An ICOM IC-A24 handheld nav/com aviation radio. Nice backup to have on long cross-countries, and even on local flights, since Albuquerque International (Class C), Santa Fe (Class D) and Los Alamos (special restrictions) all require a radio to enter their airspace. And with Double Eagle II about to go Class D, a radio out would mean either waving at the tower in one of the Deltas to get lights or going to Belen. Neither are fun when you just want to land. Most of the radio was paid for from gift certificates Mom and Dad gave me for Christmas and my B-Day. Thanks Mom and Dad!
A fryer. Somehow it’s Pete’s fault, but it seemed like it would be fun to have and was only $20.00 at Target.
One Six Right, in principle a movie about the history of Van Nuys Airport (KVNY) but is just as much about the history of General Aviation in the United States. There’s a lot of beautiful birds in the movie, and it is extraordinarily well done.
My car went in for its 60,000 mile service today, as well as a new set of tires. She’s apparently aging well and there’s nothing big that needs to be done in the near future. Woo! We’ll ignore the 60,000 mile service waited until 65,000 miles on the car. Wow, almost 5 years and over 65,000 miles. Doesn’t seem like it’s been that long!
Weather has been sucking lately. We didn’t get to fly up once this week and it looks like next week is going to be just as bad. Hopefully we’ll catch up on some squawks while we can’t fly.
FInally getting around to some much needed web server maintenance on marvin, the server that hosts bbarrett.org. Trying to setup some of the services like bug tracking that worked at one time or another…