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		<title>Moving forward.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an airplane, to make it go up, first you have to make it go forward. It&#8217;s kind of the same way with life. If you stand still or constantly look back, it&#8217;s impossible to make progress. You have to move forward, without fear and with enough power, until you feel the wind rush over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromtherightseat.com/?p=301</link>
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		<title>BOOEY inbound.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meet Booey, my new four legged copilot. We adopted him from the Washington Animal Rescue League last weekend, and brought him home last night. He&#8217;s a 4-month-old Beagle mutt, with white socks on his feet and a brown and black coat. Still very much a puppy, Booey is cautiously curious but adapting well to his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromtherightseat.com/?p=295</link>
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		<title>Grass roots.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I make my living studying and practicing the art of instrument flying in technically advanced aircraft, last week I immersed myself in the other end of the general aviation pool: flying low and slow over corn fields in light sport aircraft and ultralights. It was, to use a well worn but very appropriate cliche, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromtherightseat.com/?p=289</link>
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		<title>Enabling cloud addiction.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This is so friggin&#8217; cool,&#8221; Tom said as he flew through low clouds, mist and rain over the Eastern Shore of Maryland with me this morning. I have to agree with him &#8212; it was very cool to see the rain on the windscreen and hear it pelt the wings, to cruise through the clouds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromtherightseat.com/?p=284</link>
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		<title>The slow, subtle death of a critical system.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday afternoon I sat at my desk using Microsoft Flight Simulator, attempting to generate an image of the instrument panel of a single-engine airplane in flight, after it had suffered the failure of its vacuum pump. I needed this image for a training module I&#8217;m developing. The timing of this project could not have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromtherightseat.com/?p=275</link>
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		<title>Why do I fly? It&#8217;s simply, complicated.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t you ever stopped to ask yourself, why do you do what you do? If you&#8217;re a doctor, why do you seek to cure the sick? If you&#8217;re a lawyer, why do you seek to defend the innocent and punish the guilty? If you&#8217;re a pilot, why do you fly? Why did I pack my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromtherightseat.com/?p=265</link>
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		<title>He at least could have told me the score&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I flew north up the east shore of the Hudson River at around 12:30 p.m. on Friday, the Newark Tower controller advised me that I&#8217;d have to steer about a mile to the west, over Teterboro Airport, to avoid a temporary flight restriction over Yankee Stadium. Apparently the Bombers were playing an afternoon home [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromtherightseat.com/?p=260</link>
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		<title>A taste of fall.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting in the pilot&#8217;s lounge in Hagerstown, Maryland right now, while my IFR student has a mechanic check something on his airplane. The short flight here from Fort Meade was beautiful this morning, with crystal clear visibility and smooth, cool air. After a very hot and humid start to the summer, this is quite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromtherightseat.com/?p=257</link>
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		<title>Free bird (again).</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I knew he was ready three flights ago, but the weather just hasn&#8217;t been cooperating. This morning, it finally did, and so with a light breeze blowing across Runway 34, Scott took to the sky by himself while I watched from the shade of a big corporate hangar. He soloed last summer but hasn&#8217;t flown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromtherightseat.com/?p=256</link>
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		<title>The power of positive energy.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I could have titled this post, &#8220;A new rating&#8221; or &#8220;Passing a check ride,&#8221; but that&#8217;s not really what happened yesterday. Yes, it is true that I did fly a Piper Seminole with an FAA designated examiner, and I passed the required practical test to earn a new multiengine rating on my commercial pilot&#8217;s certificate. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromtherightseat.com/?p=252</link>
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