Monthly Archives: January 2007



The Secret Blog Reader

I get flattered pretty easily. If anyone notices anything I do, I am impressed. Perhaps that is because I bring stuff up so often, I get a lot of eye rolls, but when someone else brings up something I do, … Continue reading

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One Cold Flight Lesson

I really wasn’t looking forward to this morning’s flight lesson. It was about 7 degrees outside…the coldest day of the year so far. As I lay there in my warm bed, I could only imagine what my 15 minute pre-flight … Continue reading

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Digging Out the Basement – Done

Well, I finally finished digging out the basement. I found some time under a rock on Saturday and went down to the pit with my shovel and rototiller. This was the last section of dirt…and boy was this tough stuff. … Continue reading

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Long Tri-Fold Kneeboard

In my previous post, I mentioned that I made a cross country flight. Well, one of the things that I learned on that trip was that organization is extremely important. I needed my sectional chart, a sharp pencil, a backup … Continue reading

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Flight School – Lesson #18 – 10:00AM-12:00PM – Cross Country

Hours – 22 This Sunday, I decided that it would be nice to take a cruise to Waterbury/Oxford Airport (OXC) in Connecticut. We would depart from MGJ, fly to the Kingston VOR station in Poughkeepsie and from there, head straight … Continue reading

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Our Listings on Oodle

This is pretty cool. If you remember a while back, I mentioned that we have several data feeds that a variety of websites draw from…mostly the new “Classified Search Engines” like Oodle and Vast. Both of these websites give us … Continue reading

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How To Read an Aviation Sectional Map – Airport Information

My father finally received his Christmas gift yesterday. I got him a Charlotte sectional map, which includes his area of Wilmington, NC. The reason I got him the sectional map is because I needed him to look around for frequencies … Continue reading

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Creating a Flight Plan Using the Jeppesen Navigation Log

Do you want to know what someone said to me about my previous post about VOR navigation? They said it was boring. I didn’t think it was boring when I was writing about the fascinating topic of airplane navigation. I … Continue reading

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Flight School – Lesson #17 – 10:00AM-12:00PM – VOR Navigation

Hours – 20.4 This was a fairly challenging but rewarding lesson. That seems to be the default description of flight school…challenging but rewarding. I remember the first time I did VOR navigation with Yigal. It made so much sense on … Continue reading

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Peter Kagan and the Wind

A while back, Laura and I were driving home from Lowes in Middletown, NY. I have a bad habit of turning the radio dial to NPR with other people in the car. I don’t think a lot of people appreciate … Continue reading

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