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Many Buffalo

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Colin Summers

But not enough of them seen. Here are Rudy and Helen out on Catalina, just before we started the usual 2.2 mile Airport Loop hike around the airport. It feels like we haven’t spotted the buffalo in a while. This … Continue reading →

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Seven Years Back

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Colin Summers

I used to have half a dozen photographs of this crash. The fellow who sold me our plane sent them to me. He knows I am always thinking about walking away from a forced landing. This one was just so … Continue reading →

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Never Bent

Posted on March 15, 2015 by Colin Summers

I’m pretty sure when I mention to people that I fly a small plane the first thing they think of is a small plane crashing. That’s when the little planes make the news, so that’s probably what is in their … Continue reading →

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Staying Out of the Way

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Colin Summers

I have flown in and out of San Diego’s Lindbergh Field dozens of times now. I first landed there for Rudy’s first visit to ComicCon and since then we have discovered The Old Globe Theater and seen a bunch of Shakespeare and … Continue reading →

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Paper or Plastic

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Colin Summers

On of my favorite aviation bloggers, Aviatrix over at Cockpit Conversation, had a bunch of questions about changing over to an Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) and how the iPad might compare to paper maps. As I was reading her entry … Continue reading →

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Catch-22

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Colin Summers

It’s amazing how happy this little piece of metal makes me. A lot of small airplanes have these little windows. They leet you put your fingers into the wind stream without filling the cabin with noise. They let you call … Continue reading →

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A Better Approach

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Colin Summers

I’ve flown sixteen hundred hours in the airplane and I’m still learning.  On Tuesday, July 1,  Nell spoke at the Great Books Summer Program up on the Stanford campus. It’s the perfect trip in the plane, two hours twenty minutes up … Continue reading →

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Up the Coast and Back

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Colin Summers

It seems unlikely that we will make our usual jaunt from coast-to-coast this summer. Rudy starts college on August 20th, Dexter is booked solid for the entire summer up until a Shakespeare performance on August 9th, and we are here … Continue reading →

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Where the Buffalo Roam

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Colin Summers

The great thing about flying little planes is that you never know which flight is going to be an adventure. It could just be a milk run, or it could turn into the time you saw the most gorgeous sunset … Continue reading →

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Why Engines Fail

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Colin Summers

As mentioned in many other posts, I fly along waiting for my engine to fail. That was an integral part of my training: always have an emergency landing location picked out. The whole way from airport to airport. (And, subsequently, … Continue reading →

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