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So I get back into Canada from three weeks in Bangladesh and one week in Vietnam. Great tour. Got good work done and looking forward to accomplish more. Off the Cathay Pacific flight in Toronto and catch the ground shuttle to Waterloo. Need to rest up for my own flying the next day. I get to Waterloo airport at 07:45 and the pull the aircraft from the FBO hanger. The autopilot is WORKING!! And the GPS data card is loaded with the most recent data, but COM 2 is now totally kaput. Oh well. I can always bring it back. File the flight plan (IFR) to Rockcliffe (see http://flightaware.com/live/flight/CFSWR/history/20130915/1245ZZ/CYKF/CYRO) and the tracklog shows 170 kts and 180 kts caused by a tailwind. Made it in 1 hour and 35 minutes (tracklog is wrong) and landed 30 minutes before they closed the airfield for an airshow that covered both Rockcliffe (CYRO) and Gatineau (CYND). Vintage Wings of Canada was doing some display stuff and they had a special guest coming to Gatineau. It was Chris Hatfield (most recently the ISS Commander), but I saw him on the ramp at Rockcliffe where I landed (my home drome), waiting for one of the Vintage Wings warbirds to drop in and pick him up and fly him over. So I got out of my aircraft while the line guys fueled it up and walked over to the staff that were standing around taking pictures with him and I got one too. Perfect day!! PS: As I sit here writing this, a couple of CF-18s from his old squadron just did a low and over.

You are invited to attend a Mooney Ambassador “get together” at the Rocky Mountain Airshow and Fly-in being held at Denver’s Rocky Mountain Metro Airport (KBJC) on August 16th, 17th and 18th. Here is a link to the Airshow’s Home Page. http://www.cosportaviation.org/home.html The Mooney Ambassador event will be extremely low key, but a great reason for flying your Mooney to the mile high city, hangar flying with other Mooney Pilots, watching the airshow from the ramp and explaining the benefits of General Aviation to the public and of course brag a little about our Mooney’s! You and your passengers’ admission to the airshow is free, if you bring your airplane with you. The details about the Fly-In and the NOTAM can be found here: http://www.cosportaviation.org/flyin.html The airport is providing a FREE breakfast to the first 100 pilots who preregister for the Fly-In. You can save time by preregistering online at: http://www.cosportaviation.org/forms/acregistration.html Hope to see your there!