Beautiful British Columbia

The license plates of Canada’s most southwesterly province proclaim “Beautiful British Columbia.” And how. A verdant land of lush forests, tall mountains, and water, still and moving. And a country of solicitous and friendly people, all of it beckoning in the time of Covid. We sidestepped the summer airline travel laments by saddling up our Cirrus—N711QT—for the 1017 nautical mile flight each way between…

All in a day’s work

Some backstory is needed for this.  On Wednesday my airplane owner partner, Mason, slammed at his SwimLabs business, asked if I could help by returning a tech consultant named Al that he’d brought down from the Bay Area.  Let’s see, a fair weather day, and my professional aviation chops are needed to fly to San Francisco?  Oh, twist my arm. This provided another opportunity—I…