6/10/22 - A few months ago, when I was doing my Condition Inspection, I sent my AV-30E back to uAvionix to have the internal magnetometer...

3/12/22 and 3/13/22 - It is once again that time of year, time to take the airplane out of service and do the annual inspection. ...

11/25/21 - When I flew on Sunday I noticed that my right strobe was out. Since the airplane was built mostly in the last century, it has...

11/27/21 - The only delayed discrepancy I had from last year's condition inspection was some minor rust on the bottom aft ends of both...

Wednesday 11/24/21 was always a big question mark. It was the only day of the week that had any real chance to be flyable and give us...

Saturday 11/20/21 was the best day we have seen in a while. There were still a lot of clouds around, but it wasn't windy and it wasn't...

Sunday 11/21/21 was clearer than Saturday and the sky seemed to be putting on quite a light show, but as I soon found out, it was not...

Saturday August 28th 2021 was the first decent flying day I've had in 4 weeks. The last time I flew was July 31st. If it wasn't...

Thursday 6/17/21 was a nearly perfect day in the Northwest. Clear and a million, not too windy, not cold, not hot. It was one of those...

Saturday 6/12/21 turned out to be better than expected. I hadn't been planning on flying at all. All week the forecast had been calling...

Saturday 5/29/21 turned out to be almost exactly as forecast, except maybe a little better. How often does that happen? Thursday night...

Sunday - 5/23/21 - Yesterday was supposed to be a pretty nice day. The fog was supposed to burn off earlier than it had the past few...

5/1/21 and 5/2/21 - I was very happy to have my condition inspection done for another year. The one big thing that I still needed was a...

Age: 20 Years Time: 2,172.0 Hours 4/9/21-- 4/12/21 - I started this years condition inspection with a brief hop to warm up the oil. The...

3/27/21 I finally got around to installing the WigWag module from the Flyleds that I got with the lights I ordered earlier in the year....

Saturday 3/13/21 was a nice day at the end of a 5 day stretch of nice weather. It had been dry and mostly sunny all week. Of course,...

It has been a wet and depressing winter here in the Northwest. Between rain and snow (at least you don't have to shovel rain) there have...

2/13/21 - My 2001 RV-8 came with the standard Duckworks Landing/Taxi lights that were commonly available at that time. They are nothing...

Friday 1/22/21 was such a beautifully clear day, and what's even more unusual it was forecast to be so all week, that I felt compelled to...

After another long stretch of rain (except for a few weekdays which don't do me any good), we had a relatively clear, dry Saturday. ...