Situational Awareness: the perception of the elements in the environment, comprehension of their meaning, and projection of their status in the near future, crucial for safe and effective decision making.

In a beautifully crafted quarter sawn Oak secretary’s desk from the 1940’s is an old polaroid photograph of a boy and his father taken in the North Woods of Wisconsin.

Our morning started just past dawn with the thermometer reading minus-15 Fahrenheit. It was a beautifully cold day with the sun bright in the low southern sky beginning its trajectory east to west.

Timing is everything. The inflation that has ensued over the past several years created an opportunity to cash out of the Cherokee at a highly inflated price allowing me to recover all (most) of my “investment” made into the plane over 20 years of ownership.