Even though my Condition Inspection doesn't expire until the end of May, I am starting on it early. I got lucky last year and I didn't...

Saturday 1/28/23 was a transition day, weather wise. It had been cloudy and rainy all week, how unusual, but was going to clear up for...

Friday 1/20/23 was too nice a day to spend at work. Particularly since there was yet another storm system coming in for the weekend it...

Saturday 8/6/22 was another toasty day in the Northwest, but not nearly as bad as last weekend. It is still hotter than I care for, but...

Sucia Island Friday 7/22/22 was a cloudy day, at least to start with. It was part of the normal pattern of morning clouds and afternoon...

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....