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...

Saturday 7/29/23 was a nice day all around. Not too hot, not too windy, but there was a rather persistent marine layer. Since I was on...

Friday 7/21/23 was a very busy day, both for me and for others. Surprisingly though, Saturday 7/22/23 was considerably less so. At...

The weekend of 7/14/23 and 7/15/23 was a warm one. Not record setting warm by any stretch of the imagination, but warmer than I care for....

Sitting on the ramp at Forks with the Forks Timber Museum in the background. After the mini-heat wave we had over the Fourth of July...

Saturday 7/1/23 was forecast to be, and ended up being, a rather nice day. The sky was clear, though it was a bit windy, but not...

Saturday 6/24/23 was a rather typical early summer day in the Northwest. That means, clouds in the morning and sun in the afternoon. ...

Friday 6/16/23 was supposed to be a cloudy / rainy day. I wanted to take the day off, even though I didn't think I would be able to fly,...