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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 […]

We were above a scattered layer of low cloud that was at about 2000′. More rain up ahead though. Tom’s XM satellite weather on his Garmin. It’s very helpful to let us know if we […]

We were inside checking the weather, decided we could go to Bemidji, MN, walked outside and started laughing….it was raining here! We waited about 10 more minutes and took off. Show Full Size Photo

Stopping to clear US customs. You can see the border cut from the bottom right, through the runway and off to the east. Canadian Customs is on the left and US on the right. Show […]

We left Lyncrest, after phoning US Customs at Piney to make an appointment for about 10:30. The showers and haze continue to linger. It was relatively smooth at 1700′. Good thing it’s flat! Show Full […]

We landed about 6:30 on Friday night and there was hardly any activity at Lyncrest. I sat on a picnic table with my laptop and phone trying to find a hotel and transportation. Tom went […]

Lyncrest is on the southeast side of Winnipeg and has a grass runway, mogas, and a very friendly general aviation environment. You can see the perimeter highway in the top of the the frame. One […]

Well this certainly was a different view than the other shots I’ve taken over northern BC and the Yukon. Our next instruction from the tower was to turn direct Lyncrest (finally), start our descent after […]

As we went along towards Lyncrest, Winnipeg Terminal passed us on to the Tower. The controller, who was busy with all the jet traffic, first asked us to descend from 3500 to 2500 feet and […]

It was comforting being under the watchful eye of Winnipeg Centre as they followed us over the Southport (Portage Le Prairie) airport and then what we thought would be direct Lyncrest through the south side […]

The airports all look so great from the air. This was a short visit into Dauphin in order for us to plan our trip into Winnipeg. We are north west and wanted to go to […]

Roland Jenson and Allan Denesowych get ready to Christen the refurbished plane. There was a crew of about 10 people standing behind us, so I’m sure there was a pretty good hangar party after we […]