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  • About me

    Retired USAF. Live in SE WA with my wife and and my 4-legged, 75lb backseater (Weimaraner)
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  • Interests

    Flying, hunting, fishing. Bucket list includes flying WA to AK and back...

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  • Aircraft (make - model)

    Peterson 260 SE (182 w/canard, IO-470, BRS)
Member since
Monday, 18 February 2019 21:52
Last online
6 months ago
  • Commish created a new forum topic Lake Buccaneer LA4 - 200
    Looking to do a SES rating...preferably in a Lake amphibian. Any recommendations for SES instruction in eastern Washington, eastern OR, or central ID? TIA
    2024-06-26 21:26:50
  • Commish commented on the photo IMG_2150
    Just departed 1W1 and headed east up the Columbia River over I-84. Bonneville dam is in the distance.
  • Commish commented on the photo IMG_0661
    Loading our aging Weimeraner "Magpie" into the back seat for the last time...on a flight from KPSC to 1W1 to visit our daughter. It was the last time she flew with us before cancer took her in Dec '18. Now have a 10 week old Weim who is either sleeping...or imitating an angry terrorist... :) Her...
  • Commish commented on the photo IMG_1520
    Canard adds some lift up front....major benefit is the tremendous reduction in down-load on the horizontal stabilizer. Flies slow and flat...great vis over the nose...
  • Commish commented on the photo IMG_1500
    My "new" ride.... purchased in August 2018 in AZ. Flew her from Phoenix to SE Washington...fuel stop at KLOL. The Peterson canard and 260hp IO-470 make a nice combination. BRS parachute system in the baggage area.
  • Commish commented on the photo IMG_0677
    The Alvord Desert off my right wing....never landed there but it is on my short list for this year...planning a camp out in August 2019 to see the meteor showers.
  • Commish commented on the photo IMG_0641
    Chelton panel in the new (new to me) converted C182P (Peterson 260SE). Still learning the panel...this is SE of Reno at about 10.5 headed northwest to WA.
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