A couple of people have already asked me how I can feel safe flying if somebody of Bill Law’s years of experience can crash. A guy I know wrote this response to similar questions. It’s not exactly what I would have written, but it’s pretty close.
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Category: Revelation
Last Weekend, Part #2 – Ottawa to Ladysmith
I already wrote about flying from Rochester to Ottawa in a previous blog entry. The rest of the trip was a lot more of an adventure in some ways.
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Pictures from the flight up.
Some pictures to go along with my last blog entry:
Last Weekend, Part #1 – The flight
The mission was to get to Ottawa and points north. I was going to Maddy’s interment on Saturday, and spending some time with my kids on Sunday. I had booked the club’s Dakota, which is my favourite plane, but when the Lance became available I switched to it instead – the Lance is a bit faster, which is nice, but the main reason is that the club’s insurance company is looking to restrict who can use the Lance so it won’t hurt to have a lot of Lance hours on record.
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Bye bye birdy
I came home tonight to find my oldest step-daughter Stevie and her friend Lindsay had a tiny little sparrow in one of the spare bird cages downstairs. I guess even at 20 years old, the urge to help poor defenseless animals is still strong in young women. They’d found him hopping around the driveway. He was very very young and very tiny. He seemed almost paralysed with fear, not that I blame him. The girls had given him food and water, but he seemed too small for solid food.
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