Jeff DeFreest submitted this photo and note: “My bride, Kari DeFreest, trusty hound Maggie (Magneto), and I are on a quest to stay at all of the 140 public use cabins on the 17 million acre Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska. We use our Skywagon on Edo 2960s to get around this vast area of boreal rainforest and the Inside Passage to get to many fly-in lake cabins. This photo was taken at one of the two amazing USFS cabins on Sitkoh Lake. Maggie enjoys most any outdoor adventure, but is also very attuned to the stealthy approach of brown bears.”
Pilots
One Pilot’s View: Memorial flight
If someone has inspired you, or helped make your life better, thank them NOW while they can appreciate it, rather than speak kindly about them after they fly west (or east for that matter). Showing up at the funeral and telling the family what a great person the deceased was is not the same.
The ultimate game of chicken
A drone flown by the Honeywell IntuVue RDR-84K radar system recently triumphed in what company officials call the “ultimate game of chicken,” repeatedly swerving around intruder aircraft in a series of tests that are key to the future of pilotless aviation, according to Honeywell officials.
Registration open for Cessnas 2 Oshkosh
This will be the 17th mass arrival of Cessnas 2 Oshkosh, with training clinics beginning in mid-March 2022.
Garmin introduces inReach Mini 2
The satellite communication device can be paired with Garmin avionics and your phone to allow you to send messages, check weather, and more while out exploring the world.
Loose screw leads to engine quitting
I attempted to change fuel tanks from left to right. While passing the off position the valve stuck in the off position. It would not budge. The engine on my Mooney M-20 E Super 21 quit and I made an uneventful landing in a pasture.
Picture of the Day: A beautiful day in Maine
Tad Woodhull submitted this photo and note: “Tad Woodhull flying in his Arrow.”
Phillips 66 Aviation launches Carbon Offset Program
The new program is just part of Phillips 66 Aviation’s focus on sustainable aviation. The company plans to convert its San Francisco refinery into one of the world’s largest renewable fuels facilities, enabling it to produce sustainable products, including sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel, by 2024.
ATP Flight School opens new training center in Pittsburgh
The new location at Allegheny County Airport (KAGC) in West Mifflin, Pa., about 10 miles from downtown Pittsburgh, is ATP Flight School’s 70th nationwide.