Ben's FLOG

2008-07-03T21:03:00.000-07:00

2008-06-22T10:57:00.000-07:00

2008-06-22T10:32:00.000-07:00

2008-06-16T18:26:00.000-07:00

Finally got some good aerial shots on final into Boeing. The Vashon approach calls for a city flyby, which is fun.

2008-06-12T20:42:00.000-07:00

2008-06-02T21:03:00.000-07:00

A couple F/A-18s parked over by flight services. Looks like they're in town for training exercieses.

2008-06-02T20:59:00.000-07:00

An Alaska 37 on final next to where we park.

2008-06-02T20:57:00.000-07:00

Down at the billionaires boys club, next to flight services where we refuel.

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2008-05-30T14:50:00.000-07:00

Hmmm... guess who's flying the hoopdie out of here.

This CG plane was parked next to us while we were getting fuel, I thought it was cool. Might be a CRJ, but not sure.

2008-05-29T15:53:00.000-07:00

Here's the panel for the 150 we've been flying. Nothing advanced here, old school radials, VORs and radios. Everything straight out of the sixties. Yeah baby.

2008-05-29T15:46:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of interesting planes I saw on the rampt today. I beleive we have a lear up-top and an Albatross down below. I think my lord and savior Jimmy Buffett flies one of those, or at least writes about one in his book.

2008-05-24T16:46:00.000-07:00

The green & white 172 is called the "Ghost Ship." It was parked/unused next to our planes for about four years. When our club-owner finally inquired about its status he learned that the owner had bought the plane for his daughter, a young CFI who loved flying out of BFI. Unfortunately the woman died tragically in a plane crash somewhere in Oregon. The Dad evidentally was too sad to deal w/ his daughters plane and continued paying for the parking space. Anyway, our club bought & repaired it. Now it's used for IFR flights.

2008-05-24T16:36:00.000-07:00

CFI Al Brashear w/ his C150 tail dragger, he parks it up at Paine, but decided to fly it down for our lesson today.

2008-05-24T16:18:00.000-07:00

N3198J. This is the little C150-G we pack into everyday. When the tanks are full we're barely legal in terms of weight. I don't eat breakfast before practice as not to create an unsafe situation.

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2008-05-24T16:02:00.000-07:00

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KBFI NE parking looking south to Rainier. The flight museum is just out of the shot on the right. On the left, there is a helicopter school out of frame, a couple fractional carriers (note the Lear), a ramp for DHL, and a smörgåsbord of other planes stretching all the way down the field. Last week there was a rack of F/A-18s parked behind the yellow DHL 767 on the left. On Friday, one was taxiing out to take off, and missed the A-1 taxiway which you can see in the middle of the picture, and he ended up getting stuck in general aviation parking, about where I am standing for this picture. He had a devil of a time turning that ship around, and his thrust blew all of our charts and crap all over the place.