On Thu, 2 Jan 2004, Mackfly wrote:

I just had to fo fly. Temp. at 52 degrees F--did four glider tows and took the
last glider flight up for a little acro. Felt good and a good way to start off
a new year. mac

A great way to start the new year!

I had a 172 booked all day; I was planning on flying to Hope (CYHE - about
90 minutes away) with my brother & his girlfriend to visit a friend of
hers. Hope was NOTAM'd closed because of snow on the runway, though - no
snow clearing equip. at that grass runway!

So we did a shorter flight, 30 min each way to Nanaimo, just to get off
the ground. Nice flight - first time I've flown while there was snow on
the ground!

One amusing equipment failu the Cessna OAT thermometer in GSN seems to
have died; it was reading 30+ C all the time today. The needle slipped up
to over 50 just after we landed at home again... It wasn't more than 5 C
on the ramp, and colder aloft...

Happy New Year, everyone.

Brian - PP-ASEL/Night -