CASCADE FLYERS

HUDSON PLANE CRASH RECONSTRUCTED

Here is a cool reconstruction of the US Air plane crash on the Hudson River with CGI graphics and actual audio from ATC. You can click the image above or jump here to their website to watch.

NGPA FLORIDA FLING - REGISTER NOW!

When:	Friday, Mar 20, 2009 to Sunday, Mar 22, 2009
Where:	Marriott Hotel North

Registration:	Required By Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Payment:	Payment In Advance Only

Visit:            www.ngpa.org

FLY TO ORCAS, PAINE AND BOEING FIELD ON GOOGLE EARTH

David sent this file which was captured on his new GPS, the Bendix King AV8OR. He downloaded the flight data to Google Earth and then was able to re-fly the flight he flew with Rob the other day. This is incredible. It even shows Rob's pattern work at Paine Field.

Download KORS-KPAE-KBFI

You will need to install Google Earth, for free, then you can play the downloaded file.

CASCADE FLYERS MEMBER BUYS A NEW GPS UNIT

Increasing Safety with Situational Awareness.

After extensive research on GPS navigation units I chose the new Bendix/King AV8OR. With the lowest price I found of $639.00  www.marvgolden.com. I feel it's the best one out there for the money. For those familiar with the popular Garmin, what I like most in comparing the two, is it's simplicity. Garmin can often be intimidating with the many screens to choose from and the many steps necessary when you just want to enter an airport and fly to it. The AV8OR has a color touch screen making it incredibly easy to enter identifiers for either your flight plan or "direct to" entries and the capabilities of searching by such ways as entering a city name and getting a list of the airports and nav-aids associated with a city. It has both vertical and horizontal airspace markings and with a simple tap you can see the altitude limits of that airspace. Tap on a airport or nav-aid on the map and it gives you all the details. It has 9 user selectable data fields on the left for such things as Track data, Ground Speed, CDI display, a timer. It has both topical terrain or a profile view of terrain ahead. The database covers the entire US on one memory card. Information such as radio frequencies & runway lengths are there with the touch of a finger or the included stylus.

But the fun doesn't stop there. This GPS also has full feature street capabilities!! That's right, going on a trip somewhere, take the GPS with you, not so it doesn't get stolen, but so you can use it to navigate around town in your rental car. And even more fun is the IPOD like features. Download music, videos or eBook data to the unit for entertainment, just like an IPOD.

The unit also has XM Weather capabilities and now comes with traffic features similar to that found on the traffic functional G430.

Database upgrades are $35.00 each and are available every 28 days. But for basic situational awareness, one or two updates a year is satisfactory for me. The unit comes with a yoke mount, a car mount, an external antenna, a 12v power adapter, a soft case. However, the external antenna is not necessary as I have been able to receive more than the necessary satellites inside my home from just the internal antenna.

So if you have been considering a GPS to help improve your situational awareness for even the shortest of flights, I have to recommend the AV8OR from  Bendix-King. If you’d like to see mine, let me know and I can bring it to our next event. Happy and Safe Flying!! - David

DAVID SEES THE DREAMLIFTER FLY OVER

"I was standing outside in the back yard yesterday and the Dream Lifter flew directly over the house @ about 1500 feet on it's approach to PAE. Gave me a boner!! It's such a cool thing to see flying!!!"

PERSONAL MINIMUMS CHECKLIST

This checklist came from the FAA and is kind of a cool spin on thinking about personal minimums and personal comfort levels.

NORTHWEST AVIATION CONFERENCE THIS WEEKEND

PAN AM PROMO VIDEO FROM 1959

This is the way travel was meant to be!

DAVE & ROB FLY TO ORCAS

Dave and Rob took advantage of the great weather and flew Stewie (Cessna 172P) to Orcas Island on Saturday. Dave was able to use his new Bendix-King AV8TR GPS unit. They met up with Matt and had lunch at Vern's. On the way back to BFI Rob flew an approach into Paine Field, PAE. Reports are that all went well!

SEATTLE LUNCH FEB. 7TH AT THE HANGAR CAFE

We had a great lunch in Seattle on Saturday at The Hangar Cafe , in Georgetown next to Boeing Field. The cafe sits directly below short final to runway 13R at BFI, perfect for a very foggy morning in Seattle. Attendance was great! Russ, Matt, Cees, David, Bob, John, Steve, Evan, Joe, Chip G, Dave & Rob. Lots of networking, introductions and catching up. Thanks Justin and team for great service and food. We will see you again in April!