It is a cold and cloudy Wednesday morning in the Willamette Valley. An evening cold front had left most of the low land dividing the Coastal and Cascade mountain ranges covered in a dense fog. Sitting next to the computer in the early morning shades of gray that seep through the window, I nervously log on to duat.com to check the forecast for nine o'clock, sixteen hundred hours zulu, d day, the scheduled time of my FAA check ride for private pilot was to begin. As the page slowly loads its…See More

It is a cold and cloudy Wednesday morning in the Willamette Valley. An evening cold front had left most of the low land dividing the Coastal and Cascade mountain ranges covered in a dense fog. Sitting next to the computer in the early morning shades of gray that seep through the window, I nervously log on to duat.com to check the forecast for nine o'clock, sixteen hundred hours zulu, d day, the scheduled time of my FAA check ride for private pilot was to begin. As the page slowly loads its…See More