CAP Glider Ops – A New O-Ride Pilot Debuts
Yesterday, I debuted as a cadet orientation pilot for CAP. Yeah, I’ve been a CFI and a rated CAP instructor pilot since last June, but I had only recently gotten around to getting qualified as a cadet...
View ArticleO-Flights, Dual Given, and the Camera Rig
Despite some pretty iffy-looking TAFs for the surrounding areas, FOD and I showed up at Owosso yesterday to find nicely flyable weather. Overcast between 5,000 and 11,000 feet, but good visibility and...
View ArticleThe Assignment
28 May 2016 C/SMSgt Nicholas Tupper, CAP Re: Expectations FOD: I understand that your language arts teacher has invited you to give me an assignment. The assignment is to tell you, in the form...
View ArticleThe Labor of Decades Repaid in Moments
Yesterday, I smelled burning leaves. I heard a steam locomotive’s whistle. I saw the colors of the changing leaves. All of these things visited me while sitting in the back of a glider flown by my son,...
View ArticleA Day at CAP MIWG Arctic Glider Ops
I spent yesterday at the Owosso airport (KRNP) in the fashion that is becoming ever more frequent: As a an instructor pilot for Civil Air Patrol’s glider program. Michigan Wing has one of the most...
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