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Captain’s Blog – April 2021 Making Technology Our Friend

May 12, 2021 Captain's Blog No Comments
Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 19 in the month April, Earth Calendar year 2021. Technology is our friend and aviation has always been at the forefront of many innovative changes. Commercial flying is on the way to becoming totally automated. When one flies above and through the clouds in our air traffic control system, one relies ...
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Captain’s Blog – March 2021 One Year of Flying in a Pandemic

March 4, 2021 Captain's Blog No Comments
Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 18 in the month March, Earth Calendar year 2021. 11,100 ft. The view of the San Juan mountains is spectacular as a storm whips through the highest of the peaks. For a change I am not stressed about bobbing and weaving though the ethers, as I am comfortably ensconced in a cabin ...
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Captain’s Blog – February 2021

February 5, 2021 Captain's Blog No Comments
Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 5 in the month February, Earth Calendar year 2021. Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … drone! I first learned about drones from Janey’s dad who unfortunately just passed away at home in Cape Town. He was one of the most interesting men I have ...
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Captain’s Blog – October 2020 Flares In The Night

October 5, 2020 Captain's Blog No Comments
Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 5 in the month October, Earth Calendar year 2020. Flying an airplane can be most challenging. As can navigating, aviating, filming and talking to the camera in the cockpit, all at the same time. Add in finding a suitable place to land to throw down a sleeping pad, another new ...
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Captain’s Blog – August 2020 Camping at Johnson Creek Airstrip

August 6, 2020 Captain's Blog No Comments
Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 6 in the month August, Earth Calendar year 2020. The difference between virtual and real. Sometimes it’s a fine line as far as getting information across and sometimes it is just simply black and white. Sometimes you are engaged in creating a virtual educational tour of a proposed mine on ...
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Bears Ears Public Lands

Captain’s Blog – May 2020 Endangered Species Day & Colorado Public Lands Day

May 15, 2020 Captain's Blog No Comments
Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 15 in the month May, Earth Calendar year 2020. Endangered Species and Public Lands go hand in hand and we are celebrating these two issues this week in Colorado. I personally feel they are an integral part of a healthy and sustainable environment, including clean air and water, and critters ...
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Mount Gunnison and Mount Lamborn

Captain’s Blog – April 2020 Earth Day!

April 22, 2020 Captain's Blog No Comments
Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 22 in the month April, Earth Calendar year 2020. Social Distancing from an altitude of 2,000 ft. AGL (above ground level).50 Years of Earth Days! My, how time does fly. It was 50 years ago when Time Magazine published a photo of our planet Earth taken from space. During this ...
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Bears Ears Hunkering Down

Captain’s Blog – March 2020 Hunkering Down

March 30, 2020 Captain's Blog No Comments
Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 27 in the month March, Earth Calendar year 2020. Hunkering down: Waiting out the storm. Well I’ve done quite a bit of hunkering in my life. Everything from living in a snow cave for a couple of weeks waiting for a summit push to being grounded and watching an approaching ...
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Mount Sopris Winter

January 2020 – Dead Winter

February 5, 2020 Captain's Blog No Comments
Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 24 in the month January, Earth Calendar year 2020. It’s dead winter in the high country where we live and there is not much going on except snow, snow and more snow. That is wonderful for the mountains and rivers, and for those of us who ski, snowboard or are ...
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December 2019 – Decade’s End

December 30, 2019 Captain's Blog No Comments
Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 30 in the month December, Earth Calendar year 2019. As I write this I am heading to the airport to make sure the plane is plugged in and brushed off in anticipation of our next flight mission. Plugged in refers to utilizing an extension cord plugged into what they call ...
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