Gary's Flight Journal

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I only hooked up the tail tie down camera and one inside the cockpit camera, I really wasn't feeling the need today. Since I was tracking the VOR I decided to knock out a VOR check, flying the Waterloo 171 degree radial to the IAF FEMOD. I had activated the pre-heats when I got up this morning since we planed to fly at 1pm.

VOR 52

VOR Approach Tail Cockpit 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Just north of the Selinsgrove VOR, Harrisburg called with the first change in routing. As I taxied off the runway, Moe greeted me on Unicom and directed me to a parking spot. I gave my tail number and destination. "Oh, I departed runway 33 after double checking that I was broadcasting the correct transponder code.

Transponder 52

Transponder Approach Clearance General Aviation 52

Photographic Logbook

JULY 6, 2024

We were cleared direct to College Park via the Westminster VOR (EMI). dove for pattern altitude, and managed the noise sensitive areas around the airport as best we could by entering the pattern on a midfield crosswind for runway 33. Tough room. It was such a trivial change that it did not impact our inbound heading.

Pilot 52

Pilot Flight Plan Air Traffic Control General Aviation 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Since then, the former airbase has seen its runways either truncated (9-27), deleted (15-33), or transformed into taxiways (4-22). Today, it is home to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum (CASM, part of the broader Ingenium collection of museums in Ottawa) housed within a 1988 facility built along former runway 22 (taxiway D).

Runway 52

Runway Flight Plan Clearance Weather 52

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

I pony-tail my long hair, disheveled by the tempest brewing across much of central Canada, and say, “We’re in for a treat today. I ignore him, select three VOR stations, determine our radial from each of them, draw it on the map, and determine our approximate position based on the intersection of the lines.

Weather 98

Weather Knot Pilot Distance Measuring Equipment 98

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Putting the front to our tails, we flew in IMC (instrument meteorological conditions) for 30 minutes before emerging under a clear blue sky. Tom and I filed via the Rockdale VOR, which was a starting point on the Nobbi Five arrival procedure used in the greater New York area. Final, runway 34, photographed from Two Six Romeo.

Clearance 52

Clearance Knot Instrument Meteorological Conditions Airplanes 52