Just a quick flight up to Lindsay to get some fuel, and the first time using my new electric towbar – the Redline Sidewinder. Check out the short video here on YouTube.
One of the first real flights after getting the plane back in the air with the headers fixed, was to fly down and do a tour of Niagara Falls. It turns out it’s not quite as straightforward as the flights I’d done
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After getting the exhaust headers repaired, I took the plane up for a quick test flight. It was the first time I’d taken a plane up after such a major service, and I must admit I was a bit nervous. But everything
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Barely a month after I got my license, and when I’d only flown my plane a few times, Mona and I started noticing a smell of gasoline exhaust fumes in the cabin. At first we tried to ignore it, but it got
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Welcome to my first flying video! I’m a newly-minted private pilot, and also a new owner of a 1977 Beechcraft Sierra C24R. I started flight lessons way back in 1999, when I was living in Boston. It had always been an interest,
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Mona is absolutely obsessed with turtles. Whenever we’re snorkeling or diving, if she sees one anywhere, she will disappear at top speed and happily spend half an hour or longer just following it around. Across numerous trips – Grand Cayman, Curacao, Belize,
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In 2013, we were planning to go to Malaysia for a trip, and we discovered that the eastern cost of Borneo has some of the best diving in the world. That was enough to convince us to go get certified, so we’d
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While snorkeling at Spotts Beach, on the south coast of Grand Cayman island, we came across a green turtle in the shallows. This was our first real turtle sighting, and we were obsessed. We followed that thing around for close to 20
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Back in 2015 we did a trip to Kauai, and took a small boat tour up the west coast to see the Napali Coast. Along the way, we came across a pod of bottle-nosed dolphins, who decided to swim along with us
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