Tips from CSIP's: Staying Proficient
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We have some fairly nasty weather blowing in to the Pacific Northwest tonight and tomorrow. It looks like a big jumbled mess of fronts, one after the other, hitting us with rain, wind, and snow. One of the things that caught my attention was this line...
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I spent most of the morning sorting through all our Jepp charts and putting them into order again. All our ferry flying has made a bit of a mess, so I'm organizing things. As I was flipping through, I saw an instrument approach chart that actually...
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Welcome back to the crew that joined us for the second 2011 Alaska Adventure. We're still compiling all the pictures but I thought I would share a few: It's always a party on these trips....
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We Love Our Gadgets Automation is awesome. It's the reason many of us fly a Cirrus specifically - the situation awareness brought by our moving maps, the auto-load features of the GPS systems, traffic detectors that are great assists to the eyes,...
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Sorry for the delays, they don't have internet access up north like they do down here in the lower 48. Videos like the one I just uploaded in minutes here take hours up there so I had to hold off until we got back. After we caught our boat's limit...
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Wow! We had some of the best flying weather yesterday... and used it to go up to 8,000 feet and fly around a few of the glaciers here in S.E. Alaska. The following video just catches a small glimpse of the true splendor of the place. You may want to go...
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We're busily getting ourselves ready for the 7th annual Alaska Adventure here at The Flight Academy. We're excited to have Cirrus pilots with us from all over the world: 6 aircraft in all. I'll be posting some pictures and hopefully a few...
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Having posted last about a fairly lush and forested place to visit, we'll now look to the south towards the desert of Arizona. Name and type of Destination : Sedona, AZ One of the more scenic places to fly into in the Southwest, Sedona offers a number...
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I thought I'd kick off our new Destinations series with a place that's close to home for me. The San Juan Islands! Located in the Strait of Juan de Fuca where the Pacific Ocean starts to make its way down to Seattle, the San Juans are filled with...
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I had an interesting 10 days recently. I crossed 3 different parts of the US border to 3 different countries (and back from those counties) in 3 different Cirri with 3 different groups of people. In doing this I got to work with the EAPIS system a lot...
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This last Sunday I spent a little time remembering where I was and what I was doing on previous Easter Sundays. I take a lot of photos when I fly and thanks to the digital age I don't have to get rid of any of them. Here's the story of delivering...
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Do you wish you were a little sharper on instrument flying? Would you like to know a few more Garmin tricks to make your life simpler? Want to see if you'd pull the CAPS handle when it really matters? You can do all this, as much as you'd like...
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One of the fun things about flying all over the world to teach in Cirrus aircraft has been that we get to see all kinds of cool places to go. Sometimes it's a neat restaurant, sometimes it's a cool stopover, sometimes it's just the view.....
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Wow! Interest in our Alaska trip has been going up steadily but we saw a serious jump this year. Our June trip is now completely booked! Since we were still getting phone calls about it, we've worked with the lodge to open a second trip in August...
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Last week I blogged about the latest update to the Perspective software and all the new features included. I also mentioned that I had found out a certain feature doesn't necessarily come turned on and that the pilot has to do it. This isn't too...