It had been almost a month since I had last been to our hangar to check on things. I’ve been flying too much at work lately and the short periods I have been at home have been taken up by time zone recovery. When I drove onto the airport I noticed that the local fire-fighting [...]

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Let’s see, you’ve just completed a 7 1/2 hour, all night flight from Tokyo to San Francisco.  How are you going to spend your time off before the next departure? Why, go flying of course… Before we left Japan I had been corresponding with @Captain_Ron on Twitter and had asked him if he was going [...]

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There have been several thunderstorms in the area the past few days dropping huge amounts of water and spitting out lightning bolts. The lightning has started a few fires in fairly inaccessible areas and has put our local fire fighters to work. There were two fire-fighting operations  on the east side of the Sierras last [...]

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Last week the Reno Air Racing Association (RARA) conducted it’s 2009 Pylon Racing School (PRS) at Reno-Stead Airport, Reno, NV.  There are three situations that require a pilot a pilot to attend PRS. First, if a pilot has never raced in the National Championship Air Races he or she would have to receive their race [...]

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