The first flight of JD was in February of 2001, making it almost 24 years old. For most of that time it has had harnesses made by...

Saturday 12/7/24 was yet another wet and rainy day up here in the upper left hand quadrant of the country. While that is always...

The fall of 2024 has been very cloudy and wet in the Pacific Northwet (not a typo). As a result, I only got to fly twice in October and...

Saturday 6/29/24 was a nice, but somewhat cloudy day here. There was a system moving through Saturday night and into Sunday so the...

Part 1, 5/25/24. As I get older, I find that some things are not as easy as they used to be (I know, just me right?), particularly things...

Friday 4/19/24 I finally had all of my yearly maintenance completed and was looking forward to getting out and flying. The weather was...

C'est Finis. Thursday 4/18/24 and I am finally able to wrap up the 2024 CI. It was, in all actuality, a pretty straight forward...

Progress is being made. Saturday 4/13/24 was a much clearer day than expected. It was tempting to try to throw the airplane back...

After finishing the firewall forward part in Part 5, I took a break last weekend to fly (video here). That is one reason why I do this...

With the messiest part out of the way, it was time to finish up the firewall forward portion of the inspection. Fortunately, Saturday...

With the brakes finished, it was time to start on the next worst part, firewall forward. On the one hand, I like having the opportunity...

In this case anyway, the third time was the charm. Thursday 3/14/24 worked out better than the last couple of tries did. I got all of...

Sometimes it feels like things are just stacked against me. I made a soft start to my condition inspection last week and encountered a...

The weekend of 3/2 and 3/3 2024 was supposed to be the kickoff of my 2024 Condition Inspection. I do a progressive condition inspection...

Friday 2/23/24 was an even nicer day than it was forecasted to be. Saturday was supposed to be, and in fact was, a day of mostly clouds,...

Saturday 2/3/24 was a nicer day than expected. Most of the week called for either rain or cloudy all day Saturday. The Model Output...

The last weekend in October 2023 was a very nice one. We had just finished almost a week of rain and were headed for another week of...

Friday 8/18/23 was a day that was supposed to be much cooler than the past week, and it was. Carl had just got his airplane back from...

Saturday 8/12/23 was the beginning of a warming trend, but was still bringing acceptable temperatures. Gone was the the thick smoke from...

Saturday 8/5/23 marked a somewhat odd change in our weather pattern. All week we have had some to a few clouds in the morning with...