of that. Now...

Mount Baker over Padilla Bay in Washington State, just 6 minutes from my home 'drome. When it's nice here, it's VERY nice!

I've lost significant (to me) amounts of money in regular markets, so I stopped investing in anything to make money. I started investing in toys I actually play with. I don't lose much most of the time and I actually have fun while playing. Surprisingly, the airplanes I bought as toys have made...

After 30+ years, I finally flew my own plane into a backcountry airport I discovered on a motorcycle trip in 1989.

New Year's over the Salish Sea (between Washington State and Canada) and my tach showing I just crossed the 2,000.0 hour mark in my Maule

Back in 2019, there was a lot of buzz around the new Horten HX-2 flying wing LSA. The buzz continued into early 2020, then everything went silent. What happened? It's a cool looking design. Did the European authorities ever certify the design? Did the company fail because of bad timing around...

November in the Seattle area is typically gloomy and wet, but this November has had an unusual number of very clear, very dry days that have been perfect for flying!