Year: 2013

The ceiling just kept coming down as we started towards Killarney, so when we saw Bar River Airport we decided that enough was enough. Here I’m on final for 110. Show Full Size Photo

We’re leaving Sault Ste Marie and the visibility looks OK to the north east. Tom is in the top of frame and of course the lake freighter steaming out to Lake Huron. We are over […]

We are now about 5 hours from home and with, what we thought was improving weather to the east we punched in Killarney. We anticipated that the ceiling along the shore would be about 1500′ […]

The ceiling was 1000′ with 5 miles visibility, we were in contact with Toronto Centre and they pasted us off to the Tower. The controller gave me “cleared to land” runway 12, just after I […]

We woke up in Manistique (Schoolcraft) to rain, thunder, fog and generally disappointing weather. We had to file with Canpass, US eAPIS, and then file a flight plan in order to fly across the border! […]

Schoolcraft has always been a preferred destination on the way west because there is a motel across the street and you can get a free shuttle to Kewadin Casino, just down the road. We went […]

There’s still lots of thermal activity in the area, so we had to pick a spot between 3 different cells that were in a line. Tom went left and I went right – so for […]

One of the reasons we chose to go the south shore of Lake Superior is because there are a lot more airports that you can use, if you need to divert. This is the Iron […]

The courtesy car in Ashland is a retired police car – which we think is a good idea. You keep the gas tank full and donate $7 for the use. We put in $1.35! You […]

You can see what remains of the “Ore Dock”, that was built in 1916 by the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad and it was 1,850 feet long. Show Full Size Photo

We’ve been to Ashland a few times so it was familiar for us. The famous “Ore Dock” is being torn down…..too bad it was such a landmark. You can see what remains, it’s the biggest […]

By staying right at the airport in McGregor, we thought we would be ready to go at first light, but it was not to be. We tried to depart twice before finally deciding that if […]

We were able to fly the hour and a half to McGregor where again we could get Mogas, use the courtesy car and in this case stay at the airport. For a town of 391, […]

Great airport! We were able to borrow a crew car to head into town to have lunch and wait for the weather to pass. For the first time on this trip we are on the […]

We are 20 NM out of Bemidji, with heavy rain between here and Duluth, on the west end of Lake Superior. We need to get through or around this front in order to head along […]