One of the more direct and popular ways to cross the Rocky Mountains is over the Wolf Creek Pass. In this entry about safely crossing the mountains...
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In my continuing educational series of crossing the Rocky Mountains, up next is the southern route over La Veta, La Manga, and Cumbres passes. This...
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In what’s sure to be yet another hot topic in the city of Longmont, Colorado, the wholesale extermination of prairie dogs at the Vance Brand...
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In the FoxNews report in my previous story, it said the City of Longmont “planned to spend up to $14,000 to build a new barrier fence” to...
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The scourge of Longmont’s Vance Brand Airport, its prairie dogs not its vocal pilots, are now national news. FoxNews did a piece called...
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Previous poor planning and coordination of a flight over New York by an Air Force Boeing 747 (one of the Air Force One aircraft) just caused a...
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One would assume the obvious that interaction between wildlife and airplanes can be a dangerous thing. But you wouldn’t know that in Longmont,...
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The Federal Aviation Administration has a program with their Safety Team (acronym FAAST) that is worth checking in to. Their mission is: “To...
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The sad and tragic news came across Thursday that renowned pilot and author Sparky Imeson’s airplane wreckage was found after a two day search,...
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If anyone can make any logical sense out of this, I’m all ears. The Washington Times and several websites are reporting that President Obama...
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