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In particular, this one from the Port of Anacortes (Washington State): https://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/auction/view?auc=3363348 Price is low, but looks like the winning bidder has to show up and truck the plane away. And it's a pig in a poke. Does this situation make any sense for anything...

Just finished up a tour of the Canadian Arctic: Baffin Island, Devon Island, Beechey Island. The original itinerary was a flight on a regional jet from Calgary, through Yellowknife, then on to Resolute. The tour company had to scramble as the Canadian fire situation deteriorated. We ended up...

CEN22FA331 has the story. Briefly, on a firefighting mission, one pilot dropped his iPad. It jammed a pedal, and they lost control. The NTSB reenacted the scenario, in great detail.

Recent post on Reddit r/flying "One year of a 5-person Plane Partnership" goes into detail, has the usual cautions and lessons learned. Summary: Five pilots formed a partnership to buy a used RV10. No deaths or serious injuries. But they all would have done better to just rent a nice Cirrus...

Reddit pointed it out; didn't see it mentioned anywhere else. Lewis Univ, LOT, has a control tower, and a new Class D ring--Foreflight shows a cutout for Clow. FYI

A couple of years ago, a relative bought a home in Delaware. Nice place, a few miles from some ocean resort towns. Last Friday, she gets a call on her cell phone: "I saw your ad on apartments.com, when can I come by to look at your place?" !!! Checking it out, the pictures are legit, copied...

Perusing mountainous area airports, looking for extreme values of Vertical Descent Angle, I ran across Salmon, Idaho, Lemhi County: SMN RNAV (GPS)-D. Charted VDA is 8.91 degrees. Using simple math (i.e. no correction for curvature of the earth), I get 8.86 degrees. Descent: 7020 - (4044 + 40) =...

Perusing the Chicago sectional, I ran across a surprising notation within the E-G airspace boundary transition around Platteville (PVB). Foreflight to the rescue. Switching Maps view from "Sectional" to "Aerial", and zooming in, revealed the truth: there really is a "M" constructed at ground...

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