N951CC

Here are a few pics of my new airplane.




Michelle and me in front of our new airplane. It's a 1979 Cessna 182Q Skylane with GPS, digital nav/comms, and air conditioning.




First time flying my new airplane (other than the test flight).

Flight Tracking

This is pretty cool, you can track my airplane when I go flying (see the link below). It looks like it bases it's info from flight controllers. This means that I'm only tracked when I'm on an IFR flight plan, and maybe tracked when I'm on a VFR flight plan with flight following. Since I'm not currently legal, I don't file IFR even when it's severe clear. I hope to regain my currency this summer.

By the way, the last flight that was recorded (as of 19 Jan 08), was the flight on 26 Dec 07, when Maynard and Duaine flew it from Detroit to Manitowoc. They flew it over for me to test fly and have a pre-purchase inspection completed. Since that all went well, I bought the airplane on the 27th. Merry X-mas to me!

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N951CC

First post

This is the first post of my first blog. Life today was pretty normal, slept in since it's the weekend. We did a bunch of housework. I finished installing the new garage door yesterday and prepped the dining room and kithcn walls for painting. We also got around to putting the first coat of paint on the kitchen (tan) and dining room (red). Hopefully this round of home improvements will be finished by the end of February. We still have to paint all of the interior rooms, then get everything into the garage to have the carpet replaced. We won't get much done yesterday because the Packers are playing!

I had been planning on flying back to WI this weekend to fly my airplane back to CA, but that didn't happen because the weather wasn't that great. When the skies were good, it was too cold (-4 deg) and windy. I'll try again in a few weeks.