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Morning all. Busy day for me. Gotta fly again if the clouds will let us. Right now the clouds are all 11,000 feet and thin so no problem. Lets hope it stays that way. I use an App on my phone called ForeFlight and it is pretty amazing. It has the charts for every airport in North America in it, can pull up the METARS (pilot speak for weather) for the airport, and it tracks our location, and hooks up to the airplanes ADS-B radio so we get real time traffic and we can "see" the other airplanes in the area that have ADS-B. As yet they don't HAVE to have it, but most aircraft do. And they cane "see" us. It is nice to get a visual. The ADS-B will send a voice warning to us if anything is within a mile at an altitude that is close. It shows traffic of the airlines at 35,000 feet and we can ignore them. There are lots of pipeline patrol aircraft flying at 500 feet and we can ignore them as well.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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